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25 Nov 2015, 11:00 am by Ben
 The Judge refused to allow the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge to file an amicus brief supporting Cox saying (according to TechDirt): "It adds absolutely nothing helpful at all" and "It is a combination of describing the horrors that one endures from losing the Internet for any length of time. [read post]
15 Feb 2016, 3:30 am by Ray Dowd
  Proposed legislation is being submitted to both houses of the Congress in conjunction with this transmittal.I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to the Marrakesh Treaty, and give its advice and consent to its ratification.BARACK OBAMAHere is a copy of the Marrakesh Treaty:Marrakesh Treaty For the Visually Impaired Here is Techdirt's take.Below is the take of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations… [read post]
12 Dec 2016, 12:27 pm by Elliot Harmon
As Mike Masnick points out in Techdirt, NMA’s memo is particularly ironic in light of President-elect Trump’s troubled relationship with the news media. [read post]
7 Dec 2018, 4:56 am by Ben
are Gizmodo "Tech Giants Wake Up to EU Copyright Plan That Threatens to Nuke the Web" and BoingBoing which goes with "Poland rejects the EU's copyright censorship plans, calls it #ACTA2" whilst Twitch has sent a letter to the Twitch creators' communityThe Australian Government has also rejected loud appeals from the tech community and the tech giants who argue that proposed reforms to copyright law will diminish the internet's primary role as a communications tool… [read post]
12 Aug 2019, 2:00 am by Ben
Techdirt have been doing some digging and have found some very amusing notices that certainly do not fit in with the prescribed formats: How about ""No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, cookie jar or spare room... [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]
9 Jun 2015, 12:12 pm by Andy
"One of the earliest responses to the proposal has come from Mike Masnick on the Techdirt blog. [read post]
14 Apr 2016, 4:00 am by Ray Dowd
For more information check out Wikipedia's entry on The Streisand Effect, a term coined by TechDirt's Mike Masnick.For more information about how to litigate faire use issues under the Copyright Act, please check out Copyright Litigation Handbook (Thomson Reuters West 2015-2016). [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 2:29 am by Ben
 The appellate court said no error - the Copyright Act prevails.And finally - this one could be fun: Author Erick DeBanff, a self help guru who promotes living your life "to the max", has filed a lawsuit is against Google for copyright infringement, because it appears that Google (as TechDirt puts it) used a 'kind of trite message' in a commercial about making every moment matter - in the same way that Debanff subtitled his book. [read post]
3 Jul 2014, 10:37 am by Ben
And TechDirt have this take "EU Publishers Present Their 'Vision' For Copyright: A Permission-Based Internet Where Licensing Is Required For Everything" which can be found here.And in the UK doubt has been raised about the UK government's power to introduce a new private copying exception to copyright without an associated mechanism for compensating rights holders. [read post]
9 Jun 2018, 9:20 am by Eugene Volokh
Thanks to Eric Turkewitz (New York Personal Injury Attorney Law Blog) for catching this, and Scott Greenfield (Simple Justice) and Techdirt (Tim Cushing) for publicizing this. [read post]
. ~   For more information about the investor-state system: Techdirt: People Begin To Wake Up To Massive Dangers Of Investor-State Dispute Resolution Public Citizen: Investor-State Attacks on the Public Interest   Related Issues: Intellectual PropertyInternationalTrans-Pacific Partnership AgreementShare this:   ||  Join EFF [read post]
28 Feb 2016, 2:59 pm by Ray Dowd
  Check out Techdirt's detailed post:  Copyright Office Decides To Rewrite Copyright Law Itself, Blesses A 'Making Available' Right That Isn't There.Chapter 3 of my book Copyright Litigation Handbook is titled Client Interviews and Initial Investigations. [read post]
3 Oct 2017, 5:34 pm by elliot
TechDirt’s Mike Masnick investigated some of the voices behind SESTA and found that they seem to see it as just a step on the way to banning pornography from the Internet. [read post]
14 Nov 2015, 4:09 am by Ben
 More on MBW here and on TechDirt here.That leaked document that revealed the EU Commission's plans for copyright in 2016 has sparked a lot of comment in cyber space - most name checking the IPKat! [read post]