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15 July 2012
Defeating ACTA: Now or Never
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Well, never a dull moment in the world of ACTA. After I wrote yesterday's column summing up what I thought was the final state of pl...
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...
ACTA Update XX: The Final Act
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So, here we are: the final decisive week that is likely to determine the fate not just of ACTA, but also the course of digital copyright l...
30 June 2012
EU Parlamentarian Gallo: ACTA Dissent 'A Soft Form Of Terrorism'
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Marielle Gallo is probably best known for the Gallo Report, which Techdirt described back in 2010 as a "similarly draconian intellec...
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...
27 April 2012
EU Liberals To Vote Against ACTA; Conservatives Want To 'Fix' It
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We reported last week that the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament had decided to vote against the ratification of ACTA; n...
ACTA 'May Interfere With Fundamental Freedoms' -- EU Data Protection Supervisor
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The dramatic announcement that the EU's rapporteur on ACTA, David Martin, would be recommending that the European Parliament should re...
18 April 2012
ACTA Rapporteur's Recommendations: Reject Treaty, But Ask European Commission To Come Up With Replacement
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Last week, the EU Rapporteur on ACTA, David Martin, announced he would recommend that the European Parliament reject the treaty. He has n...
ACTA Closer To Death: Remaining EU Supporters Contemplate Rejecting It
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Last week we saw the Socialists and Democrats, the second-largest bloc in the European Parliament, turn against ACTA. Combined with the ...
As ACTA 1.0 Lies Dying, Are G8 Countries Already Working On ACTA 2.0?
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As we recently reported , ACTA has been dealt a serious blow by the EU Rapporteur's recommendation that the European Parliament shoul...
EU Rapporteur Deals Major Blow To ACTA: Recommends Rejection By European Parliament
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At the end of a morning of discussions about ACTA organized by the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament , the Rapporteur for...
ACTA Update XIII
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What an extraordinary ride ACTA is proving. When I first started this series of ACTA Updates back in February, I didn't hold out mu...
01 April 2012
ACTA Update XI
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Although I've not written about ACTA here for a few weeks, things are still bubbling away in Brussels. Here's a good summary of ...
18 March 2012
Strange: Vote Against Freeing Up Orphan Works Achieves 113% Turnout In EU Committee
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One of the unresolved problems of copyright is how to deal with huge numbers of orphan works -- creations still in copyright, but whose o...
10 October 2011
EU Greens Come On Board Pirates' Copyright Agenda
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A couple of weeks ago, I was talking about the striking success of the Pirate Party in the German local elections. Since then, an opinion...
06 June 2011
The Great Prize: Innovating Without Monopolies
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Last week I was in Brussels, talking at the European Parliament - not, I hasten to add, talking to the Parliament. This was a more intimate ...
17 June 2010
Red Letter Day for ACTA in EU: Let's Use It
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This week is one of the magic " plenary " ones in the European Parliament: Only during the plenary weeks of June 14-17 and July 5...
25 March 2010
Urgent: Please Write to your MEPs in Next Hour
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There's a big “plenary vote” in the European Parliament at 11.30 local time (10.30 UK time). This is great opportunity for MEPs to sign ...
11 March 2010
A Class Act from the European Parliament
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One of the most dispiriting aspects of the ACTA saga is that practically everything has been conducted behind closed doors. What we know is ...
29 January 2010
EU's Gallo Report: Rubbish Recycled
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I've noted several times an increasingly popular trope of the intellectual monopolists: since counterfeiting is often linked with organi...
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