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18 Jul 2011, 9:00 pm by Ben Snitkoff
Monkey Business Monkeys Don’t Do Fair Use; News Agency Tells Techdirt To Remove Photos Monkey Business: Can A Monkey License Its Copyrights To A News Agency? [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 10:31 pm
(Information Week) Verizon hit with GPL copyright lawsuit over router software (Ars Technica) Congress' copyright reform: seize computers, boost penalties, spend money (Ars Technica) Wikipedia Sued For Nazi Sympathies (TechCrunch) Shocker: Politics Exist On Wikipedia (Techdirt) Wikipedia ban for disruptive professor (The Observer) Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates (Mashable) Facebook Apps Hit 10k in Number: Are We Still Excited? [read post]
26 Feb 2007, 5:38 pm
TechDirt is in the house and has commented on Congressman Howard Berman's take on patent reform and the longer patent reform panel session. [read post]
27 Jul 2009, 11:56 am
Techdirt plays fast and loose with the patent facts about India [read post]
11 May 2016, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Louis may need cleanup, yet consolidation is no cure-all either [Aaron Renn, Urbanophile] In doubly aggressive legal stance, Obama DoJ claims controversial North Carolina bathroom law violates federal law, threatens state with fund cutoff unless repealed pronto [Scott Shackford, Reason] “Vice Media Sends Cease And Desist To [Indie Rock Band] ViceVersa Over Trademark Infringement” [TechDirt] “Federal regulation is a hidden tax at nearly $15,000 per U.S. household… [read post]
2 Jul 2011, 9:21 am by Walter Olson
Mike Masnick at TechDirt thinks the bill could wind up authorizing the jailing of some persons who embed YouTube videos or post videos of themselves lip-synching hit tunes; CopyHype defends the bill and dismisses the concerns as overblown. [read post]
2 Dec 2019, 3:03 am by Walter Olson
Public.Resource.Org, earlier here and here] Update: federal judge Kaplan imposes sanctions on alleged “copyright troll” Richard Liebowitz, further complications ensue [Eugene Volokh, more, ABA Journal, earlier] How Coca-Cola responds to flavor suggestions from fans on Twitter [Mike Masnick] “California Man Gets Sued After Trying To Trademark Bully A Theme Park’ [Timothy Geigner, TechDirt] “Like Righthaven before it, the Higbee firm has been taking… [read post]
3 Sep 2010, 9:07 am by Eric Lipman
See this post at Techdirt for some clarifications and scathing criticism.) [read post]
30 Sep 2016, 3:00 am by Walter Olson
-based Daily Mail is filed in Maryland, also names obscure blogger from that state [Mike Masnick, TechDirt] Tale of ginned-up out-of-state defamation lawsuit meant to aid in “reputation management” takedowns gets even weirder [Paul Alan Levy, earlier] University of Tennessee, a public institution, cites First Amendment in dropping probe of Prof. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 2:59 am by Walter Olson
Moving against emerging litigation analytics and prediction sector, France bans publication of statistical information about individual judges’ decisions on criminal penalty [Artificial Lawyer, ABA Journal, David Post] Eugene Volokh analyzes Washington high court’s unanimous ruling against Arlene’s Flowers and Barronelle Stutzman in same-sex marriage refusal case [Volokh Conspiracy, earlier on case here and here] “Small claims court for copyright” idea would likely… [read post]
19 Apr 2016, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
HBO back with “Confirmation” docudrama on the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill episode and Stuart Taylor, Jr. not greatly impressed [Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist] Another rogue Eastern District of Texas patent outcome falls, this time it’s Google for $85 million [Joe Mullin, ArsTechnica] “New Bill Designed To Stop Egregious Venue Shopping By Patent Trolls” [Nathan Leamer and Zach Graves, TechDirt] “Life in California — A Tax on a Tax”… [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]
28 Dec 2019, 8:59 am by Walter Olson
” [Mike Masnick, Techdirt] “These were never good jobs,” claims the measure’s sponsor, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), but lots of freelancers have made clear they disagree [Billy Binion] “Mainstream politicians and pundits love to cite ‘unintended consequences’ when their preferred policies cause harm in the exact ways libertarians said they would. [read post]
16 Jan 2019, 2:58 am by Walter Olson
tales of the gun buyback, local adoption of Daubert, and more in my latest Maryland policy roundup [Free State Notes; plus redistricting updates] “Despite Losing Its Copyright Case, The State Of Georgia Still Trying To Stop Carl Malamud From Posting Its Laws” [Mike Masnick, TechDirt, earlier] Tags: Baltimore, copyright, Daubert, free trade, Georgia, lawyers, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Stan Chesley, technology [read post]
5 Jun 2019, 8:07 am by Grant Harrison
Recent Articles: Glyn Moody: US Court Upholds Enforceability Of GNU GPL As Both A License And A Contract (Source: techdirt ) Markus Deck and Philippe Heinzke: China’s courts pass controversial rulings on open-source licensing (Source: Lexology) MIT Licensing: MIT licensing for software is perhaps the most common permissive license due to the fact that it has very few restrictions on reuse as long as developers include the MIT license terms and copyright notice. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 3:14 pm
Now, as first reported by Techdirt, the federal government has tacitly admitted it screwed up in seizing Dajaz1.com. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 4:20 pm
We’re excited about this decision and look forward to renewing our focus on supporting the incredible variety of ideas and expression that billions of people post and watch on YouTube every day around the world.UPDATE: This decision also applies to other parties to the lawsuit, including the Premier League".Commentary at TechDirt and hopefully, from me in next few days. [read post]