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Morons In A Hurry Can Raise Their Glasses Of Glenora Whisky Proudly Again

What is it with the silly food related trademark battles we keep hearing about lately? First there were <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090605/0803465138.shtml">Idaho potatoes</a>, then <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/art...
Why Is It So Difficult To Understand The Difference Between A Platform And A User?

In the US, thanks to safe harbor rules in the DMCA and the CDA, courts will often toss out misdirected lawsuits that go after a service provider for the actions of a user. To be honest, I've always questioned why we need such safe harbors in the fir...
Oh Look, Citizen Journalists Can Do Real Investigative Reporting

The newspaper people will tell you that if they are obliterated by the evil internets one of the big loses will be investigative journalism. If it hadn’t been for those gritty investigative journalists the newspaper hires there’d...
Canadian TV Station Selectively Issuing Copyright Takedowns?

A couple people have sent in this story, where the Canadian TV station Business News Network is apparently <a href="http://www.ccer.ca/canadian-copyright-reform/bnn-trying-to-silence-the-canadian-copyright-debate/" target="_new">issuing takedow...
Judge Tosses Out Lori Drew Ruling

The Lori Drew <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081126/1223412965.shtml">verdict</a> finding her guilty of computer hacking because she may have broken MySpace's terms of service (without even having read them) was a classic exa...
New Jersey Politician Adds Most GPS Devices To Driver Distractions To Ban

We've pointed out time and time again how silly it is for politicians to run around trying to <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090202/0331093607.shtml">ban each and every driver distraction</a>, rather than just focusing on bee...
Blizzard The Latest To Kill Features, Call It An Upgrade

A bunch of folks have been sending in variations on the news that Blizzard has <a href="http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/696991/TheFeed.html?utm_source=g4tv&utm_medium=twitterblog&utm_campaign=twitterblog_thefeed&intcid...
Even More eMusic Features Disabled?

This is really unfortunate. eMusic used to be a <i>great</i> example of how treating customers right and with respect and trust could win over more customers -- but in the last month or so, it seems like the company is throwing all that ...
Another City Caught Lowering Yellow Light Times To Catch More Red Light Runners

It's been shown repeatedly that redlight cameras don't appear to make intersections any safer, but they do act as a nice revenue generator for cities. In fact, at times it's such a tempting revenue generator that city officials cannot resist the urg...
District Court Bans 'Catcher In The Rye' Sequel; Since When Did The US Ban Books?

Last month, we wrote about a lawsuit from JD Salinger over an attempt to publish a <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090602/0734325094.shtml">"sequel"</a> to Salinger's famous <i>Catcher in the Rye</i> written by Fre...
Jammie Thomas Decides To Appeal Constitutionality Of $1.92 Million Damages Award

As we <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090630/0313285411.shtml">speculated</a> earlier this week, given the silence from the Jammie Thomas camp since the <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090618/1533065283.shtml"&g...
Taiwan Regulators Tell Dell It Must Sell Mispriced Monitors At $15

Ever since e-commerce began there have been stories of mispriced items -- and following that, stories of the mad rush to buy the mispriced product (especially when it involves misplaced decimals, shrinking the price by orders of magnitude). In the U...
The Real Problem For The Music Industry Is... Interest Rates?

<a href="http://twitter.com/cybeardjm/statuses/2404170380" target="_new">Cybeardjm</a> points us to a story from Billboard about a claim from the head of PRS in the UK, noting that the <a href="http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_di...
Forget Suing Google, Now It's Craigslist That's A Target For Misplaced Lawsuit

It's been quite common for companies to sue <i>Google</i> when a competitor puts up an ad that references their own trademarks. This is misguided in any number of ways: first, as long as the ad itself is not confusing such that the reade...
Tehran Bureau Shows That If There's A Need, Reporting Will Get Done

The rallying cry of newspaper old timers who insist that "reporting" will die off if newspapers go away, but that ignores the fact that, if there's a true need, reporting will find a way. Andy Roon points us to <a href="http://www.npr.org/templat...
Google Quietly Kills Off Its Commentary Feature For News

Back in 2007, Google <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070808/134517.shtml">released</a> a feature for its News service that let folks comment on news stories. However, there were some weird quirks to it (eg. you had to be some...
Insider Trading Suspected In The Pirate Bay Sale

The whole story of the supposed <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090630/0104135410.shtml">sale</a> of The Pirate Bay gets odder and odder as more news comes out. Beyond the <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090701...
Latest Thing To Blame On Google? Koi Thieves

It seems these days you can try to blame just about anything on Google. The latest? <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/5673044/Thieves-using-Google-Earth-to-steal-koi-carp.html" target="_new">Koi thieve...
A Brief History Of Intellectual Property In China And India

<i>This is the second post in a series of posts looking at the question of intellectual property rights in both China and India. We'll be adding new posts to this series each week for the next few weeks.</i> <p>To fully understa...
Copyright Insanity: The Need To Get Licenses Just To Demonstrate A Legal Point

Over at Against Monopoly, Alistair Kelman, points out yet another <a href="http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000001200" target="_new">quirky problem with copyright law</a>. He's discussing a book by Ron Rosen, who w...
Copyright Insanity: The Need To Get Licenses Just To Demonstrate A Legal Point

Over at Against Monopoly, Alistair Kelman, points out yet another <a href="http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000001200" target="_new">quirky problem with copyright law</a>. He's discussing a book by Ron Rosen, who w...

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