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When it comes to ACTA and TPP, China is the elephant in the room -- or maybe that should be the dragon in the room. For without China's...

As the mobile phone moves closer to the center of daily life in many parts of the world, combining phone, computer, camera, diary, music pl...

Earlier this year, Poland played a crucial role in igniting street protests that pretty much stopped ACTA in its tracks. That's not th...

On Monday I posted my talk "Before and After SOPA ". In it, there's a reference to "country club" treaties (slid...

Even though just about every objective statistic suggests otherwise , the copyright industries still take turns bemoaning the terrible tol...

Last week Techdirt wrote about the possible introduction of an "opt-in" license to view porn online in the UK. As we noted then,...

Ten years ago, people were saying that open source would never be able to best proprietary software. But what they overlooked was the fa...

Words matter -- just think of the number of times flame wars have broken out in Techdirt's comments over whether you can "steal...

News that Harvard University is the latest to join the growing revolt against the exorbitant pricing of academic journals caused something...

A few weeks ago, I gave a talk at the Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference with the title "Before and After SOPA ". Much of i...

Over the last few months, Techdirt has been reporting on the amazing rise of the German Pirate Party, with win after win after win . Po...

When discussing ACTA, there's a natural tendency to concentrate on the bigger players -- the US or the EU -- but it's important to...

The damage that software patents cause to innovation in the computer world is a constant theme here on Techdirt. But as a fascinating n...

The problems of monopolies arising through network effects, and the negative effects of the lock-in that results, are familiar enough. Bu...

Whatever you might have thought of his policies, Nicolas Sarkozy probably had more impact on European copyright policy than any other EU ...

Since my last ACTA update , plenty has been happening - there's really never a dull moment in this area.  On Open Enterprise blog .

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how businesses based around giving stuff away were able to make money by replacing far more expensive opt...

What an extraordinary year this has been for Net activism. After the great SOPA blackout led to SOPA and PIPA being withdrawn, and the an...

One of the beloved tropes of the copyright industries is that they are being destroyed by online piracy. Superficially, it's a plausi...

Neelie Kroes gave a keynote speech at this year's re:publica conference in Berlin (disclosure: I spoke there too) that brought toget...

It would be something of an understatement to say that the world of public libraries is undergoing rapid change at the moment. On the one...

Techdirt has published several posts recently about the growing anger among scholars over the way their work is exploited by academic pu...

Yesterday I looked at the first part of a long document that Microsoft sent the Cabinet Office in October last year. Here I'd like ...

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...