Techdirt is an American Internet blog that reports on technology's legal challenges and related business and economic policy issues, in context of the...
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Shiva Ayyadurai (section Techdirt)
Media and Techdirt for defamation for disputing his account of inventing email; both lawsuits were settled out of court. Ayyadurai and Techdirt agreed to...
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entrepreneur. He is the CEO and founder of Techdirt, a weblog. He coined the term "Streisand effect" on the Techdirt blog in January 2005 and was interviewed...
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Violations Shows That COPPA And Section 230 Are On A Collision Course". Techdirt. Archived from the original on September 6, 2019. Retrieved September 7...
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The Public Domain; Demands Warner Pay Back Millions of License Fees". Techdirt. Archived from the original on October 14, 2013. Retrieved October 14,...
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visiting the site over the following month. Two years later, Mike Masnick of Techdirt named the effect after the Streisand incident when writing about Marco...
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In Great Detail, How Even An Updated SOPA Hurts The Web & Wikipedia". Techdirt. Archived from the original on January 8, 2012. Retrieved January 15, 2012...
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"Rovi sues Amazon for not licensing its Electronic TV Guide patent". Techdirt. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013. Retrieved November 5,...
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Gives A Pretty Good Explanation For Why It Exists In The First Place". Techdirt. Retrieved August 4, 2023. "Twitter Agrees to Pay $809.5 Million Settlement...
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"That Time When People Thought Playing Chess Would Make You Violent". TechDirt. Archived from the original on 24 March 2017. "National Scholastic Chess...
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one of his teachers in primary school but did not keep the paperwork. Techdirt and The Irish Times said that O'Brien's 197 IQ score from childhood does...
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David J. Slater. The disputes involved Wikimedia Commons and the blog Techdirt, which have hosted the images following their publication in newspapers...
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the 'Streisand Effect.' Robert Siegel talks with Mike Masnick, CEO of Techdirt Inc., who coined the term. "Maccabi rugby seal Streisand cup versus Convicts"...
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Mike (7 July 2008). "Microsoft Patents Adding 'www.' And '.com' To Text". Techdirt. Archived from the original on 27 June 2009. Retrieved 27 May 2009. Hamilton...
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"Laying Out All The Evidence: Shiva Ayyadurai Did Not Invent Email". Techdirt. Archived from the original on January 27, 2022. Retrieved September 5...
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Important Law On The Internet Was Signed, Almost By Accident". www.techdirt.com. Techdirt. Retrieved February 21, 2016. Goldman, Eric (July 30, 2016). "Overzealous...
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subsequently came to light that she had copied text directly from the Techdirt website of an interview with 50 Cent, without attribution. This led to...
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Enforcement Agencies Rioted So Hard They Ended Up Shooting Each Other". Techdirt. Retrieved June 23, 2025. Shapiro, Emily (June 14, 2025). "Protests live...
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Competitor to Elsevier's SSRN Launches, SSRN Accused Of Copyright Crackdown". Techdirt. Retrieved 6 August 2016. Straumsheim, Carl (19 July 2016). "'There Isn't...
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After Hollywood Complained It Was Adopting American Fair Use Principles". Techdirt. Archived from the original on October 8, 2024. Retrieved November 4, 2019...
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Survey Bay; Largest Database of Information on Users of the Pirate Bay". Techdirt. 29 August 2013. Archived from the original on 4 April 2014. Retrieved...
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Retrieved February 10, 2021. "'Hollywood Accounting' Losing In The Courts". Techdirt. July 8, 2010. Retrieved July 19, 2013. "The Most Successful Movie Franchises...
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Vuitton Sues Darfur Fundraiser; Seems Unclear on the Concept of Trademark". Techdirt. Archived from the original on 11 May 2011. Retrieved 12 May 2011. Beck...
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"Publisher Of 'Carcassonne' Sends C&D Notices Over Use Of The Word 'Meeple'". Techdirt. Retrieved 2024-06-19. Zambrano, J. R. (2024-06-17). "Wake Up Meeple, You're...
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2014. "UFC Makes The Awful Decision To Sue Some Of Its Biggest Fans". Techdirt. March 22, 2012. Simon, Zane (October 12, 2014). "Standard & Poors downgrades...
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(December 11, 2019). "Twitter Makes A Bet On Protocols Over Platforms". Techdirt. Archived from the original on May 2, 2023. Retrieved May 2, 2023. Matney...
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Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property, What Is It?". techdirt.com. Techdirt. Retrieved 17 August 2014. Stallman, Richard M. "Did You Say "Intellectual...
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October 30, 2023. "How ASCAP And BMI Are Harming Up-And-Coming Singers". Techdirt.com. January 12, 2009. Retrieved May 9, 2014. "ASCAP Since AFJ2 – A Series...
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(2022-02-07). "German Court Fines Site Owner For Sharing User Data With Google To Access Web Fonts". Techdirt. Retrieved 2022-02-28. Official website...
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"Sherlock Holmes And The Case Of The Never Ending Copyright Dispute". Techdirt. Archived from the original on 27 December 2019. Retrieved 26 December...
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