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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...

TTIP is dying : According to the research, "In the United States [today], opinion is split, with 15 percent in favour [of TTIP] and...

The EU Ombudsman is running a consultation on how to improve the transparency of the TTIP negotiations.  This shouldn't be hard, ...

When the European Commission was laying the foundations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership - TTIP, also known as T...

Even the European Commission admits that TAFTA /TTIP is not, primarily, a trade agreeement, because the trade barriers between the EU an...

Readers with long memories may recall in the dim and distant past that at one time "Get the Facts" was a favourite war-cry of Mic...

Techdirt has been reporting for some time on the growing number of moves towards making academic work freely available to the public -- f...

Earlier this month I wrote a couple of posts about a letter I sent off to the European Commission concerning my appalling experience wit...

Seeds have much in common with code.  Indeed, I wrote an entire book about how genomics parallels the world of software.  In particular, t...

Update:  Maël Brunet has  pointed out  that the press release I linked to below is from 2011; what was actually  announced yesterday  was...

Last week I  wrote  a letter to the European Commission about the extraordinary failure  of the  IPRED  consultation process. I certainly...

Following my  post  yesterday about the extraordinary failure of the  IPRED  consultation process, I enclose below my letter sent to the ...

Last week I made a couple of  urgent pleas  to readers to complete the major EU  IPRED  consultation, which was being conducted on the We...

Yesterday I mentioned the important consultation on IPRED, how it was closing soon, and what a good idea it would be if you applied to ...

Although the European Union finally approved the continent-wide Unitary Patent in December 2012, after decades of discussions, the story...

In an implicit acknowledgement that the Europe-wide protests against ACTA indicated that there was a problem with copyright in the digital...

As Techdirt has reported over the last ten days, the death of Aaron Swartz has provoked an outpouring of grief from friends and colleague...

As happened for last year, 2013 will doubtless see plenty of battles in the domains of open standards, copyright and software patents, bu...

If ACTA was the biggest global story of 2012, more locally there's no doubt that the UK government's consultation on open standa...

Last week I wrote a potted history of the defeat of ACTA in the last year. I mentioned that in the original talk, whose slides I embed...