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Back in April last year, we wrote about Colombia's own SOPA, the " Ley Lleras 2 " copyright bill (it's version 2, becau...

Last week, the British policeman Simon Harwood was acquitted of killing a man during the 2009 G20 protests in London -- a controversial v...

It is a truism that slow-moving law cannot keep up with fleet-of-foot digital technology, so that makes the rare court decision dealing with...

Yet more innovation around open source ideas, from an outfit called LexPublica (with a clever URL, too): There is a crying need for access...

To say that cloud computing is trendy would be an understatement: the topic is almost inescapable in the world of computing these days. I...

As RMS emphasises again and again, at the heart of free software lies an ethical vision of sharing and mutual respect. Although open source...

As I've noted before, free software stands in an odd relationship with the law that governs it. On the one hand, free software could no...

Ever since RMS drew up the GNU GPL, code and law have been inextricably linked. Mark Radcliffe provides a good summary of the last year fr...

Code and law have been inextricably mixed ever since Richard Stallman drew up the first GNU GPL. Indeed, in many ways, the logical processe...

Bad decision, bad news : the Court states that operators of Internet forums are liable for all comments posted there, even if the operator h...