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06 January 2013
ACTA in 2012: From Desperation to Inspiration
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The European Commission has announced that it is withdrawing its referral of ACTA to the European Court of Justice. If you had forgotte...
08 December 2012
European Commission Meeting on Copyright
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One of the more extraordinary transformations in the last couple of decades has been copyright's evolution from a rather dry and dust...
Supplying The Missing Ingredient In Evidence-Based Policymaking: Evidence
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It seems extraordinary that in the area of copyright it is only recently that people have started to consider the evidence before formul...
Horizon 2020: Defending Open Access and Open Data
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At the end of last year, I wrote about the important Horizon 2020 initiative. Here's how it describes itself : On Open Enterprise blo...
Copyright Hardliners Adapt 'Copyright Reform' Language; They Just Mean In The Other Direction
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Neelie Kroes has emerged as perhaps the most Net-savvy politician in the European Commission, with her repeated calls for a new approach ...
11 November 2012
Give Your Views on Europe's Digital Future
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As you may have gathered, I'm a big fan of consultations: if they are asking us what we think, we really ought not pass up the chance...
Is The EU's New Directive On Clinical Trials Moving In The Wrong Direction?
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It's a cliché that we live in a world increasingly awash with digital data. Even though it all comes down to 1s and 0s, not all data...
Does CETA Spell ACTA?
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Last month I wrote about the "clean and open Internet" consultation being carried out by the European Commission, and pointed...
Why This EU Meeting on FRAND in Open Source?
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Long-suffering readers may recall that the issue of FRAND licensing in the context of open standards cropped up quite a lot this year. W...
13 October 2012
Last Chance: Consultation on Net Neutrality in EU
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Back in July, I wrote about a consultation on net neutrality from the EU, entitled On-line public consultation on "specific aspect...
European Parliament Committee Calls For Creation Without Copyright To Become EU Policy
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The European Union's governmental machine is a complicated beast, with its intertwining of supra-national, national and party-politic...
13 September 2012
The New Kremlinology: Decoding The Signals Of Future EU Copyright Enforcement Moves
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The negotiations behind closed doors of major treaties like ACTA and TPP, and the refusal of participants to release official drafts or to...
Chile Leads The Way On Intermediary Liability Protections
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As Techdirt reported , the European Commission is conducting a major consultation on the "procedures for notifying and acting on ill...
23 July 2012
EU To Open Up Secret Clinical Trial Data; TPP Looking Even More Retrogressive
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Openness is really beginning to sweep through the European Union at all levels. Yesterday we wrote about the European Commission's a...
15 July 2012
European Parliament Declares Its Independence From The European Commission With A Massive Rejection Of ACTA. Now What?
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In a plenary vote today, the European Parliament has rejected ACTA by 478 votes to 39 , with 165 abstentions. That followed a failed attem...
ACTA Supporters In Europe Fighting To The Bitter End
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As Techdirt has reported over the last few months, the passage of ACTA through the European Union's approval process has been little s...
30 June 2012
EU Commissioner Reveals He Will Simply Ignore Any Rejection Of ACTA By European Parliament Next Week
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The day before the EU's International Trade committee (INTA) recommended that the European Parliament should reject ACTA, the EU comm...
13 March 2012
European Commission Blames Social Networks For ACTA Failure; Worried About Its Imminent Directive On Copyright Enforcement
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Now that the EU's ratification of ACTA has departed from the original script of everyone just waving it through, the European Commissi...
07 March 2012
ACTA Update X
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As far as we can tell, ACTA has been put on hold for months, maybe even a year, while the European Court of Justice (ECJ) considers its c...
22 February 2012
European Commission Suggests ACTA's Opponents Don't Have 'Democratic Intentions'
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Last week, we had a story about the IFPI (the international equivalent of the RIAA) saying that the ACTA protests were trying to "s...
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