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26 Mar 2015, 4:40 am by Ben
The court noted that Perfect 10 has been making this same exact claim for years in almost every case it had brought, and that president and CEO Norman Zada seemingly ran the business as a tax write off, making it somewhat unbelievable as a defence to meeting costs: As TechDirt notes, Perfect 10 admits that it has likely “never been solvent” in more than 15 years of operation.... [read post]
23 Mar 2015, 3:13 pm by Joe Mullin
At the time, Mike Masnick at Techdirt wrote an open letter to Elon Musk, suggesting the best solution would be for the owner of SpaceX to simply put the images in the public domain. [read post]
9 Mar 2015, 4:40 am by SHG
” But in the comments to Amy’s post, Techdirt’s Tim Cushing lobs a bomb: “Dinah Silverstein” doesn’t exist. [read post]
25 Feb 2015, 1:05 pm
See their plea to the "bear" sent this morning at this link.Eventually given much more time and remedial education perhaps the idiots at techdirt will begin to awaken, but certainly not in time to keep the bear out of the house. [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 4:13 am by Ben
TechDirt also have some queries about Mr Moignard's maths and interpretation of the law - and all in all its a very interesting read, even for luddites like the CopyKat. [read post]
21 Feb 2015, 5:47 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
--Also in August 2011, the Techdirt blog discussed the CIVIX-DDI matter in a post titled -- Company Claims Patents On Generating A Map From A Database; Getting Real Estate Industry To Pay Up --The first claims of the two patents asserted by CIVIX-DDI were both directed to a system, not a method. [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 5:29 am by SHG
Yet, my hopes were dashed upon reading Mike Masnick’s Techdirt post about Lynch’s response to a question from former Saturday Night Live writer Al Franken. [read post]
13 Feb 2015, 2:09 pm
[And an update – there’s been some additional correspondence between Sprigman and Perry’s lawyers, reported on at Techdirt here.] [read post]
1 Feb 2015, 4:36 pm
Now the techdirt blog reports that it is home to a trade mark dispute over the names of noodle restaurants. [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 8:07 am by Ron Coleman
This from TechDirt: [M]any music bloggers are now fighting a much more invisible menace, with posts they’ve written suddenly disappearing from their sites (via Tyler Hellard) hosted on Google’s Blogger platform. [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 2:46 pm by Ben
Because the District Court correctly held that Omega misused its copyright in the Globe Design by attempting to leverage its limited monopoly over the design to control the importation and sale of Seamaster watches, I would affirm the District Court on the issue of copyright misuse.Some would like to gave seen more on misuse: Writing on TechDirt,  Mike Masnick opines: "While I understand why the majority ruling just went with the easy out with First Sale, it's too bad… [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 8:09 pm
"Court Soundly Rejects Watchmaker's Attempt To Abuse Copyright Law To Stop Sale Of Its Watches At Costco": At Techdirt, Mike Masnick has this post about a ruling that the U.S. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 9:21 pm by Walter Olson
Frank Bruni, New York Times] Scalia, Epstein, many others: videos now online from the Federalist Society’s recently concluded 2014 National Lawyers Convention; List of firms with non-disparagement clauses (of highly dubious enforceability) purporting to forbid negative comments from customers [Tim Cushing, TechDirt] “Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans” [Philip K. [read post]
17 Jan 2015, 6:20 am by Ben
David Post has an interesting take here as does Mike Masnick on Techdirt here. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 6:13 am
 But as Mike Masnick points out over at Techdirt, Soderbergh has been a prominent copyright maximalist, testifying before Congress on behalf of the Director’s Guild of America in favor of a harsh “three strikes and you’re out” policy for online copyright infringers. [read post]
13 Jan 2015, 3:00 am by Eric Turkewitz
And from there went on to cite Techdirt and BoingBoing articles that Randazza didn’t write that ripped on Roca. [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
” That includes TV personalities’ tweets disparaging to Glasgow [BBC, Alex Massie/Spectator, Elizabeth Nolan Brown] More: Calls mount for repeal of Australia Section 18C speech-crime law, which would ban the French magazine Charlie Hebdo if someone tried to publish it down there [Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, earlier on Andrew Bolt case] “Hate speech” concept got rolling when Stalin used it as weapon against democracies [Jacob Mchangama, Hoover, a while back] More… [read post]
5 Jan 2015, 4:44 am by Ron Coleman
 Here’s a post from that very fine poker of the pokable, Mike Masnick at TechDirt that is almost ten years old (February 2005): Is The Eiffel Tower Copyrighted? [read post]
30 Dec 2014, 7:38 am by Ron Coleman
| Techdirt http://bit.ly/57eMOW @future_of_music More Research To Back The Notion That Streaming Kills Piracy : http://bit.ly/6lO6lH @citmedialaw New post: ADA Online: Is a Website a “Place of Public Accommodation”? [read post]
30 Dec 2014, 7:38 am by Ron Coleman
  Here’s coverage from TechDirt, too (via Andie). [read post]