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, June 1st, 2021 [3]Are Partial Liability Rules The Path Forward For Intermediary Liability Regimes? Lessons Learned From Brazil from the marco-civil dept by Bruna Martins dos Santos and Diego Canabarro - June 1st @ 8:32pm The past year saw the Internet become a lifeline during the COVID-19 pandemic. But 2020 al ...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, May 30th, 2021 [3]Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt from the chitchat dept by Leigh Beadon - May 30th @ 12:00pm This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is [4]Darkness Of Course with a response to the everpresent complaints from one... prolific commenter about [5]su ...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, May 29th, 2021 [3]This Week In Techdirt History: May 23rd - 29th from the memory-palace dept by Leigh Beadon - May 29th @ 1:00pm Five Years Ago This week in 2016, Paramount announced its intention to [4]back down from its lawsuit against the fan film Axanar, though not before the filmmakers [5]got ...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, May 28th, 2021 [3]Unofficial Amiibo Guidebook Will Be Released With Changes To Appease Nintendo from the officially-unofficial dept by Timothy Geigner - May 28th @ 7:39pm Just a couple of weeks ago, we [4]discussed a Kickstarter project for an unofficial guidebook to Nintendo's Amiibo product line. While no ...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, May 27th, 2021 [3]High School Teacher's Copyright Suit Against Netflix Gets Dismissed Because Coincidence Isn't Protectable from the class-dismissed dept by Timothy Geigner - May 27th @ 8:07pm Of all the areas that result in copyright lawsuits that never should have been filed, it surely must be ignorance of ...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, May 26th, 2021 [3]Warner Bros. Bullies Airbnb Hobbit-Themed Offering Into Changing Its Name Over 'Hobbit' Trademark from the napoleon-complex dept by Timothy Geigner - May 26th @ 7:56pm We've covered intellectual property issues that revolve around Tolkien's Lord of the Rings properties before. By now, every ...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, May 25th, 2021 [3]Getting Absurd: Twitch Creates A 'Hot Tub' Channel, Says It Should Have Communicated With Streamers About Demonitization from the sigh dept by Timothy Geigner - May 25th @ 7:58pm Twitch seems to be putting on some sort of master class in how to respond to a crisis on its platform in as confus ...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, May 24th, 2021 [3]Milwaukee Sewerage District Threatens Menards Over Fertilizer Sales from the oh-shit dept by Timothy Geigner - May 24th @ 8:24pm We have certainly seen some shitty trademark disputes in the past, but this one that centers around lawn fertilizer may take the proverbial cake. Apparently, the Mil ...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, May 23rd, 2021 [3]Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt from the dye-a-log dept by Leigh Beadon - May 23rd @ 12:00pm This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is David with a comment about the [4]cop accused of beating up another cop: So the only reason he is on trial ...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, May 22nd, 2021 [3]This Week In Techdirt History: May 16th - 22nd from the memory-lane dept by Leigh Beadon - May 22nd @ 12:00pm Five Years Ago This week in 2016, we were digging deeper into the [4]Oracle/Google fight over the Java API and the challenges therein. Comcast was trying to claim that it wasn ...Continue Reading