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, July 28th, 2024 [3] Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt from the so-you-say dept by Leigh Beadon - July 28th @ 12:50pm This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous reply in [4]a discussion about how to deal with trolls: This kind of condescension mi ...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, July 27th, 2024 [3] This Week In Techdirt History: July 21st – 27th from the as-it-were dept by Leigh Beadon - July 27th @ 12:00pm Five Years Ago This week in 2019, we looked at how the [4]FTC’s settlement with YouTube pissed everyone off and how [5]its settlement with Facebook got everything ba ...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, July 26th, 2024 [3] 1st Circuit: No Immunity For School Officials Who Abused Wiretap Law To Hassle Someone For Recording Them from the no-free-pass-for-being-deliberately-obtuse dept by Tim Cushing - July 26th @ 7:39pm I don’t know what the legislative intent of Massachusetts wiretapping law was, but I can’ ...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, July 25th, 2024 [3] Lamar Jackson, Troy Aikman Fight Over ‘EIGHT’ Trademark, Showing The Absurdity Of Modern Trademark from the eight-eight-eight-eight-sue-me dept by Dark Helmet - July 25th @ 8:00pm For the non-sports loving crowd out there, here is something of a necessary primer. Lamar Jackson is the r ...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, July 24th, 2024 [3] Appeals Court Says Cop Whose Cop Dog Bit Another Cop Is Entitled To Qualified Immunity from the welcome-to-the-resistance,-officer-dogbit dept by Tim Cushing - July 24th @ 7:31pm Huh. Here’s something you definitely don’t see every day. But before we get to the ruling, let’s do a brie ...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, July 23rd, 2024 [3] Ridiculous: Restaurant Named “Bodega” Changes Name Under C&D Threat from the what's-in-a-name? dept by Dark Helmet - July 23rd @ 7:51pm It’s always frustrating to watch a trademark dispute occur when the marks in question are non-distinctive or generic in nature. Now, I want to be caref ...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, July 22nd, 2024 [3] Michigan’s Top Court Says It’s OK To Run From The Cops If They Have No Legitimate Reason To Stop You from the welcome-to-Constitution-Town,-boys dept by Tim Cushing - July 22nd @ 8:14pm Here’s a fun one, [4]coming to us via MLive, which at least let us know this exists, even if it ...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, July 21st, 2024 [3] Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt from the listen-up dept by Leigh Beadon - July 21st @ 12:00pm This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is [4]That One Guy with a comment about [5]Silicon Valley VCs lining up to back Trump and our supposition ...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, July 20th, 2024 [3] This Week In Techdirt History: July 14th – 20th from the as-i-recall dept by Leigh Beadon - July 20th @ 12:45pm Five Years Ago This week in 2019, [4]an opportunistic IBM sold out Section 230 while the Third Circuit joined the Ninth in [5]denying its protections to e-commer ...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, July 19th, 2024 [3] Hermes Sahaf Bookstore In Turkey Defeats Luxury Retailer’s Trademark Lawsuit from the thank-gods dept by Dark Helmet - July 19th @ 7:39pm Earlier this year, I [4]brought to you an absolute bonkers trademark lawsuit filed in Turkey by Hermes, the luxury brand, against Hermes Sahaf, an ...Continue Reading