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Just when you think that Sarkozy can't get any worse, he does : Le ministère des affaires étrangères a fait savoir que la France ne so...

As I indicated yesterday, I have serious doubts about the UK government's policy on copyright. But while that has been something of a di...

The "copyright levy" - typically a charge levied on blank recording media such as audio tapes, CDs and DVDs - is a total anachroni...

As readers of this blog probably recall, the passage of the Digital Economy Act was one of the most disgraceful episodes in the history of t...

I joined Twitter on 1st January 2010 as an experiment. I wanted to see whether this trendy thing had any real merit, or was simply the late...

I am really quite relieved Google is trying to acquire Motorola Mobility. Not because I think it will solve all the problems of Android - it...

Back in April, when Apple sued Samsung in the US, I noted that Apple's claims seemed pretty over the top - basically claiming that any r...

As I've noted , there is an sudden efflorescence of writing about the ills of the patent system. Obviously, on one level, that's gr...

The pundits have only just begun to offer their weighty thoughts on the subject, but already one of the key threads to emerge in discussions...

Microsoft has a problem to solve. On the one hand, open source is not going away – its distributed, modular and iterative approach clearly h...

One of the joys of reading blogs is that you get to follow writers who are focussed on one particular area, and who, as a result of that alm...

One of the key recent shifts in government policy has been a move towards openness. But this is not from some deeply-held belief that “it...

Last year, one of the key themes of this blog was the battle over version 2 of the European Interoperability Framework, and its definition o...

As you may have gathered, the World Wide Web celebrated its 20th birthday recently, since it was publicly announced for the first time on 6 ...

Something wonderful has happened over the last few weeks: more people have woken up to the threat that patents represent to innovation. I...

Yesterday I wrote about the BPI's reaction to the UK Government's response to the Hargreaves Report. Not surprisingly, the Musicia...

The news about "Operation Shady Rat" has naturally provoked much interest (as it was intended to....) After all, who could not f...

After the UK Government unveiled its pretty reasonable response to the Hargreaves Report ( analysed by me yesterday), the lobbying begins :...

I've written a number of columns about the Hargreaves Review, and its generally sensible ideas. But, ultimately, those proposals mean no...

A couple of weeks ago, the innocuously-named “Public Administration Committee” of the House of Commons published a rather more surprisingly-...

The documents obtained by FoI requests that I referred to in an earlier post today have proved richer than we expected: Previously confide...

For many years, Brazil has been a shining beacon of how to do it right when it came to openness and sharing. For example, in the field of o...

The passing of the Digital Economy Act remains one of the worst blots on the British political system in recent years. As anyone who had th...

On the first LP I ever owned was Tchaikovsky's Serenade, Ravel's Bolero and Smetana's "Bartered Bride" Overture. It w...

Last year, there was a lot of handwringing about Firefox's continuing loss of market share. This was only by relatively small amounts, b...