A recent ruling against the Internet Archive for copyright infringement threatens a treasured and critical public institution: our libraries.

In this week's "It's Debatable" segment, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate whether Senate Bills requiring posting the Ten Commandments in public-school classrooms and permitting time for Bible reading and prayer violate the First Amendment.

For over a decade, Kristin Loberg has quietly co-authored a long list of bestselling books for medical superstars like David Agus and Sanjay Gupta. Now she’s embroiled in a growing plagiarism scandal that has her celebrity clients worried sick

Any images that are produced by giving a text prompt to current generative AI models, such as Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, cannot be copyrighted in the US. That's according to the US Copyright Office (USCO), which has equated such prompts to a buyer giving directions to a commissioned artist. "They identify what the prompter wishes to have depicted, but the machine determines how those instructions are implemented in its output," the USCO wrote in new guidance it published to the Federal Register.

Mods tell SCOTUS that Reddit's special formula depends on Section 230 immunity.

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A defence lawyer says police's private American-provided evidence storing system is derailing criminal trials and letting in the wrong people.

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By some estimations, Australia hosts around a third of the world’s self-declared mini-kingdoms. There are three good reasons for that

New tool shows where and when people work and live, with whom they associate and what places they visit.

On Friday, we wrote about hundreds of authors signing a letter calling out the big publishers’ attacks on libraries (in many, many different ways). The publishers pretend to represent the bes…

People who don't wear condoms during sex after being told to by their sexual partners can be convicted of sexual assault, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled today. In its unanimous decision, the top court ruled that "stealthing" — the act of pretending to use a condom, or removing one prior to sex without the partner's consent — can violate the legal grounds for consensual sex.

The FTC is slowly cracking down on right-to-repair deniers.

Johnny Depp has finally won his defamation case against Amber Heard. The jury decided that he proved Amber Heard intentionally defamed him with malice on every count and awarded him $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.

Now people who had incompetent lawyers aren’t entitled to present evidence of their innocence in federal court.

One of the central “justifications” for copyright is that it is indispensable if creativity is to be viable. Without it, we are assured, artists would starve. This ignores the fact that artists cre…

The US, UK and Australia have all announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The reason given for the move is because of human rights abuses in China, particularly in the turkic-speaking region of Xinjiang. Techdirt has been...

Review of 40 years of data shows many fatal police encounters are misclassified, most often when the victim is Black or Hispanic

Thanks to its never-ending collection of location data, Google has become a prime target for law enforcement investigators. Using so-called "reverse warrants," investigators ask Google to turn over information for all devices in a geofenced...

A CSB safety video on the October 26, 2019, hydrogen sulfide release at the Aghorn Operating waterflood station in Odessa, Texas. The release fatally injured an Aghorn employee who was working at the facility that evening, as well as his spouse who attempted to locate him at the facility after he did not return home.