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Jury Dumps Patent Used To Sue Facebook

Nearly two years ago, we wrote about a company, called Leader Technologies with an incredibly broad patent (<a href="http://www.google.com/patents?id=Ay99AAAAEBAJ&dq=7139761" target="_blank">7,139,761</a>) that covered associatin...
Don't Read Too Much Into The Claims That Intellectual Ventures Returns Are Negative

A bunch of folks have sent over the story from TechCrunch, based on a <a href="http://twitter.com/cdixon/status/19753519469" target="_blank">tweet from Chris Dixon</a> that patent hoarding giant Intellectual Ventures <a href="http://te...
White House Seeks Easier FBI Access To Internet Records, Blocks Oversight Attempt... Just As FBI Caught Cheating On Exam To Stop Abuse

We're still at a loss to explain why there's been so little outrage over the fact that the FBI <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100309/0012138472.shtml">got a total free pass</a> for its massive abuse in getting phone records. ...
UK Gov't Review Says Google WiFi Sniffing Didn't Sniff Anything Significant

It's been funny watching the usual anti-Google forces try to make something bigger out of Google's <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100514/1410159429.shtml">accidental WiFi sniffing</a> via its Street View vehicles. As has bee...
Forging Science: The Story Of How Famed Painting Authenticator Likely Duped The Art World

A couple years ago, on a whim, knowing nothing at all about the movie, I rented the documentary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_the_*$%26%25_Is_Jackson_Pollock%3F" target="_blank"><i>Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?<...
Comcast Cares: Pay Us The $0.00 You Owe, Or We Cut You Off

Years back, I was a Comcast cable modem subscriber. That was until they spent a whole month cutting off my service, every single day, from 10am until about 4:30pm. Each day I would call to ask what was up, and I was told it was "scheduled maintenan...
Software Firms Overwhelmingly Against Patents

There's been plenty of talk about whether or not software patents should be legal, and one of the "debates" we often run into in the comments is over whether or not the "software industry" really believes in patents or not. Some patent system suppor...
Second Lawsuit Over School Webcams Involves Student Who Was Photographed 469 Times Over 2 Months

Remember the school district in suburban Philadelphia involved in a lawsuit over <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100218/1056378228.shtml">secretly taking webcam images</a> of students? The school initially denied things, and ...
Perfect 10 Loses Again, As Court Says DMCA Notices Need To Be Properly Filed

Just last week we were talking about Perfect 10's lawsuit against Google in Canada, where we noted that in Perfect 10's own bragging press release, it effectively <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100719/10062310275.shtml">admits that...
Old Spice Man Gets Backed Up With A Few Numbers, Sales Up 107 Percent

With all of the <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100714/02461010208.shtml">buzz</a> lately around the fantastically successful Old Spice campaign, some numbers are finally starting to trickle in about whether or not the campaig...
Michael Jackson's Estate Complains About Dancing MJ Zombie In Game

<a href="http://stuckinthecube.blogspot.com">ReallyEvilCanine</a> alerts us to the news that the game <i>Plants vs. Zombies</i> has decided to <a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/102400-Michael-Jackson-Estate...
Lawyer For Mother Accused Of Killing Baby, Threatens Separate Lawsuit Over People Copying His Facebook Photos

Ah, the perils of lawyers confused about the internet. Reader kb alerts us to the news of lawyer Jose Baez, who apparently has received plenty of attention for defending Casey Anthony, a mother who stands accused of killing her 2-year-old child. A...
Barney Frank's Attempt To Allow & Tax Online Gambling Moves Forward (Again)

Back in 2006, some politicians included a bill that effectively <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20061002/124356.shtml">banned online gambling</a> as a part of a law designed to protect our ports (don't ask what one has to do wit...
Colbert Helps Save World From Polka Pirates

A few of you have sent in the fact that the Colbert Report recently did a fun segment <a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/341470/july-26-2010/nailed--em---polka-piracy" target="_blank">about a guy arrested for sellin...
Yes, People Can Comment On Content Business Models Without Having Produced Hit Content

We've seen it over and over again in the comments on Techdirt. We'll talk about the impact of copyright or patents, and a lawyer will claim that unless we're an IP lawyer, we should not comment. Or we'll talk about content business models for the m...
Wikileaks Afghan War Document Leak Again Raises Questions: Treason Or Whistleblowing?

A few weeks back, as part of our discussion on the <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100706/15453910085.shtml">arrest</a> of Bradley Manning for handing over classified documents to Wikileaks, we questioned where to draw the lin...
Can Man Who Found Long Lost Ansel Adams Glass Negatives Sell Prints?

Reader Ken points us to a "feel good" story of a guy, Rick Norsigian, who found a box of old glass negatives at a garage sale in 2000, which he bought for $45 (bargained down from the $70 the other guy wanted). It turns out that a bunch of experts h...
Dear Warner Bros., It's Not 'Word Of Mouth' If You Have To Pay People To Promote Your Movies

There was an amusing post this week at TheWrap.com discussing how the various Hollywood movie studios are <a href="http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/twitter-effect-its-real-not-what-we-thought-it-was-19484" target="_blank">confused about th...
Paramount Sends More Bogus DMCA Takedowns On Fans Filming Transformers 3 Shoot

Earlier this year, there was a reasonable bit of fuss over Paramount issuing a <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100513/2001309420.shtml">bogus DMCA takedown</a> on someone who had videotaped a brief snippet of the filming of th...
ASCAP Boss Refuses To Debate Lessig; Claims That It's An Attempt To 'Silence' ASCAP

We were among those who were amazed at ASCAP's misguided and factually incorrect <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100624/1640199954.shtml">attack</a> on EFF, Public Knowledge and Creative Commons. ASCAP's Paul Williams falsely...
ASCAP Boss Refuses To Debate Lessig; Claims That It's An Attempt To 'Silence' ASCAP

We were among those who were amazed at ASCAP's misguided and factually incorrect <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100624/1640199954.shtml">attack</a> on EFF, Public Knowledge and Creative Commons. ASCAP's Paul Williams falsely...

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