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The lawyers behind the Prenda Law "copyright trolling" enterprise have lost their key appeal and will have to pay more than $ 230,000 in sanctions.
The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit issued a 12-page ruling [PDF] upholding the sanction order that began Prenda's downfall, issued by US District Judge Otis Wright in...
Martin Shkreli, chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals LLC, exits federal court in New York, US, on Thursday, December 17, 2015. Shkreli was arrested on alleged securities fraud related to Retrophin Inc., a biotech firm he founded in 2011. (credit: Louis Lanzano/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Martin Shkreli won’t appear in court on Wednesday after all.
After...
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A lawyer representing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has demanded that several of the campaign's logos be removed from Wikipedia, saying that reproducing the logos violate copyright law. The Wikimedia Foundation has complied with the DMCA takedown notice and removed the notices.
It's fairly surprising that the campaign would seek to ban wide distribution of its logos, which are...
Yahoo's once-iconic San Francisco billboard, pictured here in 2011. (credit: Scott Schiller)
In late 2013, Yahoo was hit with six lawsuits over their practice of using automated scans of e-mail to produce targeted ads. The cases, which were consolidated in federal court, all argued that the privacy rights of non-Yahoo users, who "did not consent to Yahoo's interception and...
T-Mobile CEO John Legere. (credit: T-Mobile)
T-Mobile USA will soon meet with the Federal Communications Commission about whether its controversial “Binge On” program violates network neutrality rules. But even though T-Mobile is throttling video—and the rules ban throttling—the carrier might be able to convince the FCC that an exception should be made.
The rules—which face a...
