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Self Plagiarism And The Creative Process
Date : 26 Sep 2008
TechdirtLast year, we had a post looking at the question of joke "stealing" and if it should be seen as infringement. Basically, there ar read more »
Does Email Make You Lie More?
Date : 26 Sep 2008 TechdirtDoes a more impersonal means of communication make it easier to... stretch the truth? Apparently, a new study found that people t read more »
NAB Trying To Cut Off Pandora's Air Supply
Date : 26 Sep 2008 TechdirtWe've already covered how Pandora will most likely need to shut down, if the royalty rates set for web streaming aren't changed. read more »
Fleeing WaMu deposits sent regulators scrambling (Reuters)
Date : 26 Sep 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - As depositors lost confidence in Washington Mutual Inc , and began emptying their accounts, regulators abandoned hopes o read more »
Has Italy Outlawed Unregistered Blogs?
Date : 26 Sep 2008 TechdirtOver the past year or so, we've noticed a string of stories coming out of Italy that suggests a rather odd legal viewpoint when it read more »
Senate Gives The White House A Copyright Czar
Date : 26 Sep 2008 TechdirtThe Senate has now unanimously passed the new entertainment industry-approved copyright legislation that was proposed by Senator L read more »
JPMorgan sells $10 billion shares, faces Q3 loss (Reuters)
Date : 26 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - JPMorgan Chase & Co capped off its purchase of Washington Mutual Inc on Friday by selling $10 billion of stock, more t read more »
CORRECTED: Congress bickers over bailout (Reuters)
Date : 26 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The biggest bank failure in U.S. history and nose diving banking stocks added pressure on the U.S. Congress to agree to read more »
Wachovia hunts for a merger partner: reports (Reuters)
Date : 26 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Wachovia Corp has begun early merger talks with several suitors, according to published reports, all of which spurned W read more »
Judge Orders Newspaper Not To Report On Lawsuit Brought By The Newspaper
Date : 26 Sep 2008 TechdirtRomenesko points us to the news that a judge overseeing a lawsuit between the OC Register (the newspaper) and newspaper delivery w read more »
Wall Street bucks downtrend on hopes of US financial rescue (AFP)
Date : 26 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAFP - Global markets saw more tension Friday as the White House and Congress wrangled over a proposed bailout of the ailing financ read more »
Dow, S&P gain on bailout hopes, Nasdaq slips (Reuters)
Date : 26 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks ended mostly higher on Friday as big bank shares staged a late rally on hopes lawmakers would hammer out an agree read more »
Australia Considers Overhauling Patent Laws After Realizing Current System Is Harming Innovation
Date : 26 Sep 2008 TechdirtTIIP points us to the news that the Australian government is considering an overhaul of that country's patent system after being p read more »
The RIAA's Playbook: No New Business Models Without RIAA Ownership
Date : 26 Sep 2008 TechdirtMathew Ingram covers the details of Muxtape's run-in with the RIAA. As you may recall, last month the rather useful site that let read more »
New York probing credit-default swap market: source (Reuters)
Date : 26 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who last week began investigating short-selling abuses in the stock market, is n read more »
California Interested In Open Source E-Voting Solutions
Date : 26 Sep 2008 TechdirtWith so many problems with various e-voting systems, many have wondered why various state governments don't simply require any e-v read more »
Wachovia, National City shares tumble on bailout, WaMu (Reuters)
Date : 26 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Shares of Wachovia Corp and National City Corp tumbled on worries about heavy mortgage losses, as talks on a $700 bill read more »
SEC ends program to oversee investment banks (Reuters)
Date : 26 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is ending its program to supervise large independent investment banks now th read more »
Amazing What You Can Do When You Don't Sue Your Fans
Date : 26 Sep 2008 TechdirtI was a bit surprised at how many people sent in the news that Trent Reznor had sent around a survey to fans who are on the Nine I read more »
WaMu may file for bankruptcy shortly: Merrill Lynch (Reuters)
Date : 26 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Washington Mutual may file for bankruptcy shortly, said Merrill Lynch analyst Kenneth Bruce terminating coverage of the read more »
Press Not Buying Google Street View As A Threat To Children
Date : 26 Sep 2008 TechdirtA few months back, we pointed out how ridiculous it was that a child advocacy group had put out a scary press release claiming tha read more »
Time For A Moron In A Hurry To Explain The Difference Between Microprocessors And A Trip To China
Date : 26 Sep 2008 TechdirtIntel is famous for being overly aggressive in trying to enforce its trademark, often claiming rights over almost any use of the p read more »
Homeland Security Gets Closer To Minority Report-Style Crime Predictor
Date : 26 Sep 2008 TechdirtEver since the film Minority Report came out, we've seen a series of stories about efforts to predict future crimes before they ha read more »
HSBC cutting 1,100 global banking and markets jobs (Reuters)
Date : 26 Sep 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - HSBC Holdings , Europe's biggest bank, said on Friday it was cutting 1,100 jobs in its global banking and markets operat read more »
Independent Record Labels Missing From MySpace Music
Date : 26 Sep 2008 TechdirtThe success of MySpace was helped along quite a bit by independent and non-major-label musicians using the site as a distribution read more »