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Last month I wrote about how the Netherlands is looking to introduce new flexibilities into its copyright laws, based on some interesting ...

Like many people, I've been tracking the steady ascent of Google Chrome - and corresponding decline of Microsoft's Internet Expl...

One reason the European Commission decided to refer ACTA to the European Court of Justice may have been in the hope that people would sim...

One of the recurrent themes on this blog is the painfully slow progress in terms of getting open source deployed by the UK government. T...

Last month Techdirt wrote about yet more secret meetings between the copyright and internet industries, this time in Australia, where th...

Even though the ACTA text is now finalized, getting details from national governments about what exactly happened during the negotiations ...

In an interesting blog post, James Firth discusses a comment from music industry analyst Mark Mulligan , quoted in a BBC story about the d...

Back in October I wrote about a UK government consultation on the subject of the proposed Public Data Corporation. The government has n...

Building on the solid work of the Hargreaves Report on copyright, the UK government took a surprisingly sensible attitude in its proposed...

It seems like the UK copyright studies and consultations have been going on for years - first with the Gowers Review , followed by the Harg...

One of the unresolved problems of copyright is how to deal with huge numbers of orphan works -- creations still in copyright, but whose o...

It's striking how drones have passed from a mysterious weapon used to wreak destruction in distant lands to something that could well ...

Regular readers of this column will know that I often write about the issues of open standards and FRAND vs. RF licensing. One particular c...

As Techdirt revealed a couple of days ago, one reason why the European Commission decided to refer ACTA to the European Court of Justice...

The music streaming service Spotify has adopted a rather unusual pattern of launches around the world. Founded in Sweden, it spread grad...

In my previous post about submitting a reply to the UK government consultation on copyright, I concentrated on one area, that of orphan ...

If there's a common trait of the various rightsholders groups around the world, it is their sense of entitlement. If anyone does anyt...

The progress made by the open data movement is pretty extraordinary. A few years ago, data was something that only statisticians cared a...

Now that the EU's ratification of ACTA has departed from the original script of everyone just waving it through, the European Commissi...

As Michael Geist and others have pointed out, ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement without the main sources of counterfeits b...

Although ACTA has now been referred by the European Commission to the European Court of Justice, it continues its passage through the va...

One of the common assumptions in the copyright debate is that artists are special, and that they have a right to make money from their wor...

As far as we can tell, ACTA has been put on hold for months, maybe even a year, while the European Court of Justice (ECJ) considers its c...

The Raspberry Pi is a $25 credit-card sized computer that has succeeded in making GNU/Linux not just newsworthy, but downright desirable...

Amidst the growing enthusiasm for digital texts -- ebooks and scans of illustrated books -- it's easy to overlook some important drawb...