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If you needed proof that the UK government simply hasn't thought through the implications of its Digital Economy Bill, look no further t...

It seems an unfair fight. On the one hand, you have some of the biggest, most powerful multinationals, intent on defending their turf and e...

Earlier this year, I had some problems with a statement from the Open Solution Alliance's Anthony Gold. Here are my comments from the ti...

Nicely put by the Open Rights Group: Wednesday is the last full day to lobby your MEPs in Strasbourg before this Thursday’s vote on copyrig...

Things seem to be going from bad to worse with the EU's Telecoms Package . Now, not only do we have to contend with French attempts to ...

...one of the bigger wrongs in the field of copyright is the proposed extension for sound recordings. I've written extensively about w...

Back in July I urged you to write to your MEPs about the Telecoms Package. Well, I'm at it again: the main vote was postponed, and will ...

The Open Rights Group has a great story about an eminent intellectual monopoly academic giving the lie to the current European Commission p...

The pernicious "three strikes and you're out" idea is still about, and the Open Rights Group has news that an attempt may be ...

Even though the Gowers Review comprehensively trashed the idea of extending copyright for sound recordings, zombie-like it's back as a P...

When the Gowers review of copyright in the UK came out I was ambivalent : there was some good things, but also areas that were potentially p...

A couple of days ago I mentioned two key players in the fight to get the BBC to do the right thing over its downloads service. Groklaw has...

Will this response from the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport go down in history as the great turning point for copyright, when th...

Rather belatedly (sorry, ORG ) I got round to reading the Open Rights Group report on the e-voting trials in the UK. It's fantastic st...

This is a tiny footnote to the larger story of the imminent IPRED2 vote, but I think in its own way it's a fine parable about the power ...

For anyone in Swinging London 2.0 next Wednesday, the place to be is the Open Rights Group party : It will be a night of public domain and o...

Well, it does if you are Brit caricaturist, parodist, pasticheur or general masher-upper: The Patent Office is charged with implementing th...