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12 Sep 2008, 2:33 pm
: (Excess Copyright), Election stalls copyright reform: (ipblog.ca), Digital issues deserve a spot in the election campaign: (Michael Geist), Canadian-based torrent tracker isoHunt files suit against Canadian Recording Industry Association seeking confirmation that it does not infringe Canadian copyright law: (Michael Geist), (ipblog.ca), (Techdirt), 61 reforms to C-61: (Day 55: e-reserve provisions require DRM – Michael Geist), (Day 56: interlibrary digital loans must… [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 3:26 pm
There's a guy in NY, Clark Stoekley, who apparently owns a white panel van that he's painted with the Wikileaks logo to raise awareness for the plight of Bradley Manning (though he has no other connection to Manning or Wikileaks). [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 8:48 am
We've had a lot of stories this year about police arresting people for filming them. [read post]
30 Apr 2011, 8:14 am
It really was just a couple of weeks ago that we asked the (we thought) hypothetical question of who owns the copyright on a tattoo, and noted it would be a good question for a law school exam. [read post]
13 Jun 2017, 3:30 am
Shiva Ayyadurai, seen here in January 2017. [read post]
29 Aug 2013, 1:20 am
On the other hand, the kinds of people who specialize on these issues -- even anti-IP activists like the Techdirt author or a certain European anti-software patent organization -- will sooner or later have some financial relationship of some sort with some industry player, even if indirectly, such as through membership fees paid to industry associations or donations made to non-governmental organizations. [read post]
5 Dec 2024, 10:38 am
” Techdirt founder Mike Masnick was hit with a $15 million libel lawsuit in federal court. [read post]
5 Aug 2015, 4:09 am
Techdirt says that in the past, evidence showed that other similar copyright trolls like Prenda, were engaged in seeding their own content, which would make the file authorized, and thus the shakedown letters a form of "copyright misuse. [read post]
15 Sep 2022, 12:47 pm
” Techdirt founder Mike Masnick was hit with a $15 million libel lawsuit in federal court. [read post]
18 Jul 2008, 8:34 am
You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com] Highlights this week included: EU Commission adopts proposal to extend copyright protection to performing artists from 50 to 95 years: (IPKat), (Out-Law), (IP Law360), (Patry Copyright Blog), (IPEG), (Techdirt), (Techdirt), ‘Triway’ USPTO, EPO, JPO patent work-sharing pilot starts 28 July: (IP Updates), (Patent Docs), (Patent… [read post]
10 Mar 2012, 3:11 pm
” [@Popehat on Gawker item] “Key Techdirt SOPA/PIPA Post Censored By Bogus DMCA Takedown Notice” [Mike Masnick] Overly aggressive trademark lawyers? [read post]
20 Apr 2018, 3:05 am
[Mike Masnick, TechDirt] “16 Pulse survivors sue Google, Facebook, Twitter for ‘supporting’ ISIS” [Daniel Dahm, WKRG Orlando] Not the group it used to be: ACLU calls for government-owned broadband, claims First Amendment may require as opposed to forbid state-operated communications infrastructure [Randolph May and Theodore Bolema, Free State Foundation] Cato amicus commercial speech triple-header: Virginia’s ban on promoting happy hours (bars may hold… [read post]
22 Oct 2009, 11:04 am
An example of litigation being used for, apparently, nothing but intimidation is pointed out by techdirt: The Medill Innocence Project at Northwestern University “gives undergraduate students firsthand experience in investigating wrongful convictions. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 5:37 am
The latest example of that is a post on Techdirt that says police in Long Beach California have a policy that they can detain someone taking photos with “no apparent esthetic value”. [read post]
14 Aug 2016, 9:05 pm
Then denies all of it” [Mike Masnick, TechDirt] Lawsuit demanding R ratings on films with “tobacco imagery” deserves to be hit with SLAPP sanctions; “suing the MPAA to force censorship raises the stakes. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 4:20 am
" http://j.mp/gljLU7 #lwb486 from techdirt ... [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 8:10 pm
[WSJ Law blog] [Techdirt] The complaint seemed sort of all over the place, with no core allegations of misconduct by Facebook. [read post]
5 May 2010, 7:31 am
And yes, I realize that the attention I would bring is not in itself significant (I’m not Techdirt or Boing Boing), but every bit helps, and every bit adds up. [read post]
18 Aug 2008, 9:14 am
We've discussed non-competes often here in the past; Techdirt made much the same point a year and a half back.And then there is from Networkworld, Non-compete pacts called bad for tech innovation:Some instead seek employment in large companies that can defend them against litigation related to non-compete agreements, said Lee Fleming, an associate professor at Harvard who is conducting a research project into the subject. [read post]
27 Jan 2008, 5:13 am
TechDirt is reporting an update to a case they first covered back in October where a lawyer tried to claim his cease-and-desist letters fell under a copyright, and thus no one could legally reprint them without his express permission. [read post]
