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  SoftBank Owned Patent Troll, Using Monkey Selfie Law Firm, Sues To Block Covid-19 Testing, Using Theranos Patents | Techdirt

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  SoftBank Owned Patent Troll, Using Monkey Selfie Law Firm, Sues To Block Covid-19 Testing, Using Theranos Patents Honestly, I wasn't sure how to begin this story or how to fit all the insanity into the title. It's a story involving patents, patent trolling, Covid-19, Theranos, and even the company that brought us all WeWork: SoftBank. Oh, and also Irell & Manella, the same law firm that once claim

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  • 2020/03/17 22:05

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  Surprise: Register Of Copyrights Expected To Call For Reduction In Copyright Term | Techdirt

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  For a long time now, the idea of an overhaul of copyright law in the US has mostly been seen as a pipedream. However, it appears that the Register of Copyright, Maria Pallante, may actually be angling for a major bit of copyright reform. Coming up next Wednesday, she's going to be testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on her supposed "Call for Updates to U.S. Copyright Law." Apparently,

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  • 2013/03/18 15:22

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  Universal Music Uses Bogus DMCA Claim To Take Down Negative Review Of Drake's Album | Techdirt

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  Universal Music Uses Bogus DMCA Claim To Take Down Negative Review Of Drake's Album We keep talking about how the DMCA takedown process, all too frequently, is used to stifle speech, and defenders of the system claim that it's ridiculous to bring up the First Amendment in a discussion on copyright. But here's yet another (in a very long list) of examples. Henry Adaso wrote a short, but marginally

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  • 2012/08/18 17:03

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  Why Netflix Never Implemented The Algorithm That Won The Netflix $1 Million Challenge | Techdirt

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  Why Netflix Never Implemented The Algorithm That Won The Netflix $1 Million Challenge You probably recall all the excitement that went around when a group finally won the big Netflix $1 million prize in 2009, improving Netflix's recommendation algorithm by 10%. But what you might not know, is that Netflix never implemented that solution itself. Netflix recently put up a blog post discussing some o

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  What If Tim Berners-Lee Had Patented The Web? | Techdirt

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  You may have seen the stories a week or so ago about how it was the 20th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee putting up the first web page. While many, many people still confuse "the web" with "the internet," Berners-Lee's creation really did help take what was mostly a system used by a few nerds (myself include) and add the elements that made it possible to go mainstream in a big, big, big way. And wh

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  • 2011/08/14 04:03

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  Digitizing Your Own Books Becoming Popular In Japan - techdirt

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  Tim O'Reilly points us to a new report out of Japan, noting that it's becoming increasingly popular for people to digitize their own books (a practice called "jisui"). Yes, they're taking books they legally own and scanning them, so that they can store them as ebooks, and read them on various devices such as the iPad. I would have thought this wasn't a popular practice, but at least one study foun

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  • 2010/08/25 19:31

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  Why Big Companies Almost Never Notice Disruptive Innovation | Techdirt

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  Paul Graham has written one of his typically worth-reading essays about why Yahoo! went from the darling of the internet world in the mid- to late-90's to whatever it is today (an also-ran's also-ran). I don't have much to say on the main point of the essay, so if you're interested in that, go read it. However, what did catch my eye, was one little aside about trying to get Yahoo to buy Google soo

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  • 2010/08/21 11:31
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  No, The Apple Tablet Won't Save Publishing Nor Will It End 'Free' | Techdirt

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  No, The Apple Tablet Won't Save Publishing Nor Will It End 'Free' We've been seeing an awful lot of chatter in the past couple months over the idea that some sort of "tablet" will somehow "save" the media business by suddenly making people start paying for content again. We've yet to see any sort of analysis that explains why. Nearly all of it seems to be from journalists who are involved in wishf

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  • 2010/01/27 12:22

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  Unlike The AP, It Looks Like Reuters Recognizes The Future | Techdirt

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  Unlike The AP, It Looks Like Reuters Recognizes The Future About a year and a half ago, we wrote about a talk given by the CEO of the Associated Press, Tom Curley, supposedly about the future of journalism. It was a very strange speech. It talked about recognizing how times were changing and how the AP could no longer be a "gatekeeper." And... then spent a large portion talking about how the AP wa

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  Wait, Is The Newspaper Business Thriving Or Falling Apart? | Techdirt

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  Wait, Is The Newspaper Business Thriving Or Falling Apart? It would appear that the folks in the newspaper business don't quite have their talking points set. Yesterday, we showed the letter from the Newspaper Association of America all about how the newspaper business was supposedly thriving despite what you may have heard. But clearly, not everyone in the industry agrees. A whole bunch of folks

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  • 2009/06/03 13:23
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  Newspaper Association Insists That Only Newspapers Can Do Real Reporting | Techdirt

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  An anonymous employee of a decent sized newspaper forwarded me a letter sent out to employees by John Sturm, the head of the Newspaper Assocation of America called The Reality About Newspapers. It's embedded below: It lists out a series of 7 "myths" about newspapers, followed by the reality. The first 6 myths are actually good points that we absolutely agree with. Basically, it says the newspaper

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  • 2009/06/02 08:17
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  Newspapers Betting On The Past May Find Themselves In Trouble In The Future | Techdirt

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  Newspapers Betting On The Past May Find Themselves In Trouble In The Future One of the "examples" held up by newspaper folks, who think that charging online is the answer, is the "success" of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. However, Jay Rosen points us to Mark Potts excellent analysis of what's happening at the Democrat-Gazette and the conclusion is that the "success" is a lot more questionable tha

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  • 2009/05/21 14:30
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  Wait... Wouldn't Micropayments Be Bad For Journalism? | Techdirt

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  Wait... Wouldn't Micropayments Be Bad For Journalism? It's been funny watching newspaper execs and journalists go on and on and on about how important it is to "save journalism" and then come up with plans that will likely hasten the demise of newspapers -- such as micropayments. We've discussed in great detail why micropayments are unlikely to work (they've pretty much failed everywhere they've b

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  • 2009/05/15 18:49
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  Yes, A Newspaper Can Survive If It Focuses On The Community | Techdirt

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  Yes, A Newspaper Can Survive If It Focuses On The Community When it comes to newspaper business models, we've been saying over and over again that the problem has never been about "free" vs. "paid" but the fact that newspapers have never done a very good job enabling their communities. It comes from the fact that many newspapers incorrectly think they're in the business of selling news to people.

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  • 2009/03/25 20:41

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  Time For Journalists To Take A Lesson From (Smart) Musicians | Techdirt

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  These days there are a few types of stories we see and write about consistently: (1) the legacy recording industry's troubles in adapting to a changing market, (2) the ability of a bunch of motivated, smart musicians, bucking the old way of doing things and finding tremendous success and (3) the legacy newspaper industry's troubles in adapting to a changing market. Given (1) and (2), you would thi

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  • 2009/01/02 01:30

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  Google's Browser Is A Warning Shot At Windows, Not At Internet Explorer | Techdirt

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  Google's Browser Is A Warning Shot At Windows, Not At Internet Explorer About four years ago there were all sorts of rumors that Google was getting ready to enter the browser wars with its own offering, most likely built on Mozilla's code. However, after years of nothing (and an increasingly close relationship between Mozilla and Google), many had thought that idea was dead. Apparently not. After

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  • 2008/09/03 00:43

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  Yahoo Needs To Pull An Apple Before It Becomes A Netscape | Techdirt

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  from the can-jerry-yang-channel-his-inner-steve-jobs? dept By now, of course, you've seen the story of the weekend: Microsoft walking away from its offer to Yahoo, after first raising its bid (though not high enough for Yahoo). Microsoft chose not to go hostile recognizing that would make a bad situation even worse -- in part because Yahoo made it clear that it would swallow its own type of a pois

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  • 2008/05/05 21:05

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  Details Come Out On eBay/Craigslist Fight | Techdirt

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  Some details have come out on the eBay-Craigslist lawsuit that was in the news last week. Ebay has released its filings in the lawsuit, suggesting pretty much exactly what you'd expect, with a few exceptions. There was a clause in the original agreement between the two companies if one started competing with each other -- allowing the other to resell shares without a right of first refusal. When e

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  • 2008/05/01 20:58
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  Great Firewall Of Japan? Japan Proposes Regulating The Internet | Techdirt

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  Great Firewall Of Japan? Japan Proposes Regulating The Internet It appears that the Japanese government is growing a bit jealous of China's ability to censor anything the government doesn't like online. The Japanese government has proposed new internet regulations that would effectively do the same thing -- requiring Japanese ISPs to filter content that is considered "harmful." As the article note

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  • 2008/04/05 05:33

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  Hey Zucker, Did NBC Get Money From Zenith For TVs All Those Years? | Techdirt

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  Hey Zucker, Did NBC Get Money From Zenith For TVs All Those Years? It's been really disappointing to watch NBC make pretty much all the wrong moves in the digital entertainment space over the last few years. Recently, it's been getting more and more ridiculous in its bizarre attempts to blame everyone else for its problems -- and I think it's time to pin the problem squarely on NBC boss Jeff Zucke

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  YouTube Tries On The Skype Billion Dollar Buyout Plan For Size | Techdirt

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  YouTube Tries On The Skype Billion Dollar Buyout Plan For Size A year ago, we were amazed at how Skype's founders and investors more or less manipulated the press into claiming the company (which had made very little money) was worth $1 billion, then $3 billion just a short while later, only to end up at $4.1 billion only a couple months later. The numbers are hard to justify no matter how you loo

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  Which Is More Important: Technology Or Community? | Techdirt

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  There's an interesting little blurb making the rounds today about Rupert Murdoch claiming Google could have bought MySpace three months before he did at half the price. That's interesting in its own right -- but in thinking about how few acquisitions of this type Google does, it becomes clear that Google values technology over community by a long shot. The reason Google didn't want to buy MySpace

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  • 2006/06/28 02:55

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  Is Adsense Killing Google? | Techdirt

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  Last Friday, the Motley Fool had an interesting article that's getting some discussion about how Google is killing the internet. The argument is basically that Google killed its own golden goose of Adwords, with its introduction of Adsense contextual advertising for other sites. Once that began, so began a huge (and ever growing) industry of creating totally bogus sites whose only purpose is to ru

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  • 2006/06/12 20:33

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  Rethinking The Book | Techdirt

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  Kevin Kelly has written up a fascinating piece for the NY Times Magazine about issues involved in various book scanning projects. While it covers some ground that's been covered before, where it shines is not in focusing on the legal dispute and issues of copyright, but in what such a massive online database of books could mean. When it comes to revolutionary applications of technology, it's never

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  • 2006/05/17 00:57

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  Techdirt Wireless | Techdirt.

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  With smartphone sales plateauing the last few years, handset vendors and wireless carriers have worked overtime trying to make 5G seem like it's something utterly revolutionary in the hopes of driving more phone upgrades. The problem: U.S. 5G is more evolutionary than revolutionary. And researchers who've been running U.S. 5G networks through their paces have made it clear that U.S. 5G is much slo

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  • 2006/05/05 20:57

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  Online Publishers Upset That Google Helps People Find Them | Techdirt

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  Is there anyone in the content business who won't eventually shoot themselves in the foot by misunderstanding the internet? While the debate over Google Print has been going on for a while, a few perceptive folks have mentioned that it was only a matter of time before the idea jumped to the internet as a whole. If what Google is doing with Google Print is considered copyright infringement, how is

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  • 2005/12/10 00:02

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  Google Forgets The Wow With New IM Client | Techdirt

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  Rumors of a Google instant messenger launch turned out to be true tonight with the launch of Google Talk. After playing with Google Talk for a bit, most find that Google Talk lacks the "Google Wow" factor of previous Google product launches. Google Talk is missing any sort of search, doesn't save conversation histories, and requires a GMail account (which is frustrating since that means your frien

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  • 2005/08/25 07:42

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  Techdirt.

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  Let's be clear: despite ample rhetoric to the contrary, U.S. broadband has always been a mediocre mess. Despite decades of incalculable industry handouts and political lip service, 42 million Americans (double official FCC estimates) still lack access to any broadband whatsoever. 83 million Americans are trapped under a broadband monopoly. Tens of millions more Americans are stuck with a duopoly,

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