Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2]Techdirt Email. Stories from Saturday, November 14th, 2020 [3]This Week In Techdirt History: November 8th - 14th from the hindsight dept by Leigh Beadon - November 14th @ 12:00pm Five Years Ago This week in 2015, we looked at early warnings of the EU's [4]all-out attack on hyperlinks, while the silly Monkey Selfie lawsuit was [5]winding ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2]Techdirt Email. Stories from Friday, November 13th, 2020 [3]Donald Trump Argues That Use Of 'Electric Avenue' In Campaign Video Was Transformative from the um,-no dept by Timothy Geigner - November 13th @ 7:39pm The election is over and, no matter the current administration's [4]flailings, Joe Biden is now President Elect. It was, well, quite a ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2]Techdirt Email. Stories from Thursday, November 12th, 2020 [3]Beijing Ends Democracy In Hong Kong By Ousting Pro-Democracy Lawmakers from the game-over dept by Timothy Geigner - November 12th @ 7:56pm In the aftermath of our recent election, with all of the exuberance on one side and the laughable claims of stolen elections on the other, one under ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2]Techdirt Email. Stories from Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 [3]Happy 20th Birthday To 'No One Lives Forever', The Classic PC Game That Can't Be Sold Today Thanks To IP from the and-yet-it's-dead dept by Timothy Geigner - November 11th @ 7:40pm There are a great many interesting arguments we tend to have over both the purpose of copyright law and h ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2]Techdirt Email. Stories from Tuesday, November 10th, 2020 [3]Netflix Gets Cute Using DMCA Notices To Take Down Tweets Critical Of 'Cuties' from the too-cute-by-half dept by Timothy Geigner - November 10th @ 7:30pm Cuties, the stupid non-controversy against Netflix that simply will not go away. The film, which won awards at international film festi ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2]Techdirt Email. Stories from Monday, November 9th, 2020 [3]Aussie Brewer Keeps Digging Holes With Trademark Lawsuits, Now Owes Court Costs from the stop-digging dept by Timothy Geigner - November 9th @ 7:52pm If you can believe it, despite my storied fascination with the [4]intersection of trademark law and alcohol, one battle between two Austr ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2]Techdirt Email. Stories from Sunday, November 8th, 2020 [3]Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt from the so-sayeth dept by Leigh Beadon - November 8th @ 12:00pm This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is [4]wshuff with a response to the complaint that Sci-Hub has no incentive to [5]ensure accuracy or eth ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2]Techdirt Email. Stories from Saturday, November 7th, 2020 [3]This Week In Techdirt History: November 1st - 7th from the from-the-archives dept by Leigh Beadon - November 7th @ 12:00pm Five Years Ago This week in 2015, the UK government released [4]its "Snooper's Charter" surveillance bill after pretending it had [5]backed down ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2]Techdirt Email. Stories from Friday, November 6th, 2020 [3]Content Moderation Case Study: Google Refuses A Law Enforcement Agency Demand To Remove A Video Depicting Police Brutality (2011) from the government-takedowns dept by Copia Institute - November 6th @ 2:37pm Summary: Google began documenting government requests for content removal in 2009. ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2]Techdirt Email. Stories from Thursday, November 5th, 2020 [3]'Enola Holmes' Producers Go In Hard On Conan Doyle Estate In Motion To Dismiss Its Bullshit Lawsuit from the what's-up-holmes? dept by Timothy Geigner - November 5th @ 8:29pm Over the summer, we wrote about a very [4]strange lawsuit brought by the Estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle agai ...Continue Reading