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Damn right it's worth a lawsuit. You can discuss my copyrighted content on your blog. Just don't republish it there without my permission.

Here's the thing. If you put your hand in my wallet, then I want you to draw back a bloody stump. (I'm paraphrasing Harlan Ellison, who's notorious for suing the many people who have infringed on his...

Yeah, I saw that. But I didn't see any actual examples of pages that brought about a suit just because they quoted a few lines. Also, another article from Reason on this same subject said that so far...

So far, I haven't seen anyone post a link to an article that caused a lawsuit because it included a "snippet". The closest was the mention in one article about an article that quoted four out of six...

Yeah, of course the whole issue is about money. Money is the whole issue behind copyrights, anyway. When someone owns the copyright to something they've created, then they're entitled to be paid if...

Well, yeah--of course hobby bloggers should inform themselves about copyright law. I don't even understand the whole idea of "taking an article with honest intentions." That's like taking my wallet...

Yeah, but they're not suing people who are posting one and two paragraph quotes in forums, Jeremy. They're suing people who are using complete articles.

Quoting a paragraph here and there is...

According to the Reason magazine article, the people and companies who are being sued aren't posting "quotes from articles"; they're republishing entire articles.

I'd suggest that if your forum is...

Wouldn't the easiest way to protect yourself from a company like Righthaven be to just not post copyrighted articles unless you have the permission of the copyright holder? (Or to not let your...