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The is a crucial year for the Internet in Europe, because 2017 will see key decisions made about the shape of copyright law in the EU. Tha...

As we've noted before, when it comes to the Internet, governments around the world have an unfortunate habit of copying each other...

Although the European Union finally approved the continent-wide Unitary Patent in December 2012, after decades of discussions, the story...

We wrote a couple of weeks ago how some were arguing that Spain ought to go back on the "naughty" Special 301 list for failin...

Here on Techdirt, one of the things we look forward to each year is the comedy production known as the 301 Report, where the US makes the...

Daft trademarking stories are common enough, but it's always fun to come across new variations on the theme. Netzpolitik points us t...

Last week I wrote a piece suggesting that FRAND is dying. It was written in the wake of the major UK decision on open standards, and wa...

Remember that sweet octogenarian lady in Spain who tried to restore a 19th-century fresco "Ecce Homo" and ended up producing so...

As Techdirt reported earlier this year, Spain's Sinde Law, designed to combat file sharing by blocking sites with allegedly infringi...

One of the favorite assumptions of industries based around copyright used to be that every pirated copy is a lost sale. More recently, th...

It was just over a year ago that the Digital Economy Act was passed. Of course, the battle to stop this insanity goes on, although the recen...

Something entitled “Report on the International Status of Open Source Software 2010” sounds pretty dry, as does its summary: The objective o...

How about this : an open operating system for a *city*? Misión: idear, desarrollar, testear, implementar y difundir componentes de un nuevo ...

in January 2010, Spain will take over the Presidency of the European Community. Spanish Government has already announced that one of their f...

I've written a number of times about Spain's use of free software, notably at the provincial level. There's even a handy - if r...

There is something of a battle going on over the use of open source by local and national governments. Mostly, this centres on cost, togethe...

Most people know that the Estremadura region in Spain is a pacesetter in terms of deploying free software, but here's a handy map that ...

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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...