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13 September 2012
Has The German Pirate Party Lost Its Way?
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For the last year, it seemed like the German Pirate Party could do no wrong. In November 2011, it won 9% of the vote in the Berlin parlia...
23 July 2012
French & German Courts Disagree Whether Internet Companies Need To Filter
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Recently, Techdirt reported on the ruling by a German court on the issue of filtering -- whether Internet sites have a responsibility to...
23 June 2012
Proposed Licensing For Newspaper Snippets Could Threaten Users Of Blogs, Facebook And Twitter In Germany
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A few months ago we wrote about a really bad idea that was being floated in Germany: making companies like Google pay for the use of new...
10 June 2012
Germany Increases 'You Are All Pirates' Tax On Solid State Media By 2000%
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Techflaws alerts us to an announcement by ZPÜ, the organization responsible for setting the levy on storage media in Germany, that fees ...
Which is Worse -- Sharing With Attribution, Or Plagiarism Without?
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At the end of last year we wrote about the case of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, former Federal Minister of Defense in Germany, who lost b...
12 May 2012
After the German Pirate Party's String Of Successes, Here Comes The Backlash
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Over the last few months, Techdirt has been reporting on the amazing rise of the German Pirate Party, with win after win after win . Po...
18 April 2012
US Judge Forbids Motorola From Using German Injunction Against Microsoft
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Here's an interesting development in the legal battle between Microsoft and Motorola in Germany that we discussed recently. It seems ...
As Germany Becomes Europe's East Texas, Microsoft Moves Its Distribution Center
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Just as companies often try to file their patent lawsuits in East Texas, so Germany is emerging as a favorite forum for patent litigation i...
06 April 2012
German Scriptwriters Attack 'Greens, Pirates, Left-wingers And Internet Community' For Daring To Have Different Views On Copyright
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The German series " Tatort " ("Crime Scene") has been running since 1970, and remains one of the most popular program...
23 March 2012
German Gov't Uses Anger Over Lack Of ACTA Transparency To Justify Further Lack Of Transparency
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Even though the ACTA text is now finalized, getting details from national governments about what exactly happened during the negotiations ...
15 March 2012
Spotify Finally Launches In Germany -- And Immediately Hits Data Protection Problems
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The music streaming service Spotify has adopted a rather unusual pattern of launches around the world. Founded in Sweden, it spread grad...
13 January 2012
German Court: ISP Must Not Block Access To Foreign Sites, Even If They Are Illegal
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Against a background where some European courts are telling ISPs that they must block access to certain sites (in Finland and the UK , for...
05 January 2012
German Court Decisions Make Everyday Use Of The Internet Increasingly Risky There
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Perhaps there's something about the German legal system that encourages judges to push their interpretation of the law to the limit, w...
13 December 2011
EU's Advisor On Supporting Net Activists Previously Forced From German Government...By Net Activists
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The Vice President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe, Neelie Kroes, recently made quite a stir when...
03 December 2011
The Pirate Party Effect: German Greens Scramble To Draw Up Digital Policies To Hold On To Voters
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The founding of the Pirate Party in Sweden in 2006 was regarded by many as a joke. After all, the argument went, who would want to be as...
01 November 2011
Germany To Put Special Monitoring Software On School Computers To Search For Infringement
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Just under a month ago, the "Chaos Computer Club" (CCC), which styles itself as "the largest European hacker club", had ...
04 October 2011
German Politician Who Wanted Two-Strike Copyright Law Should Disconnect Himself After Multiple Infringements Found
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One of the most noticeable trends in copyright law around the world is the way countries tend to adopt similar approaches. So after the &...
27 September 2011
Why It's Time to Party Like It's 2011
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The Pirate Party has hovered on the edge of politics for a while now, acting as a kind of gadfly to traditional parties - annoying but not...
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15 November 2010
German Court: Links Can Infringe on Copyright
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Here's one of those tedious court decisions that show the judges don't really get this new-fangled Internet thing: Pünktlich zum ei...
30 October 2010
An Uncommon Conference on the Commons
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Regular readers of this blog will know that the commons has been a major theme here for some years, since it offers an extremely fruitful wa...
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