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There's an important vote in INTA today (25 April) on the transatlantic trade agreement (TAFTA/TTIP), and there are some crucial issu...

As you may have read , by an amazing coincidence, most of the UK's leading supermarkets have simultaneously announced that they will no...

Beyond the fact that you are using it to read these words, the Web has undeniably had a major impact on a large part of the world's p...

Update:  Maël Brunet has  pointed out  that the press release I linked to below is from 2011; what was actually  announced yesterday  was...

A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about a store that was trying to charge customers $5 for " just looking ", because it fel...

One of the most worrying aspects of ACTA -- which began life as a "simple" treaty about combatting counterfeit goods -- was how...

Earlier this week, the Linux Foundation made an  announcement  about the oddly-named OpenDaylight project: On Open Enterprise blog .

Last week I  wrote  a letter to the European Commission about the extraordinary failure  of the  IPRED  consultation process. I certainly...

Last week, we wrote about an organization that was  unhappy  that a Wikipedia article no longer existed. Now we have the opposite problem...

As I  wrote  last week, all the main browsers are jockeying for position in the world of mobile, which is generally recognised as the key...

Techdirt has been following the fascinating saga of Iceland's  crowdsourced constitution  for nearly two years. Back in October 2012,...

Even if you don't remember the birth of Mozilla  15 years ago , you are certainly benefitting from its consequences. For, back then, ...

As we've noted before, Amazon is beginning to wield  considerable power  over the entire publishing chain. The past teaches us that a...

Following my  post  yesterday about the extraordinary failure of the  IPRED  consultation process, I enclose below my letter sent to the ...

After weathering earlier  attacks  on its reliability, Wikipedia is now an essential feature of our online and cultural landscapes. Indee...

Back in October last year, in the context of India showing itself increasingly sceptical about  pharma patents  that drive up drug prices...

Last week I made a couple of  urgent pleas  to readers to complete the major EU  IPRED  consultation, which was being conducted on the We...

Last year, Techdirt wrote about an interesting article suggesting that we should  welcome  "cyberwar" since it would be so much...

As Mike noted a couple of days ago, international trade agreements often have the effect of constraining the power of national legislat...

Yesterday I mentioned the important consultation on IPRED, how it was closing soon, and what a good idea it would be if you applied to ...

Although the European Union finally approved the continent-wide Unitary Patent in December 2012, after decades of discussions, the story...

Today is Document Freedom Day : It is a day for celebrating and raising awareness of Open Standards and formats which takes place on ...

IPRED is not that well known, even among the Net-savvy. And yet it's one of the most important EU directives that affects the onlin...

Hackers and hacking have been much in the news recently - for all the wrong reasons, unfortunately. The most dramatic case, perhaps, was...

Techdirt has been following the rapid rise and current problems of the various Pirate Parties in Europe for some time. Both their su...