Wired has this story about Righthaven, the company that contracted with various newspapers to seek out blogs that re-print newspaper stories in full, and then sue those blogs. For example, Righthaven sued Independent Political Report, and IPR had to pay several thousand dollars so that Righthaven would drop the lawsuit.
As the Wired story explains, one blogger fought back in federal court, and won a ruling that it had not violated copyright, and won $34,000 in attorneys fees against Righthaven. Thanks to How Appealing for the link.
Can’t say I’ll be sorry if they go belly up.