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Okay, let's get this out of the way first: Republican politicians send a shit-ton of spam. And, no, it's not just standard political messaging. It's spam. And it's often full of absolute scams. Erick Erickson, an extremely rightwing/GOP-supporting commentator, recently wrote a whole post calling out his team for spamming everyone and then blaming others…
Posts about political emails written by Mike Masnick and Techdirt
Google Buys Timely Alarm Clock Developer Bitspin, Premium IAP Content Is Now Free In an odd bit of M&A news, the developers at Bitspin announced that the small company will be joining forces with Google. Whether Google has purchased the company outright or merely hired its Zurich-based development team isn't clear, but in either case, the big G will be benefitting from their impressive user interface experience soon. Google has not commented on the situation, and there is no dollar amount posted on the Bitspin website. If you're unfamiliar with Bitspin, it's the development team behind the s...
Why Andy Warhol’s ‘Prince Series,’ the Subject of a Long-Term Copyright Dispute, Should Be Considered Fair Use After All Two legal experts explain why a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Google should inform the way courts think about art. April 27, 2021 The original Lynn Goldsmith photograph and Andy Warhol's Prince portrait of the musician, as reproduced in court documents. Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit declared that a notable group of Andy Warhol paintings—his famed “Prince Series”—infringed the copyright of the photographer whose im...