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As most people reading this will know by now, the deeply-flawed EU Copyright Directive faces one final vote in the European Parliament soon...

A few months ago, I wrote about the library management program Koha, and how the irruption of money into the previously tranquil world o...

Although DMCA takedown notices figure quite frequently here on Techdirt -- especially abusive ones that use the system to remove material...

OpenCourseWare - putting texts and videos of educational lectures online for anyone to download, use and often build on - is a great idea.  ...

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

In a decision that shows how ridiculously unclear the situation around copying DVDs is: A federal judge ruled here late Tuesday that it was...

Over on the Open Enterprise blog, I have been extolling the virtues of James Boyle's new book, The Public Domain . I still urge you to...

...the Beijing Olympics spirit , that is : the IOC sent a take-down notice to YouTube for a video posted by Students for a Free Tibet. The v...

Mr TechCrunch can be slightly obnoxious at times, but on this one I can only applaud him: now the A.P. has gone too far. They’ve quoted twe...

Michael Geist has been warning about this for a while, and now the beast is out : Today the Government of Canada introduced long-overdue and...

Another reason to hate Flash: Now Adobe, which controls Flash and Flash Video, is trying to change that with the introduction of DRM restri...

The music industry has finally found an online music model it can live with: Imeem, a social networking site that was in the recording indu...

Although I am a frequent critic of the more outrageous excesses of copyright, I don't deny it has its place, in moderation. For example...

This was bound to happen : Eerily ergonomic, infinitely adjustable, incredibly expensive, the Aeron chair is a fetish item in the computer i...

Absolutely : It's not often that Google kills off one of its services, especially one which was announced with much fanfare at a big mai...

I'd seen this decision , but missed its broader significance: A Finnish Court has unanimously ruled that the Content Scrambling System (...

If you thought the DMCA was bad, take a look at this : Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pressing the U.S. Congress to enact a sweeping i...

This is almost Jesuitical in its contorted logic : Media Rights Technologies and BlueBeat.com have issued cease and desist letters to both c...

No, it's not that number , it's my number : First, we generate a fresh pseudorandom integer, just for you. Then we use your intege...

There is an incredible - nay, pivotal - event unfolding on Digg. And it all revolves around a number. As the excellent Brownian Emotion e...