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Copyright ambulance chaser targets Drudge

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Righthaven, the Las Vegas copyright enforcement company, didn’t think much of Internet gossip monger Matt Drudge’s use of an image from the one of its clients so it sued The Drudge Report over use of an illustration from The Denver Post.

Filed in U.S. District Court in Nevada on Nov. 18, the company shows an “illustration” is really a Denver Post photo of a TSA officer patting down a passenger at Denver International Airport.

“Mr. Drudge has willfully engaged in the copyright infringement of the work,” the lawsuit claims.  Right haven also sued a companion site “DrudgeReportArchives,” which Drudge claims he does not operate.

Righthaven wants $150,000 and forfeiture to both drudgereport.com and drudgereportarchives.com domain names — a common tactic in their copyright claims.

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DOUG THOMPSON

DOUG THOMPSON

Doug Thompson published his first story and photo at age 11 -- a newspaper article about racism and the Klan in Prince Edward County, VA, in 1958. From that point on, he decided to become a newspaperman and did just that -- reporting news and taking photos full-time at his hometown paper, becoming the youngest full-time reporter at The Roanoke Times in Virginia in 1965, and spent most of the past 58+ years covering news around the country and the globe. After a short sabbatical as a political operative in Washington in the 1980s, he returned to the news profession. Today, he is a contract reporter/photojournalist for Lee Enterprises, shoots news and sports video for area TV stations, and owns Capitol Hill Blue.
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