Elecronic Frontier Foundation :: Late Friday, the federal district court in Nevada issued a declaratory judgement (pdf) that makes is harder for copyright holders to file lawsuits over excerpts of material and burden online forums and their users with nuisance lawsuits.
The judgment found that Democratic Underground did not infringe the copyright in a Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper article when a user of the online political forum posted a five-sentence excerpt, with a link back to the newspaper's website.
Continue to read Kurt Opsahl, www.eff.org
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