Showing posts with label european union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label european union. Show all posts
31 March 2013

Public Well-Being Must Be 'Primary Measurement' Of US-EU Trade Agreement

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Now that the US and EU have officially announced the start of talks on a new bilateral free trade agreement -- sorry, a "trade an...
29 September 2012

EU Officials Propose Internet Cops On Patrol, No Anonymity & No Obscure Languages (Because Terrorism!)

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Back in February we wrote about the ominously-named "Clean IT" project in Europe, designed to combat the use of the Internet b...
04 February 2012

ACTA Update II

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Although ACTA is billed as a global treaty, there are only two participants that really matter: the US and the European Union. If either...
24 December 2009

ACTA as the (Fool's) "Gold Standard"

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I've noted before that at the heart of the ACTA negotiations there is a con-trick being played upon the world: insofar as the mighty on...
18 August 2009

The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly in the Plan

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in January 2010, Spain will take over the Presidency of the European Community. Spanish Government has already announced that one of their f...
16 September 2008

"Written Declaration" on Open Source in the EU

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I've written before how worthwhile it is contacting your MEPs about open source and related matters. Well, here's another opportunit...
13 December 2007

Microsoft, Browsers and Bundling

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It's déjà vu all over again : Opera Software has filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft in the European Union, accusing it of stiflin...
04 December 2007

Copying Patent Stupidity

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I thought patents were supposed to stop copying, and yet here we have the European Union trying to copy an American idea that has led almos...
05 October 2007

Communia Communes with the Commons

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Hopeful sign , here: The COMMUNIA Thematic Network wants to place itself as the European point of reference for theoretical analysis and str...
16 August 2007

Of Open and Closed Geography

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Talking of the price we pay for idiotically closed geographical data : The United States has benefitted in many ways from having public dat...
14 August 2007

A Public Enquiry into the Public Domain

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The public domain is a vastly underappreciated resource - which probably explains why there have been so many successful assaults on it in r...
05 June 2007

OA vs. Political and Selective Use of Data

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Here's a great - and sadly necessary - piece of analysis : Throughout the first half of 2007, the White House has falsely claimed that t...
05 March 2007

EU in SL?

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Apparently : The European Union is looking into entering the virtual world and opening up an office in Second Life - an increasingly popular...
31 January 2007

Conservation Commons

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A little while back I was urging you to sign a petition calling for open access in the European Union (you did sign, didn't you?). Now...
13 January 2007

Getting it Right on Copyright in Europe

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The European Union is commissioning some seriously serious research these days. Yesterday I wrote about the impressively named and indeed ...
22 November 2006

Inspired or Not?

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This sounds good news : The European Parliament and Council reached agreement last night on the contents of the proposed INSPIRE Directive, ...
12 October 2006

EU: Not at All Patent to Me...

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Well, I still don't really know what's going on as far as patents in Europe are concerned. But the Foundation for a Free Informatio...
12 July 2006

Why Microsoft Got Thwacked

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If you were wondering what exactly the sticking point was that led to Microsoft getting thumped by the European Union, here's a helpful ...