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06 January 2013
After ACTA: Trans-Atlantic Partnership Agreement
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It's not often that trade agreements make it to the front page of the newspapers, but that's what happened on New Year's Day:...
Treaty Shopping: How Companies Tilt The Legal Playing Field For Investor-State Arbitration
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Alongside globe-spanning treaties like ACTA and TPP, there are more subtle efforts to limit the power of national governments, through th...
What ACTA Taught Us in 2012
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Last week I wrote a potted history of the defeat of ACTA in the last year. I mentioned that in the original talk, whose slides I embed...
ACTA in 2012: From Desperation to Inspiration
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The European Commission has announced that it is withdrawing its referral of ACTA to the European Court of Justice. If you had forgotte...
08 December 2012
Another Problem with Copyright; How to Fix It
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Anyone who has been reading this blog for a while will be well aware of some of the key problems with copyright in the Internet age. For...
As Feared, Brazil's 'Anti-ACTA' Marco Civil Killed Off By Lobbyists
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A couple of weeks ago, we worried that Brazil's innovative "Marco Civil", a civil-rights based framework for the Internet, ...
Wearing V For Vendetta Guy Fawkes Masks Declared Illegal In Dubai
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The evolution of the V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes mask from a clever element in a comic book and film to a meme and a global symbol of onl...
Why Was It Poland That Led The European Revolt Against ACTA?
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In retrospect, it is now clear that the pivotal moment in the campaign against ACTA was last January, when thousands of people took to t...
Will Brazil's 'Anti-ACTA' Marco Civil Be Subverted By Copyright Lobbyists At The Last Moment?
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Just over a year ago Techdirt wrote about Brazil's Marco Civil -- essentially a civil-rights based framework for the Internet. At t...
11 November 2012
Does CETA Spell ACTA?
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Last month I wrote about the "clean and open Internet" consultation being carried out by the European Commission, and pointed...
13 October 2012
Before and After ACTA - the Video
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In the last year I've written what some might have felt were rather too many thousand words about ACTA. But I'd argue that it wa...
29 September 2012
EU Open Voluntarism Consultation: Your Views
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If you cast your mind back to the heady days of summer, when we were all worried about what ACTA might do, one of the problems was with Art...
13 September 2012
The New Kremlinology: Decoding The Signals Of Future EU Copyright Enforcement Moves
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The negotiations behind closed doors of major treaties like ACTA and TPP, and the refusal of participants to release official drafts or to...
A Question of (Open) Standards
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As long-standing readers will know, alongside ACTA, the other main theme of this blog over the last year or so has been the battle for the ...
European Commission Looks To Backdoor In ACTA By Pushing For Same Results Through 'Voluntarism'
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This year saw two huge victories for digital activism: against SOPA in the US, and against ACTA in the EU. The big question is now: what ...
03 September 2012
EU Wants to Sneak in a Mini-ACTA by the Backdoor
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Even after ACTA was rejected by the European Parliament on 4 July this year, the European Commission was still refusing to admit that th...
10 August 2012
Unleashing the Potential of Open Data
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It seems a long while ago now, but June was a pretty hectic month in this neck of the woods, since it saw the final push to get ACTA reject...
15 July 2012
What Happens If File Sharing Can Also Be Prosecuted As Trademark Infringement?
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In the arguments over ACTA, one criticism seemed widely accepted: that it tries to bundle together two quite different challenges -- tack...
ACTA's Back: European Commission Trying To Sneak In Worst Parts Using Canada-EU Trade Agreement As A Trojan Horse
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Even in the face of a resounding rejection of ACTA by the European Parliament last week, the European Commission seems determined to keep...
So We Won on ACTA Yesterday: Now What?
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Well, we did it: ACTA was resoundingly defeated in the European Parliament yesterday by 478 votes to 39, with 165 abstentions. That'...
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