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By their very nature, drug patents can create monopolies that allow prices to be kept artificially high. In other domains that may be si...

One of the striking features of some of the most successful startups over the last ten years – companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter...

One of the great tasks facing humanity today is digitizing the world's books and liberating the huge stores of knowledge they contain....

As the battle rages over SOPA and PIPA, censorship is very much on people's minds. But there are many different kinds of censorship, ...

Copyright maximalism has proceeded along two axes. The first is the term of copyright, which has been steadily extended from the basic 14...

As this timeline indicates, Brazil's attempts to draw up a copyright reform bill have been dragging on for five years now. That in ...

Back in February of this year, I wrote about PPN 3/11, a Cabinet Office “Procurement Policy Note - Use of Open Standards when specifying ...

Those with good memories may recall the following amusing episode when BT wanted to sue people for daring to use its super-duper patented h...

QuestionCopyright has an interesting article about the role that open access might play in opening up China to new ideas . But what really...

Trey Ratcliff is an extremely successful photographer, who specializes in HDR photography. His blog Stuck in Customs is the top travel p...

The latest big boost to open access has come from in UK government's "Innovation and research strategy for growth" ( pdf ), w...

The contentious nature of the "three strikes" response to unauthorized sharing of copyright materials can be seen by the legal b...

At the end of last week, the Council of the European Union – which is where national ministers from each EU country meet to adopt laws an...

Apple has been garnering quite a reputation for itself as a patent bully, for example using patents around the world in an attempt to sto...

Most people instinctively appreciate the dangers of government surveillance. But at least it's possible to be on your guard when you ...

It's no secret that Windows Phone is struggling desperately in the battle against the smartphone leaders, iPhone and Android. And de...

There has been a flurry of excitement about Mozilla recently. Not, as you might hope, about the latest version of Firefox; one of the uni...

The narrative around counterfeit goods usually ends with their seizure. We rarely get to hear or see what happens to them afterwards unl...

The road to copyright reform is a long one, full of false starts and diversions. Those with good memories may recall the Gowers Review fr...

As readers of this blog will have noticed, open data is particularly hot at the moment. Whether that will endure is another matter, but f...

The Vice President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe, Neelie Kroes, recently made quite a stir when...

One of the most important aspects of the UK's Hargreaves Report was that it called for copyright policy to be based on evidence. It a...

A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference .  This was the first time I'd visited Bolzano/Bozen; although...

One of the favorite techniques of those pushing for ever-more severe penalties for copyright infringement is to blur the distinction betwe...

Last week I took part in a meeting at the European Parliament entitled “Horizon 2020: Investing in the common good”. Here's the backg...