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In my first two posts about Microsoft's lobbying against true open standards, I concentrated on a document sent to the Cabinet Office ...

We reported last week that the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament had decided to vote against the ratification of ACTA; n...

A constant theme here on Techdirt is that it's not the idea that's crucial, but the execution. Here's someone who seems to agr...

Even though most of the focus around here has been on the UK government's Open Standards consultation (I do hope you've managed to...

Governments around the world are seeking to monitor more and more of their citizens' online activities -- and it's not just the mo...

The dramatic announcement that the EU's rapporteur on ACTA, David Martin, would be recommending that the European Parliament should re...

As you may have noticed, open standards are a hot topic currently. One person who deals with them all the time in a variety of ways is Ch...

Back in 2009, Techdirt wrote about an interesting challenge to a then-new law against counterfeits in Kenya, on the grounds that it migh...

One of open source's great strengths is that it is not a company. This means that traditional methods of nullifying its threat – such ...

Open Access continues to gain momentum , as more and more researchers seek to make their work freely available online. One way of doing ...

As Techdirt has reported , the London 2012 Olympics bring with them a range of "special" measures guaranteed to make London a p...

In may last column, I wrote about Microsoft's efforts last year to derail any possible adoption of ODF. That's very telling, bec...

Not content with inventing the Web and then giving it away, Tim Berners-Lee remains highly active in warning about the threats the Intern...

As if Italians didn't have enough problems, it seems that their government is trying to sneak through a proposal supposedly designed to...

As China continues to climb up the economic rankings (it became number two last year, in case you missed it) its domestic policy begins t...

In yesterday's post about Microsoft's lobbying of the Cabinet Office against truly open standards based on RF licensing, I spent...

As Techdirt reported a couple of years ago, a hard-fought campaign in New Zealand to prevent software patents being granted there seemed...

In my last post, I wrote about my Freedom of Information request to find out how Microsoft had been lobbying against true open standards...

Last week, the EU Rapporteur on ACTA, David Martin, announced he would recommend that the European Parliament reject the treaty. He has n...

Light Blue Touchpaper is a blog written by researchers in the Security Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory (don't...

Regular readers may recall that I was not a little taken aback by an astonishing U-turn performed by the Cabinet Office on the matter of o...

Last week we saw the Socialists and Democrats, the second-largest bloc in the European Parliament, turn against ACTA. Combined with the ...

Here's an interesting development in the legal battle between Microsoft and Motorola in Germany that we discussed recently. It seems ...

As we recently reported , ACTA has been dealt a serious blow by the EU Rapporteur's recommendation that the European Parliament shoul...

As a way of fighting unauthorized sharing of digital files, DRM is particularly stupid. It not only doesn't work -- DRM is always bro...