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12 May 2015, 9:05 pm
” [Mike Masnick, TechDirt; Pete Bigelow, AutoBlog] Comments deadline May 19 on proposed Indian Child Welfare Act regulations; American Academy of Adoption Attorneys files comments warning they go beyond statute, will harm kids [related group, earlier and general] Asbestos lawsuits are “economic engine” of rural Edwardsville, Ill. [read post]
25 Sep 2019, 3:01 am
“Small claims court for copyright” idea, now moving rapidly through Congress, could create a new business model for troll claimants [Mike Masnick, TechDirt; EFF on CASE Act] “If Boston is weirdly NOT full of good restaurant/bar/cafes for its size, and if people don’t want to stay after they hit 26 or so, these throttled [liquor] licenses are one of the real structural reasons why. [read post]
2 May 2021, 4:49 am
Prefatory note: my hacker contact, BlueDragon72, who totally isn’t TechDirt’s Tim Cushing, sent me this today. [read post]
15 Nov 2006, 6:52 am
"Just a short reminder that we're all hopeless monkeys trapped inside one giant National Geographic special, via TechDirt [links below are from original post]: "Well, it appears some things don't change much. [read post]
21 Nov 2018, 2:55 am
“A Decade After Realizing It Can’t Threaten A Critic Online, UCLA Returns To Threaten A Critic Online” [Mike Masnick, TechDirt; Adam Steinbaugh, FIRE] “D.C. [read post]
21 Aug 2007, 7:03 pm
Techdirt, which blogged on this incident, rightfully labeled Google's trademark claim as totally bogus. [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 9:05 pm
Joe Gliniewicz, suspended 5 times before faking his suicide as death in the line of duty, also illustrates how hard it is to fire a public employee [Scott Reeder/Chicago Sun-Times, reprint at Reboot Illinois] More on campaign to extend hate crime laws to cover assaults on police [Tim Cushing/TechDirt, earlier here] If cops in bad shootings can’t be prosecuted, is it too much to ask at least that they be fired? [read post]
29 Oct 2019, 9:16 am
” [Justin Price, Arizona Republic; Tim Cushing, TechDirt] Although the Supreme Court’s Brady doctrine requires prosecutors to inform defense counsel of evidence undermining the credibility of police witnesses, the right can amount to little if matters are so arranged that past instances of officer dishonesty never come to their attention in the first place [Steve Reilly and Mark Nichols, USA Today] In Baltimore, following the conviction of several officers in the notorious Gun… [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 2:57 am
In latest of string of courtroom losses for media, Raleigh News & Observer hit with nearly $6 million libel verdict [Corey Hutchins, CJR] Profile of Charles Harder, newly prominent attorney in suits against media [Hollywood Reporter] Following coverage of taco trademark dispute, lawyer demands takedown of image on news story [TechDirt] “California Supreme Court will decide: Can court order Yelp to take down defendant’s post, though Yelp wasn’t even a party to the… [read post]
23 Apr 2016, 6:22 pm
TechDirt: “On [April 19, 2016], the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released some redacted versions of three previously secret FISA Court rulings. [read post]
21 Jun 2008, 9:39 pm
When Tim Lee took on the Federal Circuit in a recent post on TechDirt, it was apparent he had not read Judge Plager's piece in 101 Nw. [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 7:10 am
I have watched from the sidelines as the mostly intelligent copyright debate has swirled around the Mike Masnick Techdirt articles on the claim by a news agency that it owned copyright over a photograph taken by a monkey in Indonesia. [read post]
4 Mar 2024, 7:39 pm
TechDirt: “There are two major reasons that the U.S. doesn’t pass an internet-era privacy law or regulate data brokers despite a parade of dangerous scandals. [read post]
28 Jul 2015, 9:05 pm
Former NYT Peking correspondent Richard Bernstein, who now co-owns two nail salons, challenges Times blockbuster on prevalence of labor exploitation at NYC salons [New York Review of Books, Elizabeth Nolan Brown and followup, Times rebuttal] More details on how studios used Mississippi attorney general’s office as cut-out against Google [Mike Masnick, TechDirt, earlier here and here, more on AG Jim Hood] Of course licensing laws “are only there to protect consumers and are… [read post]
26 Feb 2012, 9:08 pm
Department of Transportation cracks down on distraction from cars’ onboard information and entertainment systems; Mike Masnick suspects the measure won’t work as intended, as appears to have been the case with early texting bans [Techdirt; earlier here, etc.] [read post]
22 Dec 2006, 11:28 pm
Despite many negative posts, Don Dodge and Techdirt have provided a balancing perspective. [read post]
28 Sep 2018, 3:08 am
Mike Masnick, TechDirt: [J]ust after Twitter and Facebook appeared before Congress, the DOJ released a statement saying that it was investigating whether or not actions by the big internet companies was “intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas. [read post]
31 Mar 2025, 7:21 pm
TechDirt: “Imagine you had pretty much unlimited power over the government and wanted to save taxpayers’ money. [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 3:57 am
In a post at TechDirt, Timothy Lee blasts the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and advocates a return to the prior regionalization of patent jurisdiction. [read post]
21 May 2010, 9:30 am
Techdirt reported recently that a politician in Argentina who introduced an anti-plagiarism bill has come under fire for apparently copying some of the language he used without crediting the source, a practice some have called "plagiarism. [read post]
