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It will not have escaped your notice that the patent system has been the subject of several posts on this blog, or that the general tenor is...

A couple of days ago I wrote about the deal between the regional government of Puglia and Microsoft, noting that it was frustrating that we...

The announcement that Attachmate would acquire Novell for $2.2 billion has naturally provoked a flurry of comments and analyses in the free ...

It's clearly still far too early to attempt to assess the impact of Wikileaks' latest mega-leak, this time of US secret cables, whic...

There's a nice little argument bubbling away over in the south of Italy. It concerns the decision of Nichi Vendola, the president of Pug...

It is a truism that slow-moving law cannot keep up with fleet-of-foot digital technology, so that makes the rare court decision dealing with...

Wikipedia is often regarded as little more than a poor person's encyclopedia, providing a handy reference collection of basic facts. Bu...

As a I wrote a couple of days ago, the current flood of open data announcements, notably by the UK government, is something of a two-edged s...

A couple of days ago I wrote that ACTA was doomed because its attempts to enforce copyright through even more punitive measures will simply...

Last Friday, I went along to what I thought would be a pretty routine press conference about open data - just the latest in a continuing dri...

There is a great new paper out with the title "ACTA as a New Kind of International IP Law-Making": The ACTA negotiations are impo...

Openness is inherently political, because it dares to assert that we little people have a right to see what the powerful would hide. There...

A few months ago, Musopen ran a fundraiser on Kickstarter: Musopen is a non-profit dedicated to providing copyright free music content: mus...

I thought we had got beyond this daftness : A Cellist was held at Heathrow Airport and questioned for 8 hours this week. A terrorist suspec...

Here's an interesting move : Britons will be forced to apply online for government services such as student loans, driving licences, pas...

Yesterday I went along to the launch of the next stage of the UK government's open data initiative, which involved releasing information...

Regular readers of this blog will know that I've tracked the rather painful history of attempts to increase the deployment of free soft...

The European Commission looms large in these pages. But despite that importance, it remains - to me, at least - an opaque beast. Hugely-impo...

There's an important conference taking place in Brussels next week: "Tensions between Intellectual Property Rights and the ICT sta...

Although I don't use it much myself, I've heard that Facebook is quite popular in some quarters. This makes its technological moves ...

As you may have noticed, I've been writing quite a lot about the imminent European Interoperability Framework (EIF), and the extent to w...

By now, you will have read all about the #twitterjoketrial . But you may not have come across this story : On 17 of October, Wang Yi retwee...

Here's one of those tedious court decisions that show the judges don't really get this new-fangled Internet thing: Pünktlich zum ei...

Once upon a time, the Netcraft Web server market share was reported upon eagerly every month for the fact that it showed open source soundly...

I know you probably didn't notice, but I posted very little on this blog last week - nothing, in fact. This was not down to me going “me...