http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121022/10072320787/italian-scientists-convicted-manslaughter-sentenced-to-6-years-jail-over-earthquake-they-failed-to-predict-properly.shtml#c1378 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:28:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121022/10072320787/italian-scientists-convicted-manslaughter-sentenced-to-6-years-jail-over-earthquake-they-failed-to-predict-properly.shtml#c1378
Maybe they are next.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120615/17334719354/funnyjunks-lawyer-charles-carreon-just-keeps-digging-promises-hell-find-some-law-to-go-after-oatmeals-matt-inman.shtml#c1642 Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:11:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120615/17334719354/funnyjunks-lawyer-charles-carreon-just-keeps-digging-promises-hell-find-some-law-to-go-after-oatmeals-matt-inman.shtml#c1642
Eh, what??]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120419/18163418570/chilling-effects-copyfraud-blocking-researcher-fair-use-scaring-him-into-staying-quiet-about-it.shtml#c1044 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:26:37 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120419/18163418570/chilling-effects-copyfraud-blocking-researcher-fair-use-scaring-him-into-staying-quiet-about-it.shtml#c1044
If not, why the reticence in discussing details?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120313/04501718088/collection-society-to-libraries-no-story-time-kids-unless-you-pay-to-read-aloud.shtml#c819 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:05:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120313/04501718088/collection-society-to-libraries-no-story-time-kids-unless-you-pay-to-read-aloud.shtml#c819 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120309/18103118061/guess-what-copying-still-isnt-stealing.shtml#c4772 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:48:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120309/18103118061/guess-what-copying-still-isnt-stealing.shtml#c4772 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20111229/17291917231/verizon-wireless-paying-online-is-more-convenient-so-now-you-have-to-pay-2-to-do-so.shtml#c19 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:24:54 PST http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20111229/17291917231/verizon-wireless-paying-online-is-more-convenient-so-now-you-have-to-pay-2-to-do-so.shtml#c19 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111229/16024817230/us-box-office-revenue-finally-drops-not-because-infringement.shtml#c463 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:39:46 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111229/16024817230/us-box-office-revenue-finally-drops-not-because-infringement.shtml#c463
More significant I think is competition from all the other movies made in the past.

You can't see them in theaters, but only via home rentals of some sort. With today's technology we are no longer restricted to seeing just the few films most recently released and being marketed, but can, at our leisure and on our own time, see any of tens of thousands of films.

I'd gladly have seen 3:10 to Yuma, Unforgiven, Gone With the Wind in theaters last year but they weren't showing anywhere so I watched them on Netflix.

There aren't enough cinemas to show even a fraction of films people want to watch and this is an inevitable consequence of today's technology.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111226/22012517190/righthavencom-domain-auction-has-begun.shtml#c192 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:04:40 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111226/22012517190/righthavencom-domain-auction-has-begun.shtml#c192
"IC 042. US 100 101. G & S: Searching and retrieving information, sites, and other resources available on computer networks for others. FIRST USE: 20100301. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20100301"]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111116/13243616795/thoughts-house-judiciary-committees-hearings-sopa.shtml#c997 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:11:33 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111116/13243616795/thoughts-house-judiciary-committees-hearings-sopa.shtml#c997
Does anyone think for a minute that the Attorney General, or the ISPs or anyone else will be interested in, or capable of, identifying infringements of photographs, poems, fonts, children's drawings, quotations, logos and distinguishing them from licensed usages or fair use? Not a chance.

This in effect provides for elevated copyright protection for a very small subset of content, films and music, supported and paid for by MPAA and RIAA.

Not a good idea at all.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110328/22060313665/emperors-new-paywall.shtml#c372 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:51:12 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110328/22060313665/emperors-new-paywall.shtml#c372
$35 a month is way way too high in my opinion. When I found out you could get full digital subscription by subscribing the Weekend Book Review for $1.75 a week I signed up. That's about $7.50 a month, which is more reasonable (the right price, I'd say, would be $4.99 a month)

They since seem to have disabled the link, but you might still be able to get a subscription.

As for hacks, the easiest way of all I found was to go to nytimes.com and then instead of clicking on links, do a right-click-copy-link-open-new-window-paste. No ?args. No paywall.

Even so that's a pain and I chose the $7.50 a month instead.

I donate $1 + a month to you, Mike, and they write many more stories than you do.

Making it a highly porous barrier may turn out to be a fair compromise. Traffic will tell.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110308/02354213395/massive-research-report-piracy-emerging-economies-released-debunks-entire-foundation-us-foreign-ip-policy.shtml#c325 Tue, 8 Mar 2011 14:46:40 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110308/02354213395/massive-research-report-piracy-emerging-economies-released-debunks-entire-foundation-us-foreign-ip-policy.shtml#c325 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110307/11561113386/ny-times-lawyers-shut-down-blog-promoting-ny-times.shtml#c124 Mon, 7 Mar 2011 13:01:54 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110307/11561113386/ny-times-lawyers-shut-down-blog-promoting-ny-times.shtml#c124 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110301/02345813309/guy-passing-out-pamphlets-front-court-indicted-jury-tampering.shtml#c1102 Wed, 2 Mar 2011 14:37:38 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110301/02345813309/guy-passing-out-pamphlets-front-court-indicted-jury-tampering.shtml#c1102
http://volokh.com/2011/02/25/suppression-of-jury-nullification-advocates-speech-outside-courthouse/]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101206/10223012145/netflixs-move-dvds-to-streaming-shows-massive-value-first-sale-doctrine.shtml#c122 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:58:11 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101206/10223012145/netflixs-move-dvds-to-streaming-shows-massive-value-first-sale-doctrine.shtml#c122
But a reasonable solution could be that if they buy (license) say, 10,000 copies at the dvd price, then they can stream up to 10,000 simultaneous showings of a movie.

It wouldn't be too much of a hardship for viewers to understand that all the available films are being watched at some particular time and Netflix could manage their purchased to meet demand just like they do now with physical dvds.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101203/09510612115/ubisofts-new-drm-vuvuzelas.shtml#c465 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:05:36 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101203/09510612115/ubisofts-new-drm-vuvuzelas.shtml#c465
Did Ubisoft get licenses from the copyright holders, the vuvu players, or did they just take the recordings and use them?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101207/23213212175/breast-cancer-charity-bullying-other-charities-over-trademark.shtml#c292 Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:22:33 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101207/23213212175/breast-cancer-charity-bullying-other-charities-over-trademark.shtml#c292 http://tess2.uspto.gov/

Search Term: Susan G Komen
Field: Owner Name and Address
Result Must Contain: All Search Terms

295 results don't seem to include the color. but lots of phrases.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101207/23213212175/breast-cancer-charity-bullying-other-charities-over-trademark.shtml#c273 Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:16:37 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101207/23213212175/breast-cancer-charity-bullying-other-charities-over-trademark.shtml#c273
I am a photographer. If I set up a website called "Red Cross Health Photographs" with a large red cross logo, I would expect customers to be confused and the real Red Cross to have an excellent case against me.

That said, there is no doubt a trademark owner can be overly agressive is asserting broad rights where there may be little or no real customer confusion.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101207/23213212175/breast-cancer-charity-bullying-other-charities-over-trademark.shtml#c186 Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:25:59 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101207/23213212175/breast-cancer-charity-bullying-other-charities-over-trademark.shtml#c186
http://definitions.uslegal.com/n/naked-license/

"licensing is generally permitted provided that the mark]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101206/11325112148/us-copyright-czar-expect-more-domain-censorship.shtml#c44 Mon, 6 Dec 2010 15:08:38 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101206/11325112148/us-copyright-czar-expect-more-domain-censorship.shtml#c44
Except for one tiny problem. Aside from fair use, a copyrighted photo online may actually be licensed and there is no way to tell the license terms.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101122/12544311971/why-murdochs-ipad-only-newspaper-misses-point.shtml#c53 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:57:35 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101122/12544311971/why-murdochs-ipad-only-newspaper-misses-point.shtml#c53
no print edition + no web edition = no history + no links

Rather than support creativity, this product makes the creative works disposable.]]>