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Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

The form is legit, it is from the copyright.gov website:
http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agent.pdf

The article and a lawyer I talked to said that in order to be eligible for protection under the DMCA you must register an agent using this form, it is not enough to simply have a take down agent and instructions in your terms of service even though most admins seem to think this is the case.

Agent? What do you mean by agent?

But how does this prevent a lawsuit?

Its like trying to sell me horsecrap, and not tell me whats in it

It seems logical that at some point the tactics used by Righthaven LLC. will be found to be unlawful, and no longer of consequence, but until such a time as this occurs, it is prudent to be aware of the 'clients' that Righthaven represents when you choose to cite information for any means of publication...What does this mean? It means one day some attorney is going
to have some big jingles and stand up to them misusing the justice system for financial gain.

In my opinion if they had ever run across me in such a manner, I would sue them for abuse, and fraud.
They outright knew when they purchased these article rights that they were out on the internet, and
sites had these articles and can prove by post date that they were there before their purchase of the rights,
at best they should have been sent a warning to remove said articles, this is clearly abuse of the justice
system, fraud, and maybe some other crimes as well...Someone will stand up to them one day, if they havent already.