This Week In Techdirt History: August 9th – 15th

This Week in 2016

  • Primatologist Tells Court That Macaque Monkeys Are, Like, Super Smart, So They Should Totally Get Copyrights
  • Will DNC Email Hacking Make Legislators More Friendly To Encryption?
  • Donald Trump On Intellectual Property: China Is Bad
  • Botnet Bill Could Give FBI Permission To Take Warrantless Peeks At The Contents Of People’s Computers
  • Judge On Whether Twitter Is Legally Liable For ISIS Attacks: Hahahahahaha, Nope.
  • Why Does The Copyright Office Keep Acting Like A Lobbying Arm For Hollywood?

This Week in 2011

  • Police, Yet Again, Arrest Someone For Filming Them, Saying It’s Obstruction Of Justice
  • Court Says Sending Too Many Emails To Someone Is Computer Hacking
  • British MP Calls On RIM To Shut Down Messenger Services To Stop Riots; Because Pissing Off Rioters Calms Them Down?
  • Fark Gets Patent Troll To Settle For Nothing… Did Reddit Pay Up?
  • What If Tim Berners-Lee Had Patented The Web?
  • DA Realizes That Gizmodo Didn’t Break The Law In Writing About Found iPhone 4 Prototype

This Week in 2006

  • How A Little Editing Inflated Some Web 2.0 Hype
  • Does A EULA Wipe Out Fair Use Provisions?
  • Turns Out Major League Baseball Doesn’t Own Stats, After All
  • Judge Says Blogs Are Guilty Of, Well, Just Guilty Dammit!
  • DRM Supporters Changing Their Story?
  • Is Wikipedia To Blame For Students’ Laziness?
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