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Paul Alan Levy has gone digging and possibly found one of the entities tied to the bogus defamation suits being used to delist negative...
AP The Beatles, from left, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison, are shown in this November 1963 photo. (AP Photo) In a new novel, an aspiring poet and American exchange student finds unexpected inspiration through the influence of a ragtag group of musicians from Liverpool - the pre-fame Beatles. Dan Greenberger is a television writer and producer who has made part of the "origin story" of The Beatles the basis of his debut novel "The Boys Next Door" (Appian Way Press). It's historical fiction, with the first-person narrative told through the letters and diary entrie...
good-rulings dept Mon, Apr 18th 2011 12:53pm — Mike MasnickPaul Alan Levy points us to a good ruling in the Southern District of NY district court concerning yet another mass infringement lawsuit filing (pdf and also embedded below), this time by Digiprotect. The ruling touches on a few different issues, and actually may be quite useful, in light of some other recent rulings. Also, if you recognize the name Digiprotect, that may be because it was heavily involved in many of these kinds of mass infringement lawsuits in Europe, helping, in some ways, to pioneer the strategy of suing a ton of ...
Background First of all, corporations enjoy First Amendment protections, among other constitutional protections. Although some of my friends decry that proposition, given the Supreme Court's current composition, that is not going to change during my lifetime. And the First Amendment protects the right to refuse to associate with speech one does not like. There is only so much that legislation could do to prevent companies like Twitter from controlling the speech that they allow. Second, withdrawing or adapting the section 230 liability shield is one way to impose limits on platform's adoption...
San Francisco and Prague: A Double Portrait Remembering historic times of magic — in two magical cities. By Barry Wood, January 3, 2021 Credit: Jeff Gunn www.flickr.com Takeaways Both San Francisco in the 1960s and Prague in the 1990s were epicenters of change -- magnets for idealistic youth longing to be part of building something new. San Francisco and Prague are beautiful cities. In San Francisco, it’s the lucent blue of a vast bay, pastel homes climbing formidable hills — and a magnificent bridge spanning the chasm just where bay and ocean meet. In Prague, it’s the low gr...