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16 Jul 2018, 12:42 am by Steve Baird
As reported by Munchies, MusicFeeds, and Timothy Geigner of Techdirt, the Ruby Tuesday restaurant chain is threatening trademark litigation against an Australian band, Ruby Tuesdays. [read post]
11 Jul 2018, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt; Austin Berg, Illinois Policy, related] Tags: Illinois, schools, surveillance “Illinois 13-year-old charged with eavesdropping felony for recording meeting with principal” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
11 Jul 2018, 3:01 am by Walter Olson
“Expensive new licensing requirements and the bureaucratic headache of implementing” new regulations are expected to reduce further the number of agencies offering international adoption to U.S. families [Liz Wolfe, Reason] And don’t forget to mark your calendar and, if you can attend in person, register for next week’s July 19 Cato conference on adoption policy, at which international adoption will be one focus; Report confirms again what I wrote nearly a year ago: many… [read post]
6 Jul 2018, 8:50 am by Eric Goldman
 GDPR as a pro-censorship tool * Techdirt: Companies Respond to the GDPR By Blocking All EU Users  * Financial Times: Data protectionism: the growing menace to global business * Politico: ‘Too inconvenient’: Trump goes rogue on phone security * NY Times: U.S. [read post]
30 Jun 2018, 4:45 am by Cyrus Farivar
(credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Lawyers representing the Massachusetts man who for years has made a highly-controversial claim that he invented email have filed their appeal in an ongoing lawsuit brought against the tech news site, Techdirt. [read post]
26 Jun 2018, 1:56 pm
Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento, writing at Hyperallergic, on Anish Kapoor's lawsuit against the NRA.Related:  Mike Masnick at Techdirt:"This is so obviously fair use that it's not even worth going through the full four factor analysis. [read post]
14 Jun 2018, 6:56 am by Eric Goldman
It Could Also Hit Online Dating * Cracked: When Leaders Who Don’t Understand The Web Try To Control It * Vox: The next big battle over internet freedom is here * Techdirt: FOSTA Supporters Come Out Swinging Against Critics * Berin Szoka of TechFreedom, Platform Responsibility & Section 230: Filtering Practices of Social Media Platforms: Hearing Before the House Committee on the Judiciary: despite the best efforts of this Committee, Congress, as a whole, demonstrated itself… [read post]
11 Jun 2018, 2:53 am by Walter Olson
” [Venkat Balasubramani, Technology and Marketing Law Blog] “Crime in D.C. to Negligently Cause ‘Significant Mental Suffering’ by Saying Two Non-Political Things About Someone” [Eugene Volokh] “NY State Legislators Unanimously Pass A Cyberbullying Bill That Can’t Be Bothered To Define Cyberbullying” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt] Blame failings of copyright law, not scholarly neglect, for long inattention to Zora Neale Hurston manuscript [Ted… [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]
7 Jun 2018, 2:55 am by Walter Olson
” [John Pfaff Twitter thread, earlier here, here, and here] “CBP Sued For Seizing $41,000 From Airline Passenger, Then Refusing To Give It Back Unless She Promised Not To Sue” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt] Even when suspects are in fact guilty, lies told to justify searches “corrupt the law in order to enforce it. [read post]
26 May 2018, 7:01 am by Walter Olson
[Timothy Geigner, Techdirt] Tags: art and artists, copyright, movies film and videos HBO sued over three-second shot of graffiti is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
21 May 2018, 3:06 am by Walter Olson
Adelman] Wisconsin appeals court allows suit against online gun-ad marketplace over shooting; resulting damage to Section 230 would menace social media sites whether or not gun-related [Eric Goldman, Eugene Volokh] “Appeals Court Finally Shuts Down Bogus Lawsuit Targeting A School Official For Words A Journalist Wrote” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt, earlier] Tags: Facebook, free speech, guns, libel slander and defamation, Spain Free speech roundup is a post from… [read post]
18 May 2018, 8:35 am by Andres
This is not the place to break down why so many people have opposed this legislation as trying to fix one problem by opening a big gaping hole in the liability regime (best place to start is with EFF and Techdirt), but the law has had an interesting jurisdiction effect. [read post]
16 May 2018, 3:01 am by Walter Olson
Lawmakers Looking To Take Legal Action Against Google For Not Solving Long-Running City Traffic Problems” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt on controversy over Waze routing of traffic onto steep-graded street] Tags: ADA filing mills, adoption, Baltimore, ethics, Google, judges, Maryland May 16 roundup 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]
27 Apr 2018, 4:26 am by Edith Roberts
” At Techdirt, Mike Masnick calls the decision “is a big and important win, protecting everyone from bad patents. [read post]
26 Apr 2018, 2:30 pm by Riana Pfefferkorn
Green has put his specific critiques into a more detailed blog post, as have Errata Security’s Rob Graham and Mike Masnick at Techdirt. [read post]
23 Apr 2018, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
” [Popehat] More: Mike Masnick, TechDirt: “basically a laundry list of the laws that we regularly talk about (especially about how they’re abused in litigation). [read post]
23 Apr 2018, 10:52 am by Eric Goldman
As Techdirt explains: Remember, this was a site for sex workers to communicate with each other. [read post]