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23 November 2013
European Privacy Lost - and How to Get it Back
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At the beginning of this year, I discussed a report written for the European Parliament, which warned that the US legal framework allow...
Net Neutrality under Threat in Europe - Unnecessarily
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As long-suffering readers of this column will know, I've been following for a while the winding road leading to the European Commiss...
TTIP Update II
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As I noted in my first TTIP Update about the current negotiations between the EU and US over a massive trade agreement that is far fro...
26 October 2013
EU Kills Net Neutrality, Threatens Online Openness
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I've been trying to fathom what exactly Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission with responsibility for the Digital A...
EU Copyright: The Right to Read and the Right to Mine
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A year ago the European Parliament rejected ACTA - a real milestone in the fight to bring some balance to copyright, since it was the fi...
EU Open Standards: We Want Actions, Not Words
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Open standards has been a recurring theme here on Open Enterprise. It's also been the occasion of one of the most disgraceful U-turn...
19 September 2013
Please Help Overturn EU Data Retention Directive
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The last couple of weeks have been full of the revelations about NSA spying on a massive scale. What has been slightly disconcerting is...
What's the Net Net on Neelie Kroes's EU Net Neutrality?
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It's been a while since I wrote about net neutrality, but of course it's never gone away as an important theme. Indeed, it was i...
EU Mandate For TAFTA Leaked: Includes Investor-State Dispute Resolution For Intellectual Monopolies
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One of the concerns about TAFTA/TTIP is that it would repeat the mistakes of ACTA and SOPA as far as intellectual monopolies were concer...
Innovators, Public Interest Groups & Open Access Supporters Pull Out Of Talks On EU Copyright In Protest
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Back in February we reported on a worrying attempt by the European Commission to reframe the discussion about modernizing copyright in...
18 September 2013
FRAND Is Broken: Time To Bin It [Updated]
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I've written many times about why FRAND licensing is not an option for open source projects, and should therefore be replaced by Roy...
EU Commission Sued For Refusing To Reveal Trade Agreement Documents They Shared With Lobbyists
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A recurrent theme here on Techdirt is the lack of transparency when international agreements and treaties are being drawn up. That'...
EU Consultations: A Modest Proposal
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Last week I reported on the reply I received from Jean Bergevin of the European Commission on the subject of the IPRED consultation, and...
Open Source (Seeds) Under Threat
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Seeds might seem far from the world of high tech and free software, but they have much in common. Seeds contain DNA, which is a (quaterna...
Now US And EU Want To Apply Upward Ratchet To TRIPS Itself
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Here on Techdirt we often talk about the copyright ratchet -- the fact that for three hundred years changes to copyright have always b...
New EU Regulation Threatens Rare Seed Varieties, Agricultural Independence And Food Supply Resilience In Europe
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Unless we are farmers, we tend to take seeds for granted. But civilisation is built on seeds: it was the rise of large-scale agricultu...
28 July 2013
TTIP's "Science-based" Assault on Democracy Begins
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Last month I predicted that one of the main tropes that would be used in the TAFTA/TTIP negotiations would by that of "science-based&...
21 July 2013
Why has Monsanto "Quit" Europe? The Answer is ISDS in TAFTA/TTIP
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The battle to bring GM food to Europe has been fiercely fought for years. Most assumed it would be continue to rage for many more. Which m...
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20 July 2013
EU Free Trade Agreements With India And Canada Grind To A Halt
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Techdirt has been covering the free trade agreement being negotiated between India and the EU for a while now -- that is, as well as any...
Cambodian Activists Explain Why The EU-India FTA Is A Matter Of Life And Death
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One of the many problems with the secretive nature of trade agreements is that it insulates negotiators from the real-world consequences...
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