Showing posts with label netherlands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label netherlands. Show all posts
26 July 2014

EU's Advocate-General Says Dutch Allowing Unauthorized Downloads Is Incompatible With European Copyright Law

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Back in 2012, Ben Zevenbergen wrote a long piece exploring a complicated Dutch case that had been referred to the Court of Justice of t...
24 November 2013

Dutch Telcos Used Customer Metadata, Retained To Fight Terrorism, For Everyday Marketing Purposes

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One of the ironies of European outrage over the global surveillance conducted by the NSA and GCHQ is that in the EU, communications metad...
26 October 2013

Two New Reports Confirm: Best Way To Reduce Piracy Dramatically Is To Offer Good Legal Alternatives

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At the beginning of last year we reported on a Swedish study that showed that streaming services had halved the number of people who wer...

Dutch Libraries Go To Court To Make Sure They Can Lend Ebooks

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As we've noted before, many publishers have the crazy attitude that ebooks shouldn't be lent by libraries, and that it should be...
19 September 2013

Do Dutch Spies Also Have Access To PRISM's Data? And If So, Who Else Does?

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In the wake of the leaks about NSA's spying activities around the world, one of the interesting subsidiary questions is: who else h...
23 March 2012

Should There Be A Right To Copyright Exceptions?

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Last month I wrote about how the Netherlands is looking to introduce new flexibilities into its copyright laws, based on some interesting ...
02 March 2012

Dutch Research Reveals Wide Scope For Copyright Flexibilities In EU Laws

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A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about a surprising initiative by the Netherlands to introduce new flexibilities into its copyright...
17 February 2012

Dutch Government: Make European Copyright Exceptions More Flexible

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Well, here's a turn-up for the books. At a time when the European Commission is insisting that the copyright ratchet should be tighte...
23 May 2011

Caution on that "Call for Caution on Open Source"

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The Guardian has published a very curious piece today, entitled: “A Call for Caution on Open Source”. It concludes: The UK coalition governm...
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20 May 2009

Opening Up in the Netherlands

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It's really heartening to see this openness/transparency meme blooming everywhere. But the forces of ignorance are fighting a rearguard...
06 February 2008

UN University Launches OpenCourseWare

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It seems a no-brainer that the United Nations University (yes, it exists ) should make available its courses for the world and her dog to us...
02 July 2007

The Birth of Blognation

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I was a big fan of the Vecosys blog - I even got used to its horrible name. And then it went away, only to emerge, phoenix-like, from the ...
12 February 2007

La Seconde Vie, Das Zweite Leben

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Now what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. To say nothing of Second Life. And...
26 December 2006

Open Source Goes Dutch

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More good news from Europe (Via Australia , bizarrely): The City of Amsterdam said Friday it will spend euro300,000 (US$400,00) testing open...