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13 June 2018
Please Write to Your MEPs to Stop EU Copyright Directive from Seriously Harming the Internet
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Next week, a crucial vote will be held by the Legal Affairs committee of the European Parliament (JURI). It concerns the proposed copyrigh...
29 March 2017
The Copyright Industry's So-Called "Value Gap" Is Actually an Innovation Gap
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The is a crucial year for the Internet in Europe, because 2017 will see key decisions made about the shape of copyright law in the EU. Tha...
26 July 2014
British Judge Rules Google Can Be Sued In UK Over Privacy Case
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The battle over online privacy, and how personal data should be treated as it moves over the Internet, is being fought between the US an...
24 July 2014
Suitcase-Sized Drones Extend And Deepen OpenStreetMap's Coverage
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An increasing number of online services use location information. This places suppliers like Google, with its Google Maps, in a strong ...
19 September 2013
Google Proposes Clever Video Codec License -- But The Real Problem With Patent Pools Remains
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A couple of years back, Techdirt wrote about Google's laudable attempt to open source its VP8 video codec , based around technologies ...
NSA Spying Revelations Start To Cause Outrage In Europe; China Next?
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News that the NSA has unfettered access to most of the leading Internet services inevitably has an international dimension. After all, ...
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter And Yahoo Refuse To Cooperate With UK's 'Snooper's Charter'
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A month ago, we wrote about how the UK's infamous " Snooper's Charter " had been scuppered by Nick Clegg, the UK's ...
20 July 2013
The Free, Open Web: 20 Years of RF Licensing
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As regular readers of this column know, there's still a battle going on over whether standards should be FRAND or restrict...
14 April 2013
Google Under Attack in the EU: Microsoft to the Rescue?
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As I wrote last week, all the main browsers are jockeying for position in the world of mobile, which is generally recognised as the key...
31 March 2013
If Microsoft Shuts Down Google Maps In Germany, How Does That Benefit The Public?
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Most sane human beings have stopped trying to keep up with the interwined legal actions arising out of the smartphone patent wars betwe...
Is This What Google Really Thinks About Privacy?
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I've been writing quite a lot about the current Data Protection regulation that is being considered in the European Parliament. As I...
German Newspaper 'Snippet' Law Passes: Watered Down, But Still Stupid
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For a year now, Techdirt has been following the sorry saga of Germany's attempt to make search engines and others pay for licenses t...
10 February 2013
Google's Other Bad Idea: Offering 50 Million Euros To French Newspapers [Updated]
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Earlier this week we wrote about a strange move by Google: apparently agreeing to pay the French telecoms company Orange extra to deliver...
Google Decides Smartphone Market Share Is More Important Than Net Neutrality
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As a recent post noted, net neutrality is under threat in France, with ISPs like Free asking Google to pay extra for delivery of its tr...
08 December 2012
UK Recording Industry Doesn't Want Google To Reduce Piracy Until It Reduces Piracy
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Techdirt has written before about the self-destructive vindictiveness of the copyright industries, which would rather die in a futile at...
11 November 2012
The Irresistible Rise of Android
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In the wake of the news that Android sales now represent around 75% of the global smartphone market during the most recent quarter, ther...
29 September 2012
Rupert Murdoch Admits Defeat: Now Wants London Times To Appear In Search Results
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Remember back in 2009, when Techdirt reported that Rupert Murdoch hated Google so much he had decided to block the search engine from in...
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...
12 May 2012
Why Microsoft Loves The Rise of (Some) Openness
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how businesses based around giving stuff away were able to make money by replacing far more expensive opt...
27 April 2012
The Serious Business of Open Source, Inc.
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One of open source's great strengths is that it is not a company. This means that traditional methods of nullifying its threat – such ...
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