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In the last few days, we've seen an extraordinary wave of announcements by governments in Europe, particularly its eastern part, that...

Nicely put by the Open Rights Group: Wednesday is the last full day to lobby your MEPs in Strasbourg before this Thursday’s vote on copyrig...

Surprisingly spot-on piece in FT today about netbooks. Key bit: The netbook category is posing a challenge for Microsoft, the biggest sof...

The FT seems not to understand copyright: Brussels is expected to push ahead next week with reforms that would allow European singers and m...

I've railed frequently against the con-trick of calling intellectual monopolies "intellectual property", which tries to endow ...

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In the two years since legislation for a UK national identity card scheme gained royal assent, the case against the multi-billion pound prog...

FT.com, the Internet version of the Financial Times, is instituting a new model for free and paid content on its website. Starting tomorrow,...

The FT has little votette underway: Should music companies drop DRM? Steve Jobs, Apple’s charismatic chief executive, has proposed that re...

I am always amused - and slightly annoyed - that so much space is devoted to the wit and wisdom of Steve Ballmer, because basically he has n...

The Gowers Review is now out . I've not had time to read it all yet, but there's a good summary in the Treasury's press release...

Sir John Sulston is one of my heroes, right up there with RMS. Indeed, Sulston can reasonably be called the RMS of genomics (or maybe RMS i...

Surprisingly subversive little piece in the FT : Since Bahrain’s government blocked the Google Earth website earlier this year for its intr...

The tantalising story in the FT that Oracle is ruminating upon acquiring one of the main GNU/Linux distributions - well, Novell - is bound...

Although not quite in the same class as Open Access News in terms of signal-to-noise ratio, Slashdot does have its uses, not least as raw en...