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1 Feb 2015, 4:36 pm
Now the techdirt blog reports that it is home to a trade mark dispute over the names of noodle restaurants. [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 2:46 pm
Because the District Court correctly held that Omega misused its copyright in the Globe Design by attempting to leverage its limited monopoly over the design to control the importation and sale of Seamaster watches, I would affirm the District Court on the issue of copyright misuse.Some would like to gave seen more on misuse: Writing on TechDirt, Mike Masnick opines: "While I understand why the majority ruling just went with the easy out with First Sale, it's too bad… [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 8:09 pm
"Court Soundly Rejects Watchmaker's Attempt To Abuse Copyright Law To Stop Sale Of Its Watches At Costco": At Techdirt, Mike Masnick has this post about a ruling that the U.S. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 9:21 pm
Frank Bruni, New York Times] Scalia, Epstein, many others: videos now online from the Federalist Society’s recently concluded 2014 National Lawyers Convention; List of firms with non-disparagement clauses (of highly dubious enforceability) purporting to forbid negative comments from customers [Tim Cushing, TechDirt] “Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans” [Philip K. [read post]
17 Jan 2015, 6:20 am
David Post has an interesting take here as does Mike Masnick on Techdirt here. [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 9:05 pm
” That includes TV personalities’ tweets disparaging to Glasgow [BBC, Alex Massie/Spectator, Elizabeth Nolan Brown] More: Calls mount for repeal of Australia Section 18C speech-crime law, which would ban the French magazine Charlie Hebdo if someone tried to publish it down there [Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, earlier on Andrew Bolt case] “Hate speech” concept got rolling when Stalin used it as weapon against democracies [Jacob Mchangama, Hoover, a while back] More… [read post]
27 Dec 2014, 2:19 am
2014. [read post]
24 Dec 2014, 3:39 am
Canada's new ISP notification system - the 'Notice and Notice' system is preparing to make it's entry on January 2nd 2015 with TechDirt opining "like the country's copyright reform efforts, it tries to actually incorporate the concerns of all parties involved (gasp, again). [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 3:15 am
Not I [Eli Lehrer, Weekly Standard] More from Mike Masnick at TechDirt: “it appears the MPAA and the major Hollywood studios directly funded various state Attorneys General in their efforts to attack and shame Google. [read post]
11 Dec 2014, 4:53 am
At Techdirt, Mike Masnick explains the technological emptiness of Valenti’s claim, noting Sarah Jeong’s post about how Content ID, the Youtube algorithm designed to match videos with a database of copyrighted content, that suffers endlessly from Type 1 and 2 errors. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 2:21 am
The music companies say that Cox should be held liable for the copyright infringement of its file-sharing customers because it has failed to respond in any way to notices alerting the company to the actions of its infringing users as provided by BMG and Round Hill's representative agency - the somewhat controversial Rightscorp Inc (described by techdirt as a "struggling copyright trolling operation") - and is therefor outside of DMCA 'safe… [read post]
3 Dec 2014, 7:01 am
Indeed, Mike Masnick at Techdirt raises this point against the California law (though he makes sure to note that Iniguez does indeed sound "horrible").But I think that California's law does not raise the same First Amendment problems as, say, Arizona's recently-halted attempt to criminalize revenge porn. [read post]
30 Nov 2014, 8:20 am
[Mike Masnick, TechDirt citing Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and This American Life] Tweet Tags: Department of Justice, guns, MilwaukeeStorefront ATF stings: Absolute Tom Foolery is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
24 Nov 2014, 8:44 am
” (Techdirt has been covering Roca Labs’ legal meltdowns in some detail). [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 5:14 am
Tim Cushing at Techdirt offers some highlights of the government’s view of how and why the government justifies its surveillance, contained in the just-released “oral arguments presented by Yahoo’s counsel (Mark Zwillinger) and the US Solicitor General (Gregory Garre). [read post]
13 Nov 2014, 5:30 am
After the tampering came to light late last month it was reported by The Washington Post and TechDirt. [read post]
12 Nov 2014, 8:12 pm
" And at Techdirt, Mike Masnick has a post titled "Appeals Court Finally Agrees To Rehear Horrible Ruling Over Actress' Supposed Copyright In 'Innocence Of Muslims.'" You can access today's order of the U.S. [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 3:36 am
And at Techdirt, Mike Masnick has difficulty distinguishing the holdings: I’m not entirely sure how to reconcile those two paragraphs. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 3:37 pm
Yes, Seriously" is Techdirt's account of the New York Pizzeria's scrap with Gina's Italian Kitchen, which foodandwine.com writes up as "Court Rules You Can't Trademark Flavor". [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 10:00 am
the Spanish Parliament has passed a law to levy a charge on aggregators and search engines for using snippets or linking to infringing content - with TechDirt saying "As plenty of folks have described, the bill is clearly just a Google tax". [read post]
