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I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the main area...

I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the ma...

When the European Commission was laying the foundations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership - TTIP, also known as T...

Earlier this year we wrote about how AbbVie, the pharma company spun out of Abbott Laboratories, had gone to court to stop the European...

Revelations about the staggering levels of online surveillance that are now routine in this country have been met with a stunning silence...

I first wrote about the importance of open clinical trials two years ago. More recently, I urged people to contact their MEP s for a cruc...

The story of open data in the UK has been fairly uplifting in recent years, as more and more public datasets are released under liberal ...

I've written a few times about open data in the context of clinical trials - the information that must be provided when new drugs s...

As readers of this blog will have noticed, much of the most innovative work in the field of openness is taking place in open data. One ...

Last month Techdirt wrote about the case of the giant pharma company AbbVie seeking to prevent the European Medicines Agency from relea...

Nearly three years ago, I wrote an article exploring why at that time there were no billion-dollar companies (since then, Red Hat has fin...

Traditionally, there has been a blithe assumption that more innovation occurs when patents are granted than when they are not. But as T...

Back in February, I noted that the UK' s investigation into making clinical trial data freely available was somewhat subsidiary to th...

Update:  Maël Brunet has  pointed out  that the press release I linked to below is from 2011; what was actually  announced yesterday  was...

Although the use of open source by the UK government has an unhappy history (and one that certainly isn't finished), one ray of hope ...

One of the initiatives gaining momentum around the world is open data -- the idea that, for example, non-personal data affecting the pub...

One of the richest seams of open data concerns transport. After all, by their very nature, transport systems generate huge amounts of ne...

Back in November last year, I wrote about a particular class of open data - that regarding clinical trials data. I pointed out that of...

Recently, Techdirt noted that the European "database right" could pose a threat to releasing public data there. But that assu...

One of the more benighted moves by the European Union was the introduction of a special kind of copyright for databases in 1996: not for...