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Michael Eisner: Exclusive, Professionally Produced Content Will Define The Internet
Date : 26 Nov 2008
TechdirtIt's no secret that former Disney boss, Michael Eisner, has a rather confused (and incorrect) view of how intellectual property wo read more »
LandAmerica files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (Reuters)
Date : 26 Nov 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Title insurer LandAmerica Financial Group Inc said it has filed for bankruptcy protection and its bigger rival Fidelity read more »
Reuters Bails On Second Life After Figuring Out It's Really Not That Interesting
Date : 26 Nov 2008 TechdirtOne of the sillier attempts by businesses to look cool by setting up shop in Second Life was that of Reuters, which assigned a rep read more »
It Ain't Easy To Get A Newspaper To Provide Useful Data
Date : 25 Nov 2008 TechdirtWe've discussed in the past the idea that newspapers today need to get beyond reporting the news and also move towards opening up read more »
Ex-AIG exec under probe by U.S. prosecutors: report (Reuters)
Date : 25 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Former American International Group Inc executive Joseph Cassano is under investigation by U.S. prosecutors for possibly read more »
Writers' Guild Claims Studios Ignoring Earlier Settlement As Actors Get Ready To Strike
Date : 25 Nov 2008 TechdirtWhile I have no doubt that the movie studios are being sleazy and underhanded in how it deals with both writers and actors concern read more »
British Goverment Loses A Computer A Week, But What About The Data?
Date : 25 Nov 2008 TechdirtNew stats from the British government show its various departments lost an average of one computer per week over the past year. Th read more »
NBC's Rick Cotton Apparently Unable To Properly Monetize Value
Date : 25 Nov 2008 TechdirtI'm beginning to wonder if NBC Universal simply sends General Counsel Rick Cotton out to the press to make the most ridiculous, un read more »
If You're On A Jury, You Probably Shouldn't Ask Your Facebook Friends For Their Guilty/Not Guilty Votes
Date : 25 Nov 2008 TechdirtApparently, a woman in the UK came up with a rather novel approach to "crowdsourcing," when she used Facebook to ask her friends h read more »
How Dr. Seuss's Lawyers Ruined Christmas
Date : 25 Nov 2008 TechdirtThanks to both Eric and Gunnar who simultaneously sent in the news of lawyers representing Dr. Seuss's estate who threatened the t read more »
Video Game Addiction Center Realizes That Compulsive Gamers Aren't Addicts
Date : 25 Nov 2008 TechdirtWe've discussed in the past how ridiculous it is to call video gaming an "addiction" when almost all of the evidence suggests that read more »
Is It McDonald's Responsibility To Stop Nude Photos From Getting Online?
Date : 25 Nov 2008 TechdirtI originally saw this story Sunday night, about a guy suing McDonald's over naked photos of his wife showing up online after he ac read more »
Once Again, Apple's 200 iPhone Patents Don't Stop Others From Claiming Infringement
Date : 25 Nov 2008 TechdirtYou may recall that Steve Jobs proudly hyped up the fact that Apple had filed over 200 patents on the technologies related to the read more »
Facebook Wins Nearly $1 Billion From Spammer Who Will Never Pay Up
Date : 25 Nov 2008 TechdirtIf only spammers actually had money and could be forced to pay up when they lose lawsuits... Facebook might have actually found a read more »
Defense In Lori Drew Case Rests, As Judge Considers Dismissing The Case
Date : 25 Nov 2008 TechdirtThe case against Lori Drew looks weaker and weaker by the day. The defense has rested its side, and the judge is considering whet read more »
New Patent Buying Firm Swears It'll Never Litigate Over Its Patents
Date : 25 Nov 2008 TechdirtWhen Intellectual Ventures first came about, Nathan Myhrvold convinced tech companies to back him, with a business plan that was a read more »
Newspaper Tries Going From Free To Paid
Date : 25 Nov 2008 TechdirtA few weeks back, I wrote how, economically speaking, online news has no choice but to go free over time. It's basically the same read more »
Nokia Reportedly Looking To Start Its Own MVNO In Japan
Date : 25 Nov 2008 TechdirtA local report says that Nokia is considering setting up an MVNO in Japan, focused on its high-end Vertu line of handsets. Nokia h read more »
Telcos: The Internet Will Collapse If The Gov't Doesn't Gives Us Lots Of Money
Date : 24 Nov 2008 TechdirtFor a while now, we've been noting that whenever you hear people warning about the impending broadband crunch, it's politicians, c read more »
Fake Engineer Tries To Get Lighter Sentence... By Faking References
Date : 24 Nov 2008 TechdirtWell, here's a fun one. A guy who was found guilty of faking his credentials to get a job as a maintenance engineer for the airli read more »
Video Game Schools Claim Ownership Of Games Created By Students
Date : 24 Nov 2008 TechdirtAn anonymous reader submitted an interesting article about a growing controversy among students at various video game universities read more »
Ad Watchdog Says Ad Videos (Viral Or Not) Need To Obey Truth-In-Advertising Rules
Date : 24 Nov 2008 TechdirtA few months ago, you may recall that there was a semi-popular "viral"video going around, showing a group of friends sitting aroun read more »
Germany Realizes That Music Samples Can Be Fair Use
Date : 24 Nov 2008 TechdirtOne of the absolute worst copyright decisions of the last few decades was the ruling in one of many Bridgeport lawsuits, which est read more »
Wall Street gets big boost from Citi bailout (Reuters)
Date : 24 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks jumped on Monday as investors applauded Washington's decision to rescue Citigroup in an effort to prevent fallout read more »
Hollywood's DVD Cash Cow Starting To Falter
Date : 24 Nov 2008 TechdirtDVDs are Hollywood studios' most significant moneymaker these days, but sales are falling: one service says they're off 9 percent read more »