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Sites that share unauthorized copies of various kinds of digital files are hardly news, and neither are attempts to shut them down. But ...

One of the more extraordinary transformations in the last couple of decades has been copyright's evolution from a rather dry and dust...

It's fairly widely accepted that the key digital device in the future will be the mobile phone, not the desktop computer that has had...

As I mentioned a few months back, the ITU' s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) starts today in Dubai. H...

Techdirt has run a number of articles about the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications ( WCIT ) currently taking ...

Last week Techdirt wrote about the perverse attitude of the UK recording industry, which seems obsessed with "stamping out piracy...

Anyone who has been reading this blog for a while will be well aware of some of the key problems with copyright in the Internet age. For...

Techdirt has written before about the self-destructive vindictiveness of the copyright industries, which would rather die in a futile at...

A couple of months ago, Ben Zevenbergen explained how the Dutch Supreme Court was finding it difficult to reconcile different aspects o...

Angela Merkel may be Germany's Chancellor, and therefore a busy woman, but since she trained as a chemist , you might expect her to ha...

For a while, Techdirt has been tracking Iran's continuing efforts to throttle its citizens' access to troublesome materials onlin...

A natural response to the increasingly harsh enforcement of laws against unauthorized sharing of copyright files is to move to encrypted ...

Techdirt wrote about how the UK's Twitter Joke conviction dragged its slow way through the various appeals before finally being resol...

A couple of weeks ago, we worried that Brazil's innovative "Marco Civil", a civil-rights based framework for the Internet, ...

As I noted at the time, perhaps the most revolutionary aspect of the Hargreaves Review of copyright in the digital age was simply the i...

The evolution of the V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes mask from a clever element in a comic book and film to a meme and a global symbol of onl...

Recently I've written about several moves towards mandating openness in various ways - in the UK, Spain and Portugal. That's al...

One of the biggest problems with the current approach to dealing with alleged copyright infringement is the totally disproportionate natu...

A couple of weeks ago, I was reviewing Spain's move to open standards. The good news is that elsewhere on the Iberian peninsular, ...

It seems extraordinary that in the area of copyright it is only recently that people have started to consider the evidence before formul...

Yesterday I was writing about open access and open data in the context of the EU' s Horizon 2020 initiative. Closer to home, I came...

In retrospect, it is now clear that the pivotal moment in the campaign against ACTA was last January, when thousands of people took to t...

At the end of last year, I wrote about the important Horizon 2020 initiative. Here's how it describes itself : On Open Enterprise blo...

The Stuxnet worm that attacked an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility a couple of years ago was exceptional from several viewpoints . It...

Neelie Kroes has emerged as perhaps the most Net-savvy politician in the European Commission, with her repeated calls for a new approach ...