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<p><em><img src="/images/iti/iti-sun-intel-btn.png" alt="Sun / Intel" class="alignleft"/> This post is part of the IT Innovation series, sponsored by Sun & Intel. Read more at <a href="http://www.itinnovation.com/">IT...
The New Middleclass Musicians: I Fight Dragons

Obviously, we've been covering various stories of content creators who are making use of new methods and new ideas to build a successful business model in a very changed world. We get lots of content creators contacting us about what they're doing -...
Author's Guild Didn't Want To 'Pull An RIAA' But Still Misses The Point

Last week, in discussing its attempt to settle its lawsuit with Google over the Google book scanning project, the Authors Guild posted a rather interesting public letter, entitled <a href="http://www.authorsguild.org/advocacy/articles/riaa.html" t...
Verizon Wireless Blocks 4chan; You Would Think It Would Remember What Happened When AT&T Did That

Last summer, due to a DDOS attack emanating from IP addresses connected to 4chan, AT&T <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090726/1817155667.shtml">temporarily blocked access</a> to 4chan... without giving a full explanation f...
The Economist Notices That The Patent System Is Hindering Innovation And Needs To Be Fixed

A whole bunch of you are sending in one of the first mainstream articles I've see on patents that gets almost (but not quite) everything right. The Economist has a wonderful piece that clearly explains <a href="http://www.economist.com/sciencetec...
Remix Culture Is About The Culture As Much As The Remix

Over the weekend, I finally got to watch the film <a href="http://www.copyrightcriminals.com/" target="_blank"><i>Copyright Criminals</i></a> (after having seen <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100111/2220247711....
Why Shouldn't Jurors Be Able To Use Technology To Do More Research?

We've pointed out in the past that, eventually, the judicial system is going to have to come to terms with the fact that <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091214/0922277341.shtml">people use technology</a> to research and commun...
Court Disagrees On Whether Or Not Schools Can Punish Students Over Fake Social Network Pages

We were just discussing whether or not a school can <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100126/0810057903.shtml">punish students</a> for their social networking activity, and now we've got two legal rulings on the subject. Unfort...
Why Does The IEEE Make It So Difficult To Access And Share Research?

<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/profile.php?u=mattatx">Matt</a> points us to an article by Martin Rowe about <a href="http://www.tmworld.com/blog/Rowe_s_and_Columns/30177-Don_t_restrict_the_flow_of_technical_knowledge.php" target="_bl...
PayPal Suspends Payments In India?

After the story a few weeks ago about Paypal <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100124/1846137886.shtml">suspending</a> the account of Wikileaks, and blocking it from removing money in the account, many people pointed out how ris...
Italy Blocks The Pirate Bay Yet Again

Well, here we go again. A year and a half ago, an Italian court ordered ISPs to start <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080811/0048071938.shtml">blocking access to The Pirate Bay</a>. Oddly (and inexplicably) many ISPs redire...
How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation

Patent defenders often claim that patents are necessary because top venture capitalists would never invest without patents. And yet, we keep pointing to examples of some of the best venture capitalists in the business who are quite <a href="http:...
Because When MetroPCS Says 'No Contract,' It Actually Means 'Well, Of Course There's A Contract'

The mobile phone business seems to have a serious problem with taking words that have a pretty clear meaning in English, using them in advertising and marketing promotions -- but meaning something entirely different. For example, various mobile oper...
Appeals Court Says Internet Content Should Be Held To Standards Of Strictest Jurisdiction

One of the issues we've talked about repeatedly over the years is the question of what is the "internet jurisdiction." Since content is available anywhere there's an internet connection, under which laws should it apply. If you think that just beca...
Online Comic Book Store Stands Up To Olivia Munn Lawyers Over Parody Comic Book

<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/04/law-firm-demands-pub.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+(Boing+Boing)&utm_content=Google+Reader" target="_blank">Boing Boing...
Comcast CEO Argues Rules Will Protect Customers In Merger, While Comcast Lawyers Argue Rules Are Unconstitutional

Earlier, we had a story about NBC Universal boss Jeff Zucker being <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100204/1810198057.shtml">caught lying</a> in his Congressional testimony on the Comcast/NBC merger. And a bunch of folks have ...
Ten Good Reasons To Buy: The Newspaper Edition

Recently, Mike posted a concise list of <a target="_blank" href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20100125/1631147893.shtml">Ten Good Reasons to Buy</a> – one of two essential elements in the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.t...
UK Whistleblowers Highlight The Dangers Of Widespread Police Surveillance/Database

We've had numerous stories concerning some rather concerning trends in law enforcement, including the use of things like <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091218/1100537428.shtml">redlight cameras</a> to increase revenue, not ma...
No, Copyright Has Never Been About Protecting Labor

Ugh. So, we recently wrote about Matthew Yglesias' quite accurate <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100203/0255108023.shtml">economic explanation</a> for why the price of music was going to get pushed to zero, no matter what th...
USTR Insists Gov't Isn't Keeping ACTA Secret

Stan McCoy, the assistant US trade rep, is apparently the new point man from the USTR office on jaw-dropping political doublespeak about ACTA. You may recall a few days back when McCoy insisted that there was a lot of <a href="http://www.techdirt...
USTR Insists Gov't Isn't Keeping ACTA Secret

Stan McCoy, the assistant US trade rep, is apparently the new point man from the USTR office on jaw-dropping political doublespeak about ACTA. You may recall a few days back when McCoy insisted that there was a lot of <a href="http://www.techdirt...

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