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It's something of a truism that the courts take time to catch up with technology, especially in the fast-moving world of the Internet,...

Yesterday I wrote that I hoped to post here my submission to the important EU consultation on net neutrality that is currently open. How...

The implicit justification for various new copyright enforcement laws, such as the "three strikes" approach, is that they will e...

Last week I wrote about the extremely short consultation period for aspects of implementing the Digital Economy Act. Time is running ou...

One of the recurrent themes here on Techdirt is the increasing lack of balance in copyright, which is now heavily weighted in favor of cr...

Last week, the British policeman Simon Harwood was acquitted of killing a man during the 2009 G20 protests in London -- a controversial v...

Net neutrality is one of those areas that most people are vaguely in favour of, without giving it much thought. Governments take advantag...

One of the defining characteristics of the digital world -- and one of the problems for copyright law, which was conceived in an analog ag...

Last month we wrote about a new copyright law in Japan whose punishments seemed so disproportionate it was hard to take it seriously. Fo...

They say that a lie is halfway around the world before the truth has got its boots on, and the same seems to be true about Internet policy...

Recently, Techdirt reported on the ruling by a German court on the issue of filtering -- whether Internet sites have a responsibility to...

As I and many others noted at the time, the Digital Economy Act was one of the most disgraceful abuses of the parliamentary process in re...

Openness is really beginning to sweep through the European Union at all levels. Yesterday we wrote about the European Commission's a...

I've written elsewhere about how open access - the idea that academic research paid for by the public should be freely available onl...

Yesterday, Techdirt reported on the UK government's plans to make publicly-funded scientific research freely available as open acces...

There is a natural tendency to concentrate on what is happening locally, and so most of the stories here on Open Enterprise are about wha...

One of the great divides in the digital world is between those who believe that people who share files online are selfish, thieving pirate...

Techdirt often writes about the benefits of openness and sharing. One area that is increasingly coming to the fore is open data -- for e...

As expected , Russia has passed a law that will allow Web sites to be blacklisted, ostensibly to "protect children". According...

A common feature of democracies is that new laws are scrutinized and debated by representatives of the people before they are passed -- th...

Music collection societies often figure in Techdirt thanks to their attempts to wring licensing payments from people on absurd grounds, li...

Net neutrality arguments are often couched in rather theoretical terms, and many people can't really see what all the fuss is about. ...

As Techdirt has noted , the main threat to artists is not piracy, but obscurity -- the fact that few know they are creating interesting s...

A few years back, Techdirt noted that India had 16,000 licensed drug manufacturers in the 1990s, and became a net exporter of pharmaceut...

The UK government's communications review is likely to have a big impact on the digital world. As part of that investigation, the De...