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22 Jan 2013, 6:26 am by marcorandazza
Masnick, over at TechDirt has a philosophy that, if you oversimplify it, boils down to “even if people give your stuff away for free, you can still make money charging for it if you give superior service. [read post]
8 Oct 2017, 8:56 am by Walter Olson
” [Michael Lee, Morrison Lee via Timothy Geigner, Techdirt] Tags: copyright, Twitter “Football Coach Sued for Copyright Infringement Over Retweet” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
28 Apr 2009, 10:04 am
Arlen Specter's defection to the Democrats could be interesting for IP people.He is said to like big pharma, which has a large presence in his state of Pennsylvania.He was a bull on the IP Czar(ina) position and getting the FBI more involved in enforcement.But he is bear on ACTA.In other words, a "loose cannon" on IP.Here's what Techdirt has to say about him.The times in the USA just got a [read post]
30 Aug 2014, 8:44 am by Walter Olson
The retreat came after Mike Masnick at TechDirt and Joe Mullin at ArsTechnica pointed out some of the reasons the attempt might be problematic, among them that the challenge had been used widely by other charities before it caught on in August in connection with ALS. [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 3:23 pm
  From Techdirt: there's at least one obstacle standing in the way of the elimination of the white pages: laws in some states that require the company to publish and deliver a residential directory to every one of its customers.I guess there are silly laws dealing with all sorts of issues. [read post]
14 Jun 2016, 9:15 pm by Walter Olson
[Tim Cushing, TechDirt] Tags: scandals Secret Service employees illegally accessed lawmaker’s private data in hopes of discrediting him is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
8 Dec 2016, 11:57 am by Dennis Crouch
  [Copyright-Reform.pdf] Mike Masnik (Techdirt) writes: Congress Proposes First Stages Of Copyright Reform, And It’s Not Good. [read post]
31 Jul 2007, 2:12 pm
Techdirt says it best about this bit: Labels eye online social networks as retailers (pdf) Do the record labels really not realize how much they’ve pissed off their best customers for the last decade? [read post]
17 Nov 2019, 9:01 am by Walter Olson
That isn’t how HIPAA works [Tim Cushing, Techdirt, Dallas transit case; earlier on Denver case] Tags: Dallas, HIPAA, photography, police [read post]
10 May 2008, 1:33 am
From Techdirt, 'He does a very nice job ripping apart the 'property rights' arguments that some, especially some libertarians, use in favor of patents, explaining why that doesn't make sense. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 7:52 am by Ron Coleman
Techdirt explains: BoingBoing has the latest story of trademark insanity, where a “charity” focused on the rare, but apparently serious disease of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH), is trying to trademark [sic] the phrase “Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia [...] [read post]
10 May 2008, 1:33 am
From Techdirt, 'He does a very nice job ripping apart the 'property rights' arguments that some, especially some libertarians, use in favor of patents, explaining why that doesn't make sense. [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 3:26 pm by Ron Coleman
Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe story’s all over the Net, but here’s as good a take on it as any, from Mike Masnick at Techdirt: Derrick Coetzee, a software developer and an administrator of Wikimedia Commons, the media repository for Wikipedia is being threatened by the National Portrait Gallery in London. [...] [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 8:01 am
" -- Techdirt on recapping the flap. [read post]
26 Apr 2016, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
[Timothy Geigner, TechDirt] Tags: beer and brewers, Germany, trademarks Trademark fight over “Hofbrau” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
13 May 2018, 8:56 am by Walter Olson
[Tim Cushing, TechDirt] Tags: publishers, trademarks “Cocky: overconfident, presumptuous” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 6:31 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
TechDirt features the recent patent infringement brought by Apple against Sanho.In the old days, one remembers the HP printing cartridge wars, and more recently the disposable 35mm cameras battles.As to "MagSafe" connectors, IPBiz notes its 2007 model was so poorly designed it failed and IPBiz had to lay out bucks for a rather differently designed replacement. [read post]