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An increasingly problematic aspect of free trade agreements (FTAs) is the inclusion of investor-state provisions that essentially allow ...

Just over a year ago, I reported on a remarkable speech by the UK Education Secretary Michael Gove that contained the following words: ...

A couple of months ago, an MEP asked the European Commission an interesting question : On Open Enterprise blog .

Techdirt has been reporting on a steady stream of bad tech ideas coming out of Russia, including content monitoring , banning children f...

As Techdirt reported a few months back, the Supreme Court Justices seem rightly concerned about the " parade of horribles " -- ...

As many know, copyright had its origins in censorship and control . But over the last few hundred years, that fact has been obscured by ...

Back in 2011, I noted that one of the most significant achievements of the Hargreaves report was its shockingly revolutionary suggesti...

Linux has a problem: it's running out of platforms to conquer. It's already the top operating system for smartphones and supercom...

It would be something of understatement to say that the spiralling cost of healthcare has become a highly-charged political issue in the ...

As Techdirt reported last year, some copyright maximalists in the UK seem to be against the whole idea of basing policy on evidence. Las...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement began as a cosy treaty between just three nations: Chile, New Zealand and Singapore . But o...

Back in March last year, the Indian government announced that it was granting its first compulsory license , for the anti-cancer drug mar...

As regular readers of Computerworld UK know, the UK government has repeatedly said that it wishes to move on from the past patterns of p...

Five years ago, I wrote an article about the relatively new class of netbook computers. I suggested the ultra-low price machines runnin...

Earlier this week we wrote about a strange move by Google: apparently agreeing to pay the French telecoms company Orange extra to deliver...

Copyright is sometimes described as a bargain between two parties: creators and their public. In return for receiving a government-backe...

Presumably as part of the overall agreement for Russia to be allowed to join the WTO , the Ministry of Culture there has published a dra...

Licenses lie at the heart of open source -- and many other kinds of "open" too. That's because they are used to define the...

As a recent post noted, net neutrality is under threat in France, with ISPs like Free asking Google to pay extra for delivery of its tr...

Krita is a fine sketching and painting program, but few would claim that it is one of the big names in the open source world, such as F...

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, 2013 is already shaping up to be a year in which data protection is a key battleground. That...

You would have thought by now that people would understand that DRM is not only a bad idea, but totally unnecessary: Apple dropped DRM fr...

The German Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe has acknowledged that an Internet connection is indispensable for life in the modern worl...

Back in April last year, we wrote about Colombia's own SOPA, the " Ley Lleras 2 " copyright bill (it's version 2, becau...

As Techdirt has reported over the last ten days, the death of Aaron Swartz has provoked an outpouring of grief from friends and colleague...