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No Lawyers: Stephens Media LLC, RightHaven LLC, and Bloggers

Written By : Melissa Clouthier

The newspapers owned by Stephens Media LLC are listed below by state. As the Wired article notes, many of these papers will be using the “services” of RightHaven LLC. As for me, I plan to never link to any of these papers. The only paper they own in North Carolina just happens to be the newspaper from the town where I was born. The only regret that I have is that I will be missing out on some of the columns by Vin Suprynowicz. Oh, well,

Arkansas

* Booneville Democrat – Booneville, AR
* Cabot Star-Herald – Cabot, AR
o Cabot Weekly
* Carlisle Independent – Carlisle, AR
* Charleston Express – Charleston, AR
* Fayetteville Free Weekly – Fayetteville, AR
* Greenwood Democrat – Greenwood, AR
* Hot Springs Village Voice – Hot Springs Village, AR
* Jacksonville Patriot – Jacksonville, AR
* Lonoke Democrat – Lonoke, AR
* Morning News of Northwest Arkansas – Springdale, AR
* Paris Express – Paris, AR
* Pine Bluff Commercial – Pine Bluff, AR
o The Market Place
o The White Hall Progress
* Press Argus Courier – Van Buren, AR
o Alma Journal
* Sherwood Voice – Sherwood, AR
* Southwest Times Record – Fort Smith, AR
* The Maumelle Monitor – Maumelle, AR
* The Times – North Little Rock, AR
* Van Buren County Democrat – Clinton AR
* Washington County Newspapers
o The Lincoln Leader
o The Prairie Grove Enterprise
o The Farmington Post

Hawaii

* 808 Classifieds – Hilo, HI
* Big Island Weekly – Hilo, HI
* Hawaii Tribune-Herald – Hilo, HI
* North Hawaii News – Waimea, HI
* West Hawaii Today – Kailua-Kona, HI
o North Hawaii News
o Big Island, HI
o Westside Weekly

Missouri

* McDonald County Newspapers
o The Anderson Graphic The Goodman News-Dispatch
o The McDonald County News-Gazette
o The McDonald County Press
o The Southwest City Republic
o El Tiempo

Nevada

* Ely Times – Ely, NV
* Eureka Sentinel – Eureka, NV
* Las Vegas Review-Journal – Las Vegas, NV
o View Neighborhood Newspapers
o El Tiempo
o Las Vegas CityLife
o Las Vegas Business Press
o Rebel Nation
o New Homes Guide
o Luxury Las Vegas
o Southern Nevada Home And Garden Magazine
o Nifty Nickel
o Neighborhood Shopper
o Jobs Today Weekly
* Pahrump Valley Times – Pahrump, NV
* Tonopah Times-Bonanza – Tonopah, NV

North Carolina

* Courier-Tribune – Asheboro, NC

Oklahoma

* Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise – Bartlesville, OK
* Pawhuska Journal-Capital – Pawhuska, OK

Tennessee

* The Daily Herald – Columbia, TN
o The Advertiser News Of Spring Hill And Thompson’s Station
o Franklin Life
o Brentwood Life

Texas

* Anna-Melissa Tribune – Anna, TX
* Herald Democrat – Sherman, TX
o Grayson County Shopper
* Lake Texoma Life – Van Alstyne, TX
* Prosper Press – Prosper, TX
* Van Alstyne Leader – Van Alstyne, TX

Washington

* The Daily World – Aberdeen, WA
o The North Coast News
o The South Beach Bulletin
o East County News
* The Montesano Vidette – Montesano, WA

If you link them, you’ll be sued for copyright infringement. If you quote from them, you’ll be sued, too. Avoid them like the plague they are.

Mahatma

If you link them, you'll be sued for copyright infringement. If you quote from them, you'll be sued, too.

Sounds like you speak from experience. Can you share any details?

anwatkins

If you follow the original link, there is a story there about it happening. It did not happen to Melissa (I think), but it has happened many times (according to the lawyer filing the suits, “Hundreds of lawsuits…are already in the works….”). Maybe the best quote from the lawyer is:

“We perceive there to be millions, if not billions, of infringements out there.”

And to top it off, that is their business model. This may be a shining example of why we need something like a “loser pays” system for torts. I know you probably do not agree with that, but hundreds to thousands of cases like this is why the court system is so clogged up now.

Just my $0.02, and worth maybe half that.
http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

I'm only a little bit surprised that in your haste to make another of your clever snarky comments, you failed to note the error in what she said.

Linking to copyrighted material isn't the problem – it's quoting from it without permission that is. Linking to the material actually does the copyright holder the favour of driving up traffic at their site and it doesn't entail using even one word of their copyrighted material.

But then again, you've demonstrated time and again that content and analysis just aren't your forté.

Jaeger1121

The only issue I have with that statement is that the Las Vegas Review Journal does exactly the same thing. Their editor routinely blogs and copy/pastes from other websites in his blog, which is the exact same complaint Righthaven alleges. Apparently it's ok to copy/paste another site's work but not ok to have the same done to yours.

http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

Awesome business model. Bloggers who might otherwise have excerpted a bit from these obscure papers, meaning people will quite often click the link over to the paper's website and read the whole story, maybe stick around and read some more, driving up traffic, will now ignore these papers. Especially local bloggers, who will look elsewhere. Awesome, what with newspaper circulation taking a nose dive.

I can see media outlets suing when most, or the whole article, is excerpted. I learned how much to excerpt from watching what John did, Harvey at Bad Example, and a few others early on. Lord knows, sometime I want to excerpt a whole lot more, but, one just doesn't do that. Take a small portion, make your comments, and, if necessary, send them over to the original source for the rest. Someone worked hard to write the story (even if half of what comes from the big MSM players is more wishful thinking), they should get their hits.
kbingh

We as bloggers need to let these papers know we will no longer provide any links to these papers. These news papers are just as sleazy as Righthaven for associating with this predatory company.
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