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It seems a long while ago now, but June was a pretty hectic month in this neck of the woods, since it saw the final push to get ACTA reject...

Although the following is a little outside the mainstream of Open Enterprise, it does have a very clear moral with direct relevance to th...

As I noted recently, net neutrality is back in the spotlight, so I thought it would be useful - and maybe entertaining - to look at an an...

As the old joke goes, standards are wonderful things, that's why we have so many of them. But who would have thought that ETSI, the ...

Recently we wrote about how copyright rules designed for an analog age were causing problems when transposed without modification to the ...

At the end of last year, I wrote about the great service Barnes & Noble had performed by drawing back the curtain on one of Microsoft...

When the UK Hargreaves Review of intellectual monopolies in the digital age came out last year, Techdirt noted that one of its innovation...

I have been writing about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, since its birth in 1998 (see the ICANN entry on...

Last year Techdirt wrote about the almost unbelievable Meltwater decision in the UK, where the courts said that viewing a Web page withou...

I've written a couple of articles recently about Ofcom's consultation on the implementation of the Digital Economy Act. That c...

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...