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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]
26 Nov 2015, 10:02 pm
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]
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 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]
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]
24 Jul 2020, 5:02 am
Here's another, even more clearly criminal, alleged scheme; Tim Cushing at Techdirt has the story, and you can also see the indictment, a Justice Department press release about another indictment of the same hacker, and a City News Service article. [read post]
28 Oct 2015, 10:12 am
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 Awareness” and appears to be threatening other charities for using the phrase, and (according to this petition) has filed complaints to get fundraising stores shut down for using the phrase. [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]
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]
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]
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]
18 Apr 2016, 2:15 pm
[Techdirt] * Gay republican confronts Ted Cruz over religious-freedom inspired laws. [read post]
8 May 2015, 4:05 am
Techdirt blog criticizes the lawsuit at length. [read post]
27 Jan 2017, 3:06 pm
Techdirt fights for its right to dispute the so-called inventor of email. [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]
18 Dec 2017, 9:01 am
It Looks Like The FBI Thought About Prosecuting FOIA Requesters After Influx of Automated RequestsTim Cushing, TechDirt, Dec. 15, 2017Emma Best of MuckRock has unearthed some disturbing details in an FBI response to an FOIA request: apparently the agency considered -- however briefly -- the investigation and prosecution of people filing requests.The nature of the requests may shed some light on the FBI's thought process because the heavily-redacted email included in the response… [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]
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]
14 Feb 2023, 12:26 pm
For more on the controversy and lots of links, read the latest at article on the subject at TechDirt. [read post]
