Steven A. Gibson
Righthaven LLC was a copyright holding company founded in early 2010, which entered agreements from its partner newspapers after finding that their content had been copied to online sites without permission, in order to engage in litigation against the site owners for copyright infringement. The lawsuits were heavily criticized by commentators, who describe the activity as copyright trolling and the company as a "lawsuit factory". Righthaven LLC's CEO, Steven Gibson, was a partner in the Las Vegas office of American law firm Dickinson Wright and regularly spoke to the media about Righthaven.
As of November 2011, the company's assets were subject to confiscation by the US Marshals Service due to expired debts from legal fees to a successful defendant. In January 2012, its domain name, righthaven.com, was sold at auction to help satisfy its debts. In March 2013, Stephens Media bought back what copyrights they had transferred to Righthaven, allowing the Righthaven Receivership Estate to pay off legal fees.
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