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21 Jun 2010, 1:01 pm by Darla Jackson
” However, as explained in TechDirt’s Amazon ‘Friends’ Patent Office: Gets Social Networking Patent, Amazon has been awarded only a continuation patent. [read post]
17 Nov 2019, 9:01 am by Walter Olson
That isn’t how HIPAA works [Tim Cushing, Techdirt, Dallas transit case; earlier on Denver case] Tags: Dallas, HIPAA, photography, police [read post]
26 Mar 2014, 9:15 pm by Walter Olson
[Timothy Geigner, TechDirt] Tweet Tags: Illinois, photography, privacy, surveillance“Illinois Supreme Court Overturns Insane Recording Laws” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 3:23 pm
  From Techdirt: there's at least one obstacle standing in the way of the elimination of the white pages: laws in some states that require the company to publish and deliver a residential directory to every one of its customers.I guess there are silly laws dealing with all sorts of issues. [read post]
10 May 2008, 1:33 am
From Techdirt, 'He does a very nice job ripping apart the 'property rights' arguments that some, especially some libertarians, use in favor of patents, explaining why that doesn't make sense. [read post]
9 May 2008, 6:33 pm
From Techdirt, 'He does a very nice job ripping apart the 'property rights' arguments that some, especially some libertarians, use in favor of patents, explaining why that doesn't make sense. [read post]
27 Jul 2006, 3:24 pm
All the news today reports that Kazaa has settled with the American Music Industry, agreeing to pay $US115 million ($A151 million) and convert to a legal business model with licensing arrangements to be negotiated with record labels (see The Age here, Washington Post here, Techdirt here) Now I can't help but wonder whether we have several Federal Court judges who, having spent [read post]
26 Apr 2014, 10:10 am by Walter Olson
To curtail parody, stop being so parody-able in the aftermath of your decision to send cops after your Twitter critics [Radley Balko, more, earlier] Related: “Watch Repairer Goes Legal Over Tame Yelp Review, Streisand Effect Takes Over” [Geigner, TechDirt] Tweet Tags: Illinois, parody, Streisand effect, TwitterAdvice for Peoria mayor Jim Ardis is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
29 Oct 2017, 8:58 am by Walter Olson
” [Keith Lee/Associates Mind, Ken at Popehat, Mike Masnick/TechDirt] Tags: subpoenas, Twitter DoJ subpoenas Twitter accounts that were tweeted at is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 6:05 am by David Canton
  As Mike Masnick of Techdirt puts it, “That won’t be abused at all…” [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 6:31 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
TechDirt features the recent patent infringement brought by Apple against Sanho.In the old days, one remembers the HP printing cartridge wars, and more recently the disposable 35mm cameras battles.As to "MagSafe" connectors, IPBiz notes its 2007 model was so poorly designed it failed and IPBiz had to lay out bucks for a rather differently designed replacement. [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 3:26 pm by Ron Coleman
Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe story’s all over the Net, but here’s as good a take on it as any, from Mike Masnick at Techdirt: Derrick Coetzee, a software developer and an administrator of Wikimedia Commons, the media repository for Wikipedia is being threatened by the National Portrait Gallery in London. [...] [read post]
17 Oct 2006, 4:14 pm
So if you are interested, go check out: Pete Black's original postJoshua GansMeThe Age story Techdirt's [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 7:52 am by Ron Coleman
Techdirt explains: BoingBoing has the latest story of trademark insanity, where a “charity” focused on the rare, but apparently serious disease of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH), is trying to trademark [sic] the phrase “Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia [...] [read post]
22 Jan 2013, 6:26 am by marcorandazza
Masnick, over at TechDirt has a philosophy that, if you oversimplify it, boils down to “even if people give your stuff away for free, you can still make money charging for it if you give superior service. [read post]
12 May 2014, 4:38 am by Walter Olson
“US Patent Office Grants ‘Photography Against A White Background’ Patent To Amazon” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt] Critics suspect there is prior art. [read post]
26 Apr 2016, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
[Timothy Geigner, TechDirt] Tags: beer and brewers, Germany, trademarks Trademark fight over “Hofbrau” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
8 Oct 2017, 8:56 am by Walter Olson
” [Michael Lee, Morrison Lee via Timothy Geigner, Techdirt] Tags: copyright, Twitter “Football Coach Sued for Copyright Infringement Over Retweet” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
30 Aug 2014, 8:44 am by Walter Olson
The retreat came after Mike Masnick at TechDirt and Joe Mullin at ArsTechnica pointed out some of the reasons the attempt might be problematic, among them that the challenge had been used widely by other charities before it caught on in August in connection with ALS. [read post]