It looks like the gig may be up for Righthaven LLC, the "copyright troll" that filed 275 copyright infringement lawsuits against website owners, bloggers and even message board posters without actually owning the copyrights in question.

It's becoming increasingly obvious that the business model of Righthaven LLC was, in fact, very wrong - evidenced by the fact that it has been ordered to pay nearly $120,000 in attorney fees and court costs to the defendant in one of its failed copyright infringement suits.

Apparently hewing to the old adage that the best defense is a good offense, Righthaven is vigorously arguing in support of a motion it has filed seeking leave to amend the complaint in one of the many copyright infringement suits it has pending before the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.  Righthaven LLC v. Pahrump Life et al.

As famously said by Kenny Rogers, “ya gotta know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away…”. (Righthaven, LLC. V. Buzzfeed Inc. et al.)

In the last, suspense-filled episode of this long-running (7 years) daytime legal soap opera, the jury had returned a verdict in favor of MGA, awarding it custody of the little Bratz and $88.4 million in damages (see previous blog posts Pass the Popcorn and Soap Opera Summary). In the closing moments of the show, Mattel, professing “disappointment” with the verdict, vowed to appeal.

One of the most profitable – if not culturally elevating – new movie releases this season is “The Hangover Part II,” which includes a character, played by actor Ed Helms, who wakes or sobers up to find that he has a tattoo on his face identical to the one on the face of boxer Mike Tyson. While movie-goers may consider this hilarious, “tattoo artist” S. Victor Whitmill, the creator of Tyson’s tattoo, has failed to see the humor in it. Indeed, he sued Warner Brothers for copyright infringement and filed a motion seeking a preliminary injunction barring the release of the movie.

For those readers who may have missed the latest episode in the long-running legal soap-opera, Bryant v. Mattel Inc., we provide the following summary.

In this, the THIRD of our blogs on the Lime Wire copyright infringement litigation (see Real Money and A Resounding Victory), we find lawyers who previously argued over TRILLIONS of dollars now bickering over a measly few hundreds of thousands.

It is not often that a defendant in a lawsuit deems it a victory that the damages it will be ordered to pay will be measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars and not in the trillions. (Arista Records LLC et al. v. Lime Group LLC et al.)

Well folks, we have a new winner in our Chutzpah In Litigation contest. (Fairey et al. v. The Associated Press)