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Last month I predicted that one of the main tropes that would be used in the TAFTA/TTIP negotiations would by that of "science-based...

The battle to bring GM food to Europe has been fiercely fought for years.  Most assumed it would be continue to rage for many more. Which m...

A few weeks back, we wrote about the Indian Supreme Court's rejection of Novartis's attempt to use " evergreening " to...

The photographers are freaking out again. After last year's excitement with Instagram's changes to its terms of service, now i...

Given the massive impact that new-style trade agreements like TPP and TAFTA/TTIP are likely to have on the lives of hundreds of millio...

We last wrote about the Russian social network site VKontakte , often called "The Facebook of Russia," a year ago. Since then,...

As a post on the French site Numerama reminds us ( original in French ), the department responsible for implementing the three-strikes p...

Techdirt has written about the Special 301 report many times, but that's not the only US government publication putting other countr...

Last month, Techdirt wrote about the requirement for librarians employed by the Canadian government to self-censor their opinions, even...

Since the UK government published the draft version of its Communications Data Bill -- better known as the "snooper's charter...

Despite increasing calls for the imminent TAFTA/TTIP trade negotiations to be conducted as openly as possible, it seems likely that, a...

Techdirt has been covering the free trade agreement being negotiated between India and the EU for a while now -- that is, as well as any...

Traditionally, there has been a blithe assumption that more innovation occurs when patents are granted than when they are not. But as T...

Techdirt has written a few times about Turkey's difficult relationship with new technology. Unfortunately, it looks like that now...

The last time Techdirt wrote about " pay for delay " deals, whereby a big pharma company essentially buys off manufacturers o...

The whole point about adopting Creative Commons licenses is to make it easier for people to share and use works released under them. S...

Last year we wrote about EMI suing the Irish government for having the temerity not to pass a SOPA-Like censorship law. That truly ex...

Most companies have a natural tendency to keep details of their activities secret -- the fear being that competitors might be able to e...

As we've noted before, the information captured by Google's Street View has been put to some surprising uses, and the Boston Glo...

One of the many problems with the secretive nature of trade agreements is that it insulates negotiators from the real-world consequences...

As regular readers of this column know, there's still a battle going on over whether standards should be FRAND or restrict...

Earlier this month I wrote a couple of posts about a letter I sent off to the European Commission concerning my appalling experience wit...

Sorry to trouble you again this week, but there's an important vote in INTA today (25 April) on the transatlantic trade agreement (TA...

It seems that the UK government will be deciding what to do about the Snooper's Charter this week. It is already under huge pressur...

Back in February, I noted that the UK' s investigation into making clinical trial data freely available was somewhat subsidiary to th...