Righthaven copyright auction extended due to lack of interest

[Newsjock]

Source: Vegas Inc (Las Vegas Sun)

With buyers not exactly beating down the door for Righthaven LLC’s trademark and certain copyrights, an auction for those items was extended Wednesday.

Lara Pearson, a Northern Nevada attorney appointed by a federal judge to seize and sell Righthaven’s property to satisfy creditors owed $188,927, said the auction on eBay would be extended past the initial Wednesday afternoon expiration time.

Pearson said the auction would continue through Friday, but declined comment on whether she would lower the $100 opening bids for the 18 copyrights, which cover two adult movies, some non-newspaper sports betting material and a Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial.

... As of Wednesday afternoon, no one had bid on the copyrights and just two bids had been placed for the trademark. The high bid for the trademark stood at $510 on Wednesday afternoon.

Read more: http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2012/may/02/scant-interest-so-far-auction-righthaven-copyright

[MineralMan]

1. I think Skinner should buy it, and redirect any website hits to DU.

That would be ironic justice.

[Newsjock]

2. The domain was already sold earlier

The domain http://righthaven.com now points to a "spineful" hosting service. This auction is just for the U.S. trademark.

[MineralMan]

3. Oh. Never mind, then. It was a thought, though.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. I hope no one tells Gingrich about this ...

or he'll start campaigning again.