Righthaven LLC v. PLAN [1]

Righthaven LLC, a Las Vegas company that is the assignee of copyrights in certain articles that first appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal and that is affiliated with the Review-Journal's owner Stephens Media LLC, filed a copyright infringement [2] lawsuit against the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada ("PLAN") and Robert Peterson, PLAN's webmaster, on May 4, 2010.

The complaint [3], which Righthaven filed in federal district court in Nevada, alleges that Peterson, on behalf of PLAN, copied and displayed the full text of two articles from the Review-Journal, as well as "substantial and significant portion[s]" of four additional Review-Journal articles without permission. Printouts of the articles as they appear on the PLAN website are attached as exhibits to the Complaint, and show that each of the articles appear under the "Press/Publications" tab of the PLAN website and references PLAN's political activities.