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Last year, I interviewed the head of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin, about his own career, and about his organisation. That intervie...

Techdirt has been writing about Australia's plans to join the online censorship club for almost three years. Now, in a surprise mov...

Last week's big announcement by the UK government was principally about procurement, detailing the new rules that will apply when g...

In the wake of the news that Android sales now represent around 75% of the global smartphone market during the most recent quarter, ther...

A little while back, Techdirt wrote about a rather brave French company that tried to trademark the Anonymous logo. Now Der Spiegel is r...

The laws governing intellectual monopolies in the UK are in a state of flux at the moment. After the previous government in its dying ho...

One of the main forces driving the move to open access is the idea that if the public has already paid for research through taxation or ...

In a huge win for open standards, open source and the public, the long-awaited UK government definition of open standards has come down ...

Although crowdsourcing is all the rage at the moment, there has to be a worry that this is just the latest fad in the world of technology...

Techdirt has been a great believer in connecting with fans and giving them a reason to buy for many years , but it's always interesti...

I've been noting "hopeful" moves towards the wider use of open source by the UK government for so long that I daren't d...

One of the premises of this blog is that the success and methodology of open source are not one-offs, but part of a larger move towards o...

There is a natural tendency to accentuate the negative when it comes to drones -- concentrating on how these "spies the sky" re...

As you may have gathered, I'm a big fan of consultations: if they are asking us what we think, we really ought not pass up the chance...

Whatever your views on the value of Wikileaks, one of its useful side-effects has been the appearance of other sites that have tried to ...

Techdirt has written before about the aggressive enforcement habits of the Tolkien estate, once in connection with the name " Tolkien...

Yesterday I wrote about an extraordinarily clueless document from an arm of the UN that seemed to have no real understanding of what th...

Back in May, Techdirt pointed to a presentation from Mike Palmedo listing a wide range of research that demonstrates the lack of a conn...

The demonization of file sharing by copyright maximalists blinds many companies to the fact that it is marketing in its purest form. Tha...

Whether or not you believe that CCTV surveillance makes the world a safer place, there's a big problem with deploying it more widely:...

It's a cliché that we live in a world increasingly awash with digital data. Even though it all comes down to 1s and 0s, not all data...

As you may recall , terrorism was one of the primary justifications for bringing in the disproportionate Draft Communications Data Bill: ...

Recently, Tim noted that, for some strange reason, politicians don't like having the same level of surveillance applied to them as ...

One of the most important pieces of research to emerge last year was " Media Piracy in Emerging Economies ". A central theme w...

In the online world, it's hard to remember a time before Amazon. Today, it dominates the ecommerce space, and is rapidly becoming eq...