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Software patents have figured quite frequently on this blog, usually in terms of their deep problems, especially for free software. Alth...

Here's a hugely important story that brings together three major threads. First, the continuing wrangling over the form that Interne...

It was expected that the Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, would raise the issue of NSA spying when she addressed the opening sessio...

A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt noted that the Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, was angry that the NSA had been reading her private ...

As more and more information about the NSA's global surveillance capabilities emerges through leaks of material obtained by Edward ...

Techdirt has been following the story of Brazil's innovative Marco Civil project, a civil-rights based framework for the Internet, fo...

As you may have read , by an amazing coincidence, most of the UK's leading supermarkets have simultaneously announced that they will no...

Techdirt has been following the rapid rise and current problems of the various Pirate Parties in Europe for some time. Both their su...

A couple of weeks ago, we worried that Brazil's innovative "Marco Civil", a civil-rights based framework for the Internet, ...

Just over a year ago Techdirt wrote about Brazil's Marco Civil -- essentially a civil-rights based framework for the Internet. At t...

As Techdirt observed back in 2007, Brazilian artists were some of the first to recognize that piracy can be a positive force that helps ...

When the history of modern Brazil comes to be written, a special place will be reserved for the soybean, the powerful farmers that grow i...

In recent months, Techdirt has reported on an important development in the world of medicine, as both India and Brazil have allowed loca...

Like many people, I've been tracking the steady ascent of Google Chrome - and corresponding decline of Microsoft's Internet Expl...

One of the recurrent themes on Techdirt is the sense of entitlement the owners of various kinds of monopolies display, and their common b...

We've written about the hugely-successful Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho many times before, because he is a great example of an artis...

As this timeline indicates, Brazil's attempts to draw up a copyright reform bill have been dragging on for five years now. That in ...

As a search through the Techdirt archives shows, Phorm's behavioral advertising service based on watching your Web activity was bese...

Last week Techdirt wrote about a draft of a civil rights-based framework for the Internet that is being considered by lawmakers in Brazil...

One of the striking features of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is that it is mainly being signed by Western/“developed” countries...