“The issues about copyright are real. But the idea that you would hire someone on an — essentially — success fee to run around and sue people at will who may or may not have infringed as a way of protecting yourself … does not reflect how news is created and disseminated in the modern world.”

• John Paton, new chief executive of MediaNews Group, publisher of the Denver Post and 50 other newspapers, on why signing on copyright troll Righthaven was a 'dumb idea.'

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