On 12 October 2021, Mr. Roberto Manno, appointed by the Czech Arbitration Court as the only panellist, ordered the transfer of the SONYLOTTERY.COM, SONY-PRIZE.COM and SONYPRIZE.COM domain names to Sony Group Corporation, owner of the well-known trademark(s) SONY. In particular, firstly, Mr.…
Source: Techdirt.com Law enforcement keeps bumping into Tor, as Techdirt has reported many times over the years. So it's understandable that the authorities are always looking for ways to subvert and circumvent the extra protection that Tor can offer…
Source: Techdirt.com Paul Alan Levy is once again reporting on stupid legal threats made by a stupid company with a stupid non-disparagement clause hidden deep in its clickwrap. In addition, there's an apparently stupid lawyer involved. I do not…
Source: Techdirt.com The (still) new Librarian of Congress created a bit of a fuss last year in effectively forcing the existing Register of Copyrights, Maria Pallante, (the head of the US Copyright Office) out of a job. Pallante has…
Source: Techdirt.com We've become accustomed to the NSA's infamous Glomar responses. The agency is fond of telling FOIA requesters that it's not saying it has the sought-after documents on hand, but it's also not not saying that either. It's…
Source: Techdirt.com Five Years Ago This week in 2012 was all about the fallout from SOPA/PIPA, and the pivot to focusing on new battles. The SOPA supporters who own major media networks were somehow complaining they couldn't get their…
Source: Techdirt.com In the last few months, we've seen multiple internet companies finally able to reveal National Security Letters (NSLs) they had received from the Justice Department, demanding information from the companies, while simultaneously saddling those companies with gag…
Source: Techdirt.com When it comes to trademark disputes involving alcohol companies, we should all agree by now that things tend to get really, really silly. Too often a reversion to protectionism causes company lawyers to stretch the plain meaning…
Source: Techdirt.com Copyright trolls operate on a precarious edge.They have to find enough people willing to fall for their threat settlement letters to be profitable, while at the same time not causing enough of a stir to be noticed…
Source: Techdirt.com Last year, we wrote about a bizarre situation in Germany, in which the incredibly thin-skinned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had discovered a little-used, mostly forgotten German law, saying that it was illegal to insult a foreign…