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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...