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30 Jul 2017, 7:47 am
” * Ars Technica: History by lawsuit: After Gawker’s demise, the “inventor of e-mail” targets Techdirt Section 230 * Doe v. [read post]
28 Jul 2017, 3:05 am
SPLC: “How the Southern Poverty Law Center Enraged Nominal Conservatives Into Betraying Free Speech Values” [Popehat] “Former University Official Files Libel Lawsuit Against His Replacement For Things A Journalist Said” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt, Tennessee] “Ted Rall Is Incensed That Anti-SLAPP Laws Protect Everyone” [Popehat] Conjuring up notional John Doe defendants can help get injunctions forcing websites to take down stories [Paul Alan Levy,… [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 4:05 am
The lawsuit, which was first reported by Techdirt and Dot Esports, lays out a compelling argument. [read post]
18 Jul 2017, 9:05 pm
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
. * 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
* 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]
9 Jul 2017, 11:16 pm
Image courtesy of TechDirt And great with clients and potential clients! [read post]
7 Jul 2017, 11:15 am
As the redoubtable Mike Masnick explains at TechDirt: Everything about this is crazy. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 2:59 am
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]
29 Jun 2017, 9:21 am
See also this item from Mike Masnick (TechDirt). [read post]
29 Jun 2017, 6:07 am
Equustek decision attracted global attention with many rightly focused on the implications of global takedown orders for freedom of speech online (my post on the case here, Daphne Keller, EFF, Howard Knopf, Techdirt). [read post]
28 Jun 2017, 10:24 am
Updated with links from elsewhere: Canadian Supreme Court Says It’s Fine To Censor The Global Internet; Authoritarians & Hollywood Cheer… (Masnick @ Techdirt) Global Internet Takedown Orders Come to Canada: Supreme Court Upholds International Removal of Google Search Results (Michael Geist) [read post]
18 Jun 2017, 3:45 am
The decision is will be welcomed by copyright holders but is criticised in a post on the Techdirt website. [read post]
17 Jun 2017, 7:45 am
Yet more: TechDirt. [read post]
13 Jun 2017, 3:30 am
Shiva Ayyadurai, seen here in January 2017. [read post]
6 Jun 2017, 9:05 pm
“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
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
[cross-posted from Cato at Liberty] More: Mike Masnick, TechDirt; Daniel Nazer, EFF. [read post]
21 May 2017, 4:41 pm
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]
