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24 July 2014
Won't Somebody Think Of The Cows? New Zealand On The Brink Of Sacrificing Its Digital Future In TPP Negotiations
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Even before Wikileaks released the full text of TPP's IP chapter, New Zealand's Creative Freedom Foundation had already been gi...
TPP IP Chapter Leaked, Confirming It's Worse Than ACTA
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We've been waiting a long time for a major leak of the secretive TPP agreement, and thanks to Wikileaks, we now finally have it (pdf...
German Director Proposes 'One-Stop Shop' For Free, Instant, But Non-Exclusive Licenses To Offer Films Online
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It's always heartening to come across new ideas for ways to make creations more widely available to the public while allowing artist...
Russia's Leading Social Network VKontakte Cleared Of Copyright Infringement
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VKontakte is not only the largest social networking site in Russia, but is also one of the biggest unauthorized repositories of copyright...
India Wants Students And Researchers To Have The Right To Photocopy Books
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Techdirt has run several stories about the difficulties students in emerging economies have when it comes to buying expensive study ma...
Stand Back, I'm About to Do Some Posting....
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Apologies for the silence, I've been a bit busy, what with TTIP, ISDS, UK open standards, data retention, EU copyright review and much ...
24 November 2013
The Difference Between Plagiarism And Copyright Infringement
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Plagiarism is a complex and emotive issue, as previous Techdirt posts on the subject have shown . Perhaps because of that complexity, ...
Misleading Figures Used To Puff Up Importance Of Intellectual Monopolies In Europe
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We've noted before attempts to inflate the importance of copyright, patents and trademarks by including a bunch of other sectors that...
23 November 2013
The Start of the Counter-Attack Against Hargreaves?
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As I noted a couple of years ago, one of the most important legacies of the Hargreaves review of copyright in the digital age was its in...
UK Gov's Latest Move on Copyright: Exactly Wrong
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Remember the Digital Economy Act? Surely one of the worst pieces of UK legislation passed - or rather, rammed through - in recent years,...
Russia's Latest Idea: An Internet Whitelist For Copyright Materials
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Now that Sarkozy has been thrown out of office, France is no longer producing the steady stream of bad proposals for the Internet that it...
Right2Remix: A Campaign For European Copyright Reform
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Back in February we reported on a welcome move by the Dutch government to modify its copyright law so that creative remixes are permitte...
27 October 2013
German Supreme Court Confirms RapidShare Must Police The Internet And Restrict Anonymous Use
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A post on TorrentFreak updates us on the continuing saga of the file-hosting site RapidShare . The Supreme Court in Germany has apparent...
Massive Overblocking Hits Hundreds Of UK Sites
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Two years ago, Techdirt reported on a very troubling ruling in the UK courts that BT had to block access to the Usenet service provider...
The Getty Gets It: 'Open Content, An Idea Whose Time Has Come'
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Techdirt has published a number of posts that explore the issue of whether art organizations can stop people sharing images of works in ...
Latest 'Think Of The Children' Scaremongering: Pirated Films Might 'Disturb' Them
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Just last week we heard how Russia has extended its "think of the children" law to include copyright infringement. That was ...
Copyright Lawyers vs Patent Lawyers Smackdown: And The Winner Is...
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You may remember a rather wonderful court case from 2012 that pitted copyright lawyers against patent lawyers over the issue of whether ...
Australian Copyright Industry Says Proposal To Bring In Fair Use Is 'Solution For Problem That Doesn't Exist'
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A couple of months back, Techdirt wrote about Australia's proposals to shift from the current fair dealing approach to fair use as p...
UK's Ofcom Recognizes That Copyright Can Be A Threat To User Generated Content
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One of the central problems of laws that deal with copyright is that they are essentially products of a time when the distinction betwee...
As Russia Expands Its 'Think Of The Children' Laws To Copyright, Agency In Charge Investigated For Infringement
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Last week we wrote about how the Russian equivalent of SOPA had been amended in order to ban swearing online. Although that was worth ...
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