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ratchet
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18 September 2013
Now US And EU Want To Apply Upward Ratchet To TRIPS Itself
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Here on Techdirt we often talk about the copyright ratchet -- the fact that for three hundred years changes to copyright have always b...
23 June 2012
Copyright Ratchet In Action Again: UK Introduces Yet Another Unjustified Extension
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Until recently there has been an unchallenged assumption that the more copyright, the better. Although people have begun to realize that...
21 June 2010
Copyright Ratchet, Copyright Racket
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I can't believe this. A few days ago I wrote about the extraordinary extra monopolies the German newspaper industry wanted - including ...
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06 December 2007
Microsoft: Gone in a Flash
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I have commented here and elsewhere that the new category of ultra-light portables using flash memory represents a huge opportunity for GN...
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02 December 2007
The Joy of Ratchetlessness
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Irrespective of the relative merits of free and proprietary software, there is one aspect where free software wins hands down. Proprietary ...
03 November 2007
Steve Jobs as a Ratchet of Openness
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Normally, I would hawk and spit at the mere mention of the iPhone, since it's not exactly an open platform. But here's a more measu...
25 July 2007
The End of the Copyright Ratchet/Racket?
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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...
28 May 2007
The Intellectual Monopoly Ratchet
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One of the most frightening aspects of the intellectual monopoly game is the ratchet effect. A country typically increases intellectual mon...
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