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14 Feb 2012, 4:40 pm
Techdirt’s Mike Masnick brilliantly gutted it, and I’m not going to pile on – a tour de force requires no augmentation. [read post]
20 Aug 2017, 9:18 pm
A recent post by Cathy Gellis over at Techdirt asks but does not answer some interesting questions about the implications of the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 ("VARA") on the removal of confederate monuments. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 1:08 pm
Over at Techdirt, Mike Masnick did a great post a few weeks back on a theme I've written about before: peoples' tendency to underestimate the robustness of open platforms. [read post]
17 Oct 2008, 1:48 pm
(ZDNet - A Developer's View) CLIPARAMA.com launches world's biggest video only search (Philip Brooks' Patent Infringement Updates) Details released on the Radiohead experiment results: a tremendous success (Techdirt) Disney EULA funny, but also a bit sad (Innovationpartners) Canada Canada Election 2008 - a digital policy scorecard (Michael Geist) Europe European Court of Justice rules database owners can prevent material from being transferred from… [read post]
20 Mar 2013, 6:43 am
Wikipedia summarizes the situation well, and points out that: Techdirt argued that while the founder of Megaupload had a significant history of "flouting the law", evidence had potentially been taken out of context or misrepresented and could "come back to haunt other online services who are providing perfectly legitimate services".[81] Eric Goldman, a professor of law at Santa Clara University, described the Megaupload case as "a depressing display of abuse of government authority". [read post]
11 Apr 2022, 2:27 pm
The Open Legal Blog Archive, backed by LexBlog, will serve as a moderator of legal content, and that’s a good thing, despite its arguable infringement on free speech.Fred Wilson’s post this morning, citing a piece by Techdirt’s Mike Masnick discussed why moderation. [read post]
26 Jan 2008, 11:23 am
Techdirt has a post on a rather triumphal press release put out by a law firm claiming that “[t]he US District Court for the District of Idaho has found that copyright law protects a lawyer demand letter posted online by the recipient. [read post]
24 Oct 2017, 11:47 am
Mike Masnick at Techdirt reported it first: the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas issued a federal grand jury subpoena to Twitter, seeking the identifying information for five Twitter accounts, including @popehat. [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 2:18 pm
Techdirt reports on Phorm, a controversial new proprietary ad serving technology, atQuestions Raised Over Phorm's Legality As BT Admits It Tested The Service Secretly. [read post]
19 Mar 2009, 7:35 am
Mike Masnick of TechDirt, the guy who exposed this scam, was kind enough to explain to me that "Choruss" isn't something students will be able to opt out of. [read post]
11 Oct 2008, 3:07 am
(Laurence Kaye on Digital Media Law) EU Parliament passes 'Telecom Package' - only judges can order net disconnections (Ars Technica) Extraction and databases - the ECJ rules in Directmedia Publishing GmbH v Albert-Ludwigs- Universität Freiburg (IPKat) Google refuses to submit to Europe's data protection regime (IMPACT) Germany Court tells P2P company RapidShare that it must proactively monitor content for infringement (Ars Technica) (Techdirt) … [read post]
31 Oct 2008, 12:26 pm
(Techdirt) Google, Yahoo, Microsoft unveil new code of conduct for net censorship 'Global Network Initiative' (EFF) (Ars Technica) Google opens new front in battle over Viacom's 'copyright cop' (The Trademark Blog) Hollywood menaces DVD rental kiosks: Redbox sues Universal Studios for antitrust violations (Techdirt) (Public Knowledge) (Ars Technica) (Law360) (EFF) (Techdirt) If the handbag industry took after the MPAA (Techdirt) Is… [read post]
25 May 2007, 9:06 pm
From Techdirt:Greg Beck writes "Public Citizen late yesterday filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit in Florida by two affiliated infomercial companies that are attempting to shut down negative reviews of their day trading software on the website InfomercialScams.com. [read post]
20 May 2013, 10:59 am
For more information about becoming a member of the Centre, click here.ESA Study recommends free, open data policy for Sentinel data (Geospatial World) INTERNET LAW - Use of Mobile Phone Geolocation in Ireland's Criminal Proceedings (ibls) An informative discussion on the use of geolocation data from mobile devices by Irish authorities.Judge Allows FBI To Use Evidence Collected Via Stingray Fake Cell Towers (techdirt) I find it interesting that it did not… [read post]
21 Oct 2015, 3:55 pm
And at Techdirt, Timothy Geigner has a post titled "Appeals Court Reverses Its Own Ruling: It's NOT Trademark Infringement For Amazon To Provide Useful Search Results. [read post]
8 May 2015, 4:05 am
Techdirt blog criticizes the lawsuit at length. [read post]
16 Jun 2016, 6:37 pm
" Mike Masnick of Techdirt has a post titled "Appeals Court Gives Big Loss To Record Labels In Their Quixotic Lawsuit Against Vimeo For Lipdubs. [read post]
6 Oct 2024, 1:59 pm
TechDirt has more details on this latest chapter on the DoNotPay saga here. [read post]
U.S. Republican Study Committee Releases Progressive Copyright Document Only To Withdraw Hours Later
19 Nov 2012, 11:53 pm
Republican Study Committee of a progressive report on copyright, only to withdraw the paper hours later (coverage from Techdirt (1, 2), Volokh Conspiracy, the American Conservative, Politico, CNET, and Macleans). [read post]
16 Nov 2018, 2:37 pm
If You Want The Government To Hand Over Documents, You Might Want To Retain A Lawyerfrom the get-busy-suing-or-get-busy-waiting deptBy Tim Cushing, Techdirt, Nov. 16, 2018Fifty years after the passage of the Freedom of Information Act, the letter of the law lives on but its spirit has been crushed. [read post]
