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Against a background of the leaks about NSA spying, transparency -- or lack of it -- is a hot topic at the moment. But there are situat...

Techdirt has been reporting for some time on the growing number of moves towards making academic work freely available to the public -- f...

Some stories, you just couldn't make up. Like this one, reported on the UK site Reprieve, about a failed attempt to pass some reading...

As Techdirt has reported, the attempts to extradite Kim Dotcom from New Zealand to the US have turned into one of the most catastrophical...

As more and more countries start introducing Web blocks, some people console themselves with the "at least there's always Tor...

A post on TorrentFreak updates us on the continuing saga of the file-hosting site RapidShare . The Supreme Court in Germany has apparent...

Over the years Techdirt has run a number of stories that make it abundantly clear that you don't own those ebooks you paid for. B...

When Techdirt wrote recently about yet another secure email provider opting to close down its service rather than acquiesce in some fut...

Two years ago, Techdirt reported on a very troubling ruling in the UK courts that BT had to block access to the Usenet service provider...

Techdirt has published a number of posts that explore the issue of whether art organizations can stop people sharing images of works in ...

Prefixing concepts with the epithet "open" has become something of a fashion over the last decade. Beginning with open source,...

Just last week we heard how Russia has extended its "think of the children" law to include copyright infringement. That was ...

You may remember a rather wonderful court case from 2012 that pitted copyright lawyers against patent lawyers over the issue of whether ...

Techdirt has been monitoring for a while the inexorable rise of open access in the academic world. But even against a background of major...

The use of Web blocks -- usually " for the children " -- is becoming depressingly common these days. So much so, that many ...

A couple of months back, Techdirt wrote about Australia's proposals to shift from the current fair dealing approach to fair use as p...

Recently we noted that " overclassification " of sensitive material actually leads to more secrets being revealed. The New Yo...

Techdirt has noted the increasing demonization of hackers (not to be confused with crackers that break into systems for criminal purposes...

One of the central problems of laws that deal with copyright is that they are essentially products of a time when the distinction betwee...

Around the world, we have been watching the gradual taming of social media, especially in countries where governments keep mainstream m...

Last week we wrote about how the Russian equivalent of SOPA had been amended in order to ban swearing online. Although that was worth ...

One of the heartening recent developments in the world of digital copyright is that we have moved on from manifestly biased surveys about...

One of the myths perpetuated by governments taking part in major international treaty negotiations like ACTA, TPP and TAFTA/TTIP is that ...

As a recent DailyDirt noted, opinions on the safety of genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ) are sharply divided. But that heated arg...

Techdirt has run a number of posts about David Cameron's dangerous plans to apply default online censorship and make porn opt-in in t...