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13 May 2014, 9:06 am by Ron Coleman
Anyway, notwithstanding the merits of that forced segue, here’s the story, Via TechDirt: The US Patent and Trademark Office is frequently maligned for its baffling/terrible decisions… and rightfully so. [read post]
12 May 2014, 4:38 am by Walter Olson
“US Patent Office Grants ‘Photography Against A White Background’ Patent To Amazon” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt] Critics suspect there is prior art. [read post]
11 May 2014, 4:29 am by SHG
Proof of my ignorance is offered by this post at Franks’ Tumblr, Never let facts get in the way of hysteria: Techdirt falsely claims AZ revenge porn law requires registration as sex offender. [read post]
8 May 2014, 12:22 am by Ben
 This from TechDirt: "We kind of expected this to happen, but after a long process in which the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) carefully reviewed all sorts of proposals and evidence on copyright reform, and released some sensible proposals, Australia's Attorney General (who is also its Arts Minister apparently), George Brandis, has ignored all of it, preferring to only listen to a Hollywood front group, leading him to push for a three strikes plan and censorship in… [read post]
7 May 2014, 4:13 am by SHG
Ironically, Franks just posted another of her vapid ad hominem tumblr attacks on Mike Masnick and Tim Cushing of Techdirt for lying about her purpose of circumventing Sec. 230 protection (and calling me a “pervert blogger” for fun in the process, though she passive-aggressively fails to name me, but links back here with a proxy link so I don’t get the Google juice from her 12 readers). [read post]
5 May 2014, 6:15 am by Ron Coleman
., intelligent retweeting, the highest form of Twitter —  of topical relevance I did in December 2011 and January 2012 via @roncoleman: @constructionlaw Christopher Hill - Why No One Reads Your Law Blog | via @Lawyerist @techdirt Techdirt - European Court Of Justice Says ISPs Cannot Be Forced To Be Copyright Cops @TTABlog Anne Gilson Lalonde: Scandalousness Refusal Affirmed for Candy Trademark [Warning: Post Rated NC-17]… [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 1:30 pm by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento
Techdirt’s Mike Masnick wonders if copyright is, fundamentally (and ironically I might add), a Marxist approach to control. [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 4:18 am by SHG
Via Tim Cushing at Techdirt: The mistake prompting this guns-drawn approach of Molner’s video could have been made by anybody. [read post]
26 Apr 2014, 10:10 am by Walter Olson
To curtail parody, stop being so parody-able in the aftermath of your decision to send cops after your Twitter critics [Radley Balko, more, earlier] Related: “Watch Repairer Goes Legal Over Tame Yelp Review, Streisand Effect Takes Over” [Geigner, TechDirt] Tweet Tags: Illinois, parody, Streisand effect, TwitterAdvice for Peoria mayor Jim Ardis is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
23 Apr 2014, 1:11 am by Ben
Tom Lehrer in 1960A fascinating post on TechDirt on the refreshing attitude to copyright from Tom Lehrer,  the American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician, best known for the pithy, humorous songs he recorded in the 1950s and 1960s. [read post]
18 Apr 2014, 6:11 pm by Kevin O'Keefe
Techdirt’s Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) reports this week that a Florida court has found bloggers to be part of the media. [read post]
14 Apr 2014, 5:10 am by SHG
At Techdirt, Tim Cushing writes of one of the government’s primary weapons in the battle against these threats to our security, National Security Letters. [read post]
6 Apr 2014, 3:12 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
FourthAmendment.com links to and excerpts this article from TechDirt: Feinstein's admission that the FISA Amendments Act was used in the Daoud case took his lawyers by surprise, since none of the evidence they'd been shown involved that. [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 2:45 am by Editors
The irony is that, as others have pointed out (Boing Boing, Techdirt), Yee was previously best-known for sponsoring AB 1179, which banned the sale of violent video games to anyone under 18 because of the clear connection between those games and violent behavior. [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 2:45 am by Editors
The irony is that, as others have pointed out (Boing Boing, Techdirt), Yee was previously best-known for sponsoring AB 1179, which banned the sale of violent video games to anyone under 18 because of the clear connection between those games and violent behavior. [read post]