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Back in November, during the UK's second lockdown, I put online my novel about travel and tourism – " Egyptian Romance " – sin...

As Techdirt has been pointing out for years , newspaper paywalls make no sense. By stopping people from reading your stories unless t...

As we've noted before, Amazon is beginning to wield  considerable power  over the entire publishing chain. The past teaches us that a...

One of the slogans of the copyright industries is that you can't make money from giving things away. Unfortunately for them, example...

Over the last few years, Techdirt has been reporting on a steady stream of victories for open access. Along the way publishers have tri...

As Techdirt reported a few months back, the Supreme Court Justices seem rightly concerned about the " parade of horribles " -- ...

Julia Schramm is one of the rising stars of the German Pirate Party: in April, when she was just 27 years old, she was elected to the nat...

It's something of a truism that the courts take time to catch up with technology, especially in the fast-moving world of the Internet,...

As Techdirt has noted , the main threat to artists is not piracy, but obscurity -- the fact that few know they are creating interesting s...

It would be something of an understatement to say that the world of public libraries is undergoing rapid change at the moment. On the one...

As a way of fighting unauthorized sharing of digital files, DRM is particularly stupid. It not only doesn't work -- DRM is always bro...

Publishers find themselves confronted by a difficult dilemma at the moment. On the one hand, they might want e-books to succeed, because ...

Against the background of today's war on sharing, exemplified by SOPA and PIPA, traditional libraries underline an inconvenient truth:...

One of the recommendations made by the Hargreaves Review in the UK was that a text- and data-mining exception to copyright should be cre...

Increasingly, publishers are joining the music and film industries in bemoaning the effects of piracy on the sales of digital products – a...

The launch of Amazon's Kindle Fire at a price well below expectations has naturally focused people's attention on the e-book sid...

Somehow you rather expect the head of the WIPO to come out with a statement on the potential benefits of patenting the World Wide Web. Bu...

Here's an almost unbelievable piece about what's happening in Germany right now: It looks as if publishers might really be lobbying...

Before Peter Suber became Mr Open Access, he was a philosopher by trade. This is evident in the long, thoughtful essays he writes for the S...

Great point here from Adam Tinworth, about why traditional publishers are suffering so badly at the hands of the bloggers: the new breed of...