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25 Sep 2019, 3:01 am
“Small claims court for copyright” idea, now moving rapidly through Congress, could create a new business model for troll claimants [Mike Masnick, TechDirt; EFF on CASE Act] “If Boston is weirdly NOT full of good restaurant/bar/cafes for its size, and if people don’t want to stay after they hit 26 or so, these throttled [liquor] licenses are one of the real structural reasons why. [read post]
14 May 2008, 9:20 am
Mike Masnick at TechDirt articulates my feelings... ...Then Mhyrvold is asked about whether or not it's okay for someone to get a patent and then not do anything with it, to which he responds: I would say, yes, there's nothing wrong with that. [read post]
11 Jan 2008, 1:44 am
Techdirt's synopsis of a Vermont divorce proceeding fits nicely into our ongoing discussion of hot freedom of expression issues, north and south of the border: We've been seeing all sorts of lawsuits lately that show how the rise of technologies like the internet have really caused troubles. [read post]
22 Feb 2007, 11:44 pm
As Mike at TechDirt writes in his post that judges are quickly tossing out bogus Internet liability cases: This makes fundamental sense (it's almost too bad there even needs to be a law pointing it out), because what it's saying is that you don't blame whoever made the tool, you blame whoever used it. [read post]
21 May 2010, 9:30 am
Techdirt reported recently that a politician in Argentina who introduced an anti-plagiarism bill has come under fire for apparently copying some of the language he used without crediting the source, a practice some have called "plagiarism. [read post]
6 Jul 2018, 8:50 am
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]
7 Mar 2007, 1:05 pm
And scarier yet, as Carlo at Techdirt, my source for this post reports the students didn't make the postings themselves: ... [read post]
21 Oct 2018, 3:38 pm
techdirt: “The 11th Circuit appeals court has just overturned a lower court ruling and said that Georgia’s laws, including annotations, are not covered by copyright, and it is not infringing to post them online. [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 3:57 am
In a post at TechDirt, Timothy Lee blasts the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and advocates a return to the prior regionalization of patent jurisdiction. [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 8:17 am
(Tim Cushing (TechDirt) has also written about this incident.) [read post]
17 Apr 2013, 12:22 pm
From techdirt comments: A HUGE thanks for pointing this out, Mike! [read post]
30 Oct 2013, 12:23 pm
Mike Masnick writes at techdirt about an amazing exchange between Rogers and Prof. [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 8:09 pm
David writes in to alert us to the rather hilarious situation where Cafe Press is running an official Twilight t-shirt design contest, where you can try to design a t-shirt for the upcoming release of the latest installment (didn't the last one come out like 3 weeks ago?) [read post]
14 Jul 2010, 4:26 am
We've already written a couple of times about ASCAP's bizarre anti-artist decision, as part of its fundraising campaign, to falsely imply that Creative Commons, EFF and Public Knowledge are seeking to undermine copyright. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 10:48 pm
A whole bunch of you are sending in the bizarre news that the NY Times has sent a takedown for a popular iPad RSS reader because (*gasp*) it offers the NY Times' own RSS feed. [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 10:36 pm
Reader Dan points us to a long, but fascinating article by someone tracing a number of stories involving famous Western pop stars copying famous songs that originated in Cameroon, without any credit (or, of course, money) -- including the song by Shakira that is currently the World Cup theme song -- which some folks did some online detective work to track down its origins: Ze Bella who had retired from the Presidential Guards in 2002 was enjoying a quiet retirement in his village when he got a… [read post]
22 May 2023, 11:15 am
The underlying lawsuit was filed May 20, 2003, and the Effect followed within a few weeks; Mike Masnick (Techdirt) has the details: Twenty years ago today, actress/singer Barbra Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman for daring to photograph her coastal mansion as part of his (fascinating) project to photograph the entire west coast of the US from a helicopter to track erosion over time. [read post]
23 Aug 2010, 5:11 am
, Mike Masnick at TechDirt has discussed some of the issues.MediaMatters posted the following, which illustrates how easily bloggers can become involved in this:The Concord Monitor reports:Christopher Malley, who runs a discussion group and blog for first responders at EMTCity.com, was sued in federal court after a visitor to his website posted the entire contents of a Las Vegas Review-Journal article in a discussion forum.Thus, a commenter to a blog, rather than the blog author, can create… [read post]
26 Jul 2019, 2:54 am
“Authorities noted in the complaint he lived ‘9 houses’ away from the site of a residence where drug transactions were occurring…” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt on $626,000 Missouri civil asset forfeiture seizure] As Loyola lawprof Dane Ciolino points out, Louisiana “victims’ rights” bill seems meant to hobble public defenders’ witness investigations without holding law enforcement and D.A.s to same standards [Kira Lerner, The Appeal, earlier… [read post]
13 Sep 2016, 9:05 pm
“Conviction Overturned In Case Of Rutgers Student Whose Roommate Committed Suicide After Being Secretly Filmed” [Mike Masnick, TechDirt; earlier on Dharun Ravi and the Tyler Clementi case generally] Report from Denver: “Threat of Lawsuits Crimps Condo Developments” [Chris Kirkham, WSJ] “California bans Civil War painting from county fair because it shows Confederate flag. [read post]
