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There's a fairly constant pattern in the world of copyright enforcement. The media companies claim that piracy is "destroying...

Even though the European Commission has referred ACTA to the European Court of Justice, the European Parliament continues to examine the...

Well, this one's bizarre. Back in March 2010 we wrote about the UK Usenet aggregator Newzbin being found liable for the copyright i...

So the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of copyright maximalist legislation, SOPA and PIPA, have been halted in their passage through the US legi...

One of the many dangerous aspects of SOPA/PIPA is that its backers seem to have given no thought to what the unintended consequences might...

Just under a month ago, the "Chaos Computer Club" (CCC), which styles itself as "the largest European hacker club", had ...

Last week we learned the UK government has precisely no evidence to support its plans for stricter copyright enforcement, which include ...

One of the most noticeable trends in copyright law around the world is the way countries tend to adopt similar approaches. So after the ...

The "copyright levy" - typically a charge levied on blank recording media such as audio tapes, CDs and DVDs - is a total anachroni...

FAST - "Federation Against Software Theft" - is manifestly one of the more risible copyright organisations, since it doesn't e...

Since Apple has replaced Microsoft as the leading patent-wielding cheerleader for closed-source computing, it will come as no surprise that ...

Now that the dust has settled a little on the Hargreaves report, I thought it might be worth revisiting it, but looking at it from a slightl...

A couple of days ago I wrote that ACTA was doomed because its attempts to enforce copyright through even more punitive measures will simply...

There is a great new paper out with the title "ACTA as a New Kind of International IP Law-Making": The ACTA negotiations are impo...

Well, it was bound to come one day, but it's still shocking : A group of senators want to hand the U.S. Department of Justice the power ...

This was a pleasant surprise, a *summary* judgment against Viacom in favour of Google: Today, the court granted our motion for summary judgm...

One of the many frustrating aspects of the recent debate on the Digital Economy Bill was the constant repetition of two major inaccuracies. ...

As long-suffering readers will know, I've been banging on about the dangers to free software – and much else – of the Anti-Counterfeitin...

Now this is rum. A little while back, there was a petition on the 10 Downing site: “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to abando...

Learning nothing from the decade-long series of missteps by the music industry, publishers want to repeat that history in all its stupidity...