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20 Jul 2017, 4:05 am by Cyrus Farivar
 The lawsuit, which was first reported by Techdirt and Dot Esports, lays out a compelling argument. [read post]
18 Jul 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Just don’t [John McGinnis] “O’Neil is the Wang of Ireland” says apparel trademark disputant [Timothy Geigner, Techdirt] “Religious people should live under the same laws as everyone else” was a nice slogan while it lasted [Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post on nuns’ construction of chapel in field so as to block pipeline, plus resulting Twitter thread] “Therapy animals are everywhere, but proof that they help is not” [Karin Brulliard,… [read post]
18 Jul 2017, 6:43 am by Eric Goldman
. * Techdirt: Copyright Madness: Blurred Lines Mess Means Artists Now Afraid To Name Their Inspirations Patents * Ian Appel et al, Patent Trolls and Small Business Employment: We analyze how frivolous patent-infringement claims made by “patent trolls” affect small firms’ ability to create jobs, raise capital, and survive. [read post]
16 Jul 2017, 7:49 am by Eric Goldman
* Techdirt: AT&T, Comcast & Verizon Pretend They Didn’t Just Pay Congress To Sell You Out On Privacy * Washington Post: How Congress dismantled federal Internet privacy rules. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 2:59 am by Walter Olson
More on broad “right of publicity” bill in New York legislature [Jonathan Peters, Columbia Journalism Review; earlier] “Court Orders Man Who Sued News Orgs For Clipping His Facebook Video To Pay Everyone’s Attorney’s Fees” [Timothy Geigner, TechDirt] ABC settles “pink slime” defamation lawsuit on undisclosed terms [AP, earlier] “Power Line” blogger attends media reception at White House, finds notes subpoenaed by travel ban… [read post]
18 Jun 2017, 3:45 am by INFORRM
The decision is will be welcomed by copyright holders but is criticised in a post on the Techdirt website. [read post]
6 Jun 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
“Copyright Troll’s Tech ‘Experts’ Can Apparently Detect Infringement Before It Happens” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt] “Judge Alsup Threatens To Block Malibu Media From Any More Copyright Trolling In Northern California” [Mike Masnick, same] “The Truth About Seattle’s Proposed Soda Tax and its Ilk” [Baylen Linnekin quoting my piece on the Howard County, Maryland campaign against soft drinks; my related on Philadelphia soda tax] Update:… [read post]
6 Jun 2017, 6:46 pm
"Sixth Circuit Appeals Court Latest To Say Real-Time Cellphone Location Tracking Not A Fourth Amendment Issue": Tim Cushing of Techdirt has this post about a per curiam ruling that the U.S. [read post]
26 May 2017, 3:05 am by Walter Olson
Jarrett Dieterle, City Journal] If concept of obstruction of justice is not to do injustice itself, it must be confined to a limited number of well-defined offenses [Tim Lynch, Cato] “Drug recognition experts” deployed at traffic stops have a reliability problem, and that can put innocent people behind bars [11Alive Atlanta, Ed Krayewski] Zero-tolerance THC: Unimpaired driver gets six months for fatal crash she did not cause [Jacob Sullum] New York Senate approves bill to make… [read post]
22 May 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
[cross-posted from Cato at Liberty] More: Mike Masnick, TechDirt; Daniel Nazer, EFF. [read post]
21 May 2017, 4:41 pm by INFORRM
Malta Techdirt has a post about the action brought by the Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, against Matthew Caruana over a story concerning the Panama Papers. [read post]
9 May 2017, 4:00 am by Judith Gaskell
Techdirt followed up with another blogpost revealing that the Copyright Office used a fake budget number of 25 million dollars as a “placeholder. [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 8:51 am by Eric Goldman
Charles Harder is well-known for recent defamation lawsuits, including the lawsuits funded by Peter Thiel that shut down Gawker and the pending suit against Techdirt in the “who invented email? [read post]
5 Apr 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
” [EFF on stalled California bill to ban “fake news,” introduced by Assemblymember Ed Chau (D-Monterey Park)] “Germany approves bill curbing online hate crime, fake news” [AP/Yahoo, earlier] “Another Free Speech Win In Libel Lawsuit Disguised As A Trademark Complaint” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt; criticism of doctor’s experimental treatment methods] Punching a hole out of Section 230: new “sex trafficking” bill could have… [read post]
29 Mar 2017, 1:00 am by Cyrus Farivar
Enlarge (credit: Boston Globe / Getty Images News) Shiva Ayyadurai, the Massachusetts man who for years has made a widely disputed claim that he invented e-mail, has formally declared his intention to run as a candidate for the United States Senate in 2018. [read post]
27 Mar 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
[Beth Reinhard, WSJ] Such “Blue Lives Matter” bills continue to be introduced elsewhere around the country at both state and municipal levels [Julia Craven/Huffington Post, Tim Cushing/TechDirt] Tags: hate crimes, police, police unions Kentucky joins Louisiana in adding police to hate-crime protected group list is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
26 Mar 2017, 4:06 pm by INFORRM
Techdirt reports that a US law firm has been fined $71,000 for filing legal claims based on false documents as part of a ‘reputation management strategy. [read post]