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US Court Dings Digiprotect On Mass Lawsuit Filings; Worries About Pressure On Those Sued To Settle


good-rulings dept
Mon, Apr 18th 2011 12:53pm
Mike MasnickPaul Alan Levy points us to a good ruling in the Southern District of NY district court concerning yet another mass infringement lawsuit filing (pdf and also embedded below), this time by Digiprotect. The ruling touches on a few different issues, and actually may be quite useful, in light of some other recent rulings. Also, if you recognize the name Digiprotect, that may be because it was heavily involved in many of these kinds of mass infringement lawsuits in Europe, helping, in some ways, to pioneer the strategy of suing a ton of people in the hopes that many will settle. I hadn t realized it had set up shop in the US as well, but apparently it has. In this case, it appears to have taken on a Righthaven-like strategy, rather than a US Copyright Group strategy. That is, it actually purchased the copyrights, in some form or another, in order to sue, rather than just acting as the lawyers for a copyright holder. I ....

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