FCC Fines More Companies For Blocking Convention Center WiFi, Says Hilton...
Over the last year, one of the FCC’s major crackdowns has been on companies that block customer WiFi at convention centers in order to drive visitors and exhibitors to the center’s own, absurdly-priced...
View ArticleEU Advocate General Declares That Hotels Don't Need To Pay Copyright License...
We’ve seen all manner of silly claims by copyright licensing groups as to what requires what kind of license in every kind of circumstance. These licensing groups have gone after children’s charities....
View ArticleWhy Is The Hotel Industry More Focused On Harming Airbnb Than Improving Their...
It’s no secret that the hotel industry hates competition from Airbnb. Hell, politicians have even admitted to crafting anti-Airbnb policies to keep hotels from being disrupted. But, now, the NY Times...
View ArticleArizona Motel 6 Branches Start Handing Out ICE To Unsuspecting Customers
Motel 6 sure seems to love handing over guest info to law enforcement. A couple of years ago, a Rhode Island branch decided to start faxing its guest list to local police every night — something the...
View ArticleNew York City Hotels Say Obnoxious $25 'Destination Fee''Improves The...
Taking a page from the telecom and banking sector playbooks, New York City hotels have decided to add a $25 “destination fee” just for the honor of being able to sleep somewhere near the audio visual...
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Cubs, Nationals Launch Another Trademark Opposition Over A 'W' Logo
Back in 2015, we wrote about a really dumb trademark dispute between a financial services firm and two Major League Baseball teams, the Washington Nationals and Chicago Cubs, over the letter “W.” This...
View ArticleFormer Hotel Exec Gets Elected To Congress, Decides First Order Of Business...
Ed Case represents Hawaii’s 1st district in Congress. He was just elected in 2018, though he actually was in Congress once before, when he represented Hawaii’s 2nd district from 2002 to 2007. He left...
View ArticleHotel Lobbyists Push Forward Their Plan To Kill The Internet Because They...
In the midst of this “techlash” atmosphere, it seems that basically every industry whose business models have been upended by competition brought about by the internet is now cynically using the anger...
View ArticleHotel Owner Files Libel Suit Against Reviewer For Calling Nazis Nazis, Gets...
Turns out the truth is no defense to accusations of libel… at least not in Austria. And not when someone’s reputation needs to be protected from [rereads article] substantially true statements. The...
View ArticleFrance Is About To Waste A Ton Of Money Trying To Build Its Own Airbnb
It’s no secret that the French government seems to hate big internet companies. It’s spent years attacking them from basically every angle — they allow too much piracy, they don’t protect privacy,...
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