Wikileaks Attempts To Bully Wikileaks Documentary With C&D Notices
The history of Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange is a tortured one, to be sure. Once the darling of the left for exposing important misdeeds by the American government, the site then became a...
View ArticleCreator Of Arguably The World's Worst Film Loses Injunction Against...
Actor/director Tommy Wiseau has, for some reason, been trying since June of this year to block the release of an unflattering documentary about his infamous 14-year-old film, The Room. Why Wiseau...
View ArticleLawsuit Brought By Cosby Show Production Company Against Documentary Is The...
Looking through the history of our posts on the topics of fair use and fair dealing, you find plenty of examples for why these exceptions to copyright law are so important. These exceptions are, at...
View ArticleCalifornia Court Dismisses Copyright Suit Against BBC Over Cosby Documentary...
Late last year, we covered a very odd lawsuit brought against the BBC by the production team for The Cosby Show centering around a BBC documentary covering Bill Cosby’s fall from grace in America....
View ArticleGhosh Yoga College Claims Copyright Infringement Over Netflix Documentary On...
While the volume isn’t enormous, I would still say that there are entirely too many Techdirt posts on the topic of yoga. Most of those center around yoga instructors somehow thinking that a specific...
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The Social Dilemma Manipulates You With Misinformation As It Tries To Warn...
There’s been a lot of buzz lately about the Netflix Documentary The Social Dilemma, which we’ve been told reveals to us “the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the...
View ArticleTexas Grand Jury Indicts Netflix For 'Lewd Exhibition' Of Children In Its...
It seems impossible that 2020 could get any stupider. But here we are, watching in bemusement as a showboating prosecutor talks a grand jury in a tiny Texas county into indicting an online streaming...
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Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Pulls Down Documentary About India PM Modi
Who is the Barbra Streisand of Bollywood? There’s a new documentary, produced by the BBC about India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Specifically, the documentary is focused on Modi’s relationship...
View ArticleBrewDog Wants To Keep Streisanding A Critical Documentary Into The Public View
Full disclosure as a matter of throat-clearing: I generally like BrewDog, a brewery based in the UK. Between really enjoying their beer in the past and the fact that the company underwent a concerted...
View ArticleFox Station Copyright Strikes YouTuber’s Documentary Over Use Of 1 Minute Clip
I’m going to kick this post off by stipulating to a couple of facts. First, the primary subject of this post is YouTuber Andrew Callaghan. Callaghan has both something of a checkered past as a...
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