A federal judge delivered a big blow to the self-proclaimed “inventor of email” on Wednesday, ruling that posts by the blog TechDirt calling him a “fake,” “phony,” and other names were not defamatory.

Shiva Ayyadurai, the tech entrepreneur and now candidate for U.S. Senate, faced a legal setback this week after a judge threw out a libel lawsuit he filed against the website TechDirt over his claims ...

Beloved tech law and policy blog Techdirt is in the midst of a dirty legal fight. Shiva Ayyadurai, a man who claims he invented email, served the site with a $15 million defamation lawsuit over ...

Techdirt founder Mike Masnick has followed the twists and turns of the digital music debate for more than a decade, offering some of the most prescient and lucid information and arguments on the topic ...

Regular readers of my posts here on the VC know that I'm a big fan of Mike Masnick's Techdirt website, which consistently has intelligent, in-depth reporting about the dismal state of our intellectual ...

I've long much liked the free-speech coverage of Techdirt and Mike Masnick, and I was delighted to hear that they have received more than $250,000 to cover free-speech issues. Here's Masnick's post on ...

"[T]he question of who invented e-mail is not subject to one, and only one, 'true' answer," a federal judge writes. By Ashley Cullins In a win for tech writers who scrutinize the history of email, a ...

TechDirt has prevailed in its First Amendment defense against Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email. Before getting into the detail, it's worth pausing to both thank and congratulate ...

Michael Masnick, founder of the Techdirt blog, has been offering prescriptions for the music industry for years, and now he's taking a taste of its own medicine with a freemium-style formula modeled ...

Michael Masnick, who founded the popular Techdirt blog, filed a motion (PDF) today asking for a defamation lawsuit against him to be thrown out. Masnick was sued last month by Shiva Ayyadurai, a ...

Techdirt is currently embroiled in a legal battle with Shiva Ayyadurai, a man who claims to have invented email. But regardless of the outcome, founder and CEO Mike Masnick said that the $15 million ...

Techdirt founder Mike Masnick often takes no prisoners when it comes to his writings about intellectual property, net neutrality, the law, and everything in between. But now Masnick finds himself the ...