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For some reason, I seem to be giving talks all over the place this month. I've already written about the one that I presented at the Eur...

I've noted before that we are witnessing a classic patent thicket in the realm of smartphones, with everyone and his or her dog suing ev...

One of the most fascinating aspects of open source is how its key ideas are being applied elsewhere. Obvious examples include open content -...

Xiph.org has an interesting name and the following forthright self-description: Xiph.Org is a collection of open source, multimedia-related ...

The key hack that made free software possible was a legal one: using copyright to keep software free. It did that by demanding a quid pro qu...

There's considerable excitement about an announcement from the British Library and Google detailing a wonderful gift to the world: The ...

You wouldn't expect much else from a meeting organised by WIPO, but this is pretty rich even for them: Copyright is necessary to allow ...

Last week I wrote about a talk I gave with the title “Innovation inducement prizes as a possible mechanism to unlock the benefits of open in...

If you want a vision of the world of global repression and bullying that copyright maximalists are striving to create, try this: A Sheffield...

I've written plenty about why software patents should be resisted where they don't exist, and abolished where they do. But if I want...

It's easy to take things for granted – to assume that the world will always be as it is. And then sometimes you receive a mild jolt: som...

In a previous column, I mentioned that I was invited to talk at a meeting at the European Parliament about innovation prizes last week. That...

Since Apple has replaced Microsoft as the leading patent-wielding cheerleader for closed-source computing, it will come as no surprise that ...

Last week I was in Brussels, talking at the European Parliament - not, I hasten to add, talking to the Parliament. This was a more intimate ...

Here's some good news : You can download for free the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. They were recorded by Dr. James Kib...

Now that the dust has settled a little on the Hargreaves report, I thought it might be worth revisiting it, but looking at it from a slightl...

I wrote last week about a curious article in the Guardian calling for “caution” on open source. And now we have another odd piece: The sad t...

Google's Summer of Code has been running for a few years now, and is an established and important fixture for the free software world: S...

One of the central arguments I and others make is that piracy is actually *good* for media producers in all sorts of ways (there lots of lin...

It's nearly summertime. How do I know? Not, of course, by looking at the iffy British weather outside, but because Google's Summer o...

As I've written too many times, software patents make no sense for lots of reasons. Although rather more circumspect than me in its phra...

The Guardian has published a very curious piece today, entitled: “A Call for Caution on Open Source”. It concludes: The UK coalition governm...

In a couple of weeks' time, the World Copyright Summit takes place in Brussels: Creating value in the digital economy The World Copyrig...

It's a measure of how central traditionally dry-as-dust subjects like copyright and patents have become to the modern (digital) world th...

One of the problems with the rapid pace of development in the world of computers is that the latter become out of date and slightly slow com...