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Rebecca Tushnet
Personal blog · tushnet.blogspot.compoliticsbusiness
Rebecca Tushnet's personal blog at tushnet.blogspot.com covers politics and business. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Rebecca Tushnet's blog as a source on US copyright and trademark law, such as whether anti-SLAPP statutes apply to federal copyright claims. Comments cite it as background, without judging it.
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What Hacker News says?
Wow, I think this new decision cleans up a number of loose ends left by the district judge. It's not especially clear in the Guardian article, but this is the Circuit Court (one layer below the Supreme Court) decision of the appeal by the Conan Doyle Estate of a District Court decision made at the end of last year. The District Court decision by Ruben Castillo ( http://freesherlock.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/klinge…
Comment linking /2014/01/guest-post-betsy-rosenblatt-on-case-of.html
on “Sherlock lives in public domain, US court rules”Submitted Celebration on Rimini Street as it achieves significant (C)/Lanham Act victories as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAnti-SLAPP statutes are products of state law and do not apply to federal claims for copyright infringement. (See a sample discussion of the issue in this blog post: http://tushnet.blogspot.com/2008/08/copyright-and-california... ). So these won't help. The key to what happened here is that the defendant was able to elicit the help of EFF and the Fenwick firm, undoubtedly pro bono, and this gave them first-class leg…
Comment linking /2008/08/copyright-and-californias-anti-slapp.html
on “Copyright troll lawsuit blows up in face of Righthaven”Submitted False ads and bankruptcy: Charter sanctioned $18M for anti-Windstream ads as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIn some cases it may be illegal in the U.S. also. The clearest case would be if a direct competitor hires someone to post fake negative reviews intending to damage a competing business (and fails to hide the trail). In that case the "target" would have a good case that their competitor is engaged in some kind of tortious interference with their business. edit: There's at least one case currently in the courts on a s…
Comment linking /2015/02/allegations-of-fake-independent-reviews.html
on “Amazon sues to block fake reviews on its site”