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18 September 2013
The Importance of Being Attributed
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A few weeks ago, the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 received Royal Assent. Among its rag-bag of measures are some dealing wit...
Copyright Holders Will Define Details Of UK's Orphan Works Bill, But Not The Public
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The UK's new orphan works legislation allows works to be classed as orphans only after a "diligent search" has been conduct...
Once Again Top Downloaders Are Top Spenders, According To UK Gov't Study
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If there's one clear trend that has emerged in recent years, it's that those who download and share unauthorized copies of files...
Benefit Claimants Must Use Ancient Microsoft Software
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Remember the bad old days when the UK government forced people to use Microsoft software in order to interact with it online? Remember h...
20 July 2013
No, The UK Did Not Just Abolish Copyright, Despite What Photographers Seem To Think
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The photographers are freaking out again. After last year's excitement with Instagram's changes to its terms of service, now i...
UK Supreme Court Says Unauthorized Browsing Of Copyright Material Online Is OK, But Asks European Court Of Justice Just In Case
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The lawsuits brought against the media monitoring firm Meltwater in both the US and the UK have not turned out too well for the company ...
31 March 2013
UK Politician Hates the (Digital) Environment
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how the irony-immune IT department of the European Parliament was censoring emails complaining abou...
UK Politician Says EU Site Wants To 'Brainwash' Children With Propaganda About Democratic Principles
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The UK is famous for its tabloid newspapers and their particular brand of journalism. Here's a fine example from the Daily Express, ...
10 February 2013
UK Government Fails Its First Big Procurement Test
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As regular readers of Computerworld UK know, the UK government has repeatedly said that it wishes to move on from the past patterns of p...
UK Mobile Operator 3UK Filtering New Class Of 'Mature Content', Including Political Satire
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Smartphones have some big advantages: they offer considerable computing power in a highly-portable form, and are available at prices tha...
Church Site Blocked By Mobile Networks, Classified Under 'Alcohol'
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Against a background of the UK government teetering on the brink of imposing an opt-out Web filter "for the children", here'...
08 December 2012
The Pirate Bay's Perfectly Legal 'The Promo Bay' Blocked By UK ISPs
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Last week Techdirt wrote about the perverse attitude of the UK recording industry, which seems obsessed with "stamping out piracy&...
Supplying The Missing Ingredient In Evidence-Based Policymaking: Evidence
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It seems extraordinary that in the area of copyright it is only recently that people have started to consider the evidence before formul...
11 November 2012
UN Assault on the Open Internet and Privacy
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As you may recall , terrorism was one of the primary justifications for bringing in the disproportionate Draft Communications Data Bill: ...
14 October 2012
Stop the UK Badger Cull: Letter to My MP
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I had been vaguely aware that the proposed cull of badgers in the UK was controversial, but had not fully realised that the evidence agains...
13 October 2012
Snooper's Charter: 19,000 Emails Against, 0 In Favour
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Back in August, I urged people to respond to the consultation on the truly dreadful Draft Communications Bill, aka Snooper's Charte...
29 September 2012
UK Prosecutors Finally Acknowledge The Need For A Real Discussion About Free Speech Online
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As Tim Cushing rightly noted earlier this week, the UK's "Free Speech" laws are more about the many things you can't say...
How UK Police Attempted To Misuse Official Databases To Smear Disaster Victims
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A recent scandal in the UK concerned the country's worst sporting disaster, when 96 football/soccer fans were crushed to death at a s...
02 September 2012
Could Your Company Survive a Net Block?
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As part of the seemingly endless round of consultations (I'm not complaining - this is how it should be done), the UK government is a...
The Googlisation of Surveillance
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As promised, here is my submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee considering the UK government's Draft Communications Bill: O...
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