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23 June 2012
Fifth EU Committee Recommends Rejection Of ACTA By European Parliament
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Another major milestone has been achieved in the push to get ACTA rejected by the EU: a fifth parliamentary committee has recommended that...
ACTA Update XVIII
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On the not-very-scientific basis of several calls to MEP s yesterday, the impression I get is that the right-of-centre ECR group on the INT...
Stopping ACTA: INTA Committee
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So, we arrive at the penultimate stage of the battle to stop ACTA in Europe. Before the final plenary vote in the European Parliament in ...
ACTA Update XVII
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Since my last ACTA update, quite a lot of good stuff has happened. For a start, all four European Parliament committees have recommended t...
10 June 2012
Stopping ACTA: DEVE Committee
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Most people have concentrated on the ITRE, JURI and LIBE committees (as I did in my previous posts this week). But there's a fourth ...
Stopping ACTA: JURI and LIBE Committees
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Yesterday I posted my submission to the ITRE committee; today I include my email to the JURI (legal affairs) and LIBE (civial liberties) ...
Stopping ACTA: ITRE Committee
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This is the first of my posts about the various committees that will be offering their recommendations to the European Parliament through ...
ACTA Doomsday Approaches - Please Help
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I have been writing about ACTA here for what seems several centuries. The good news is that I will stop doing that soon, because the key v...
27 April 2012
ACTA Update XIV
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Even though most of the focus around here has been on the UK government's Open Standards consultation (I do hope you've managed to...
17 February 2012
ACTA Update VI
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Yesterday, a disturbing story appeared on the German taz.de site: EU MPs have received thousands of emails from ACTA opponents. But no ...
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...
15 April 2011
Fighting the Copyright Ratchet Racket
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Copyright is nominally a compact between public and creator. A government-backed, time-limited monopoly on their works is offered to artists...
07 September 2010
ACTA: Please Do What Simon Says...
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I was about to write a long and passionate post imploring you to contact your MEPs one last time in order to get them to sign up to the impo...
08 July 2010
Act Now on ACTA (No, Really)
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Today is the last day for your MEPs to sign Written declaration ACTA 12/2010 (full background available from La Quadrature du Net.). To be p...
17 June 2010
Red Letter Day for ACTA in EU: Let's Use It
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This week is one of the magic " plenary " ones in the European Parliament: Only during the plenary weeks of June 14-17 and July 5...
31 May 2010
Urgent: Contact MEPs on the EU's Unbalanced Copyright Report
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You would have thought that what with local initiatives like the Digital Economy Act and global ones like ACTA, the copyright maximalists wo...
25 March 2010
Urgent: Please Write to your MEPs in Next Hour
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There's a big “plenary vote” in the European Parliament at 11.30 local time (10.30 UK time). This is great opportunity for MEPs to sign ...
11 March 2010
A Class Act from the European Parliament
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One of the most dispiriting aspects of the ACTA saga is that practically everything has been conducted behind closed doors. What we know is ...
01 March 2010
Act on ACTA: Write to Your MEPs
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As long-suffering readers will know, I've been banging on about the dangers to free software – and much else – of the Anti-Counterfeitin...
26 May 2009
Speak up for the Speaker's Principles
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In the past, I've frequently asked you write a letter to your MP or MEPs about issues that relate to technical issues around open source...
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