1st Circuit Affirms: Copyrights Conveyed To Gripe Website

(October 12, 2017, 11:49 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — The First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 11 upheld findings by a Massachusetts federal judge that a disgruntled civil litigant conveyed a nonexclusive license to the “Ripoff Report” website when he clicked a box acknowledging that a user who posts on the site agrees to give the site’s owner an “irrevocable right” to display the posting (Small Justice LLC, et al. v. Xcentric Ventures LLC, Nos. 15-1506, 16-1085, 1st Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 19866)....