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Readers with long memories may recall in the dim and distant past that at one time "Get the Facts" was a favourite war-cry of Mic...

In my post yesterday about Cisco making the code for its H264 codec available, I noted that the really important news was that Mozilla w...

You know that open source has won when everybody wants to wrap themselves in a little bit of openness in order to enjoy the glow. That...

Revelations about the staggering levels of online surveillance that are now routine in this country have been met with a stunning silence...

I first wrote about the importance of open clinical trials two years ago. More recently, I urged people to contact their MEP s for a cruc...

Software patents have figured quite frequently on this blog, usually in terms of their deep problems, especially for free software. Alth...

Last week I explored at some length the curious reasons that Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave for supporting the proposal to add hooks for DRM in...

My last two posts about the Linux Foundation have been about how it is broadening its scope to embrace open projects well beyond the Linu...

As I noted in my last TTIP update , things are beginning to get moving again on this front. One reflection of the growing interesting in...

A couple of week ago, I discussed the awful idea of adding DRM to the official HTML5 standard, and where that would lead us. More recent...

It's been fairly quiet on the TAFTA /TTIP front recently. That's largely because Europe shuts down for its summer hols during A...

A couple of months ago, we reported on some interesting research into the reality of US trade agreements, in contrast to the rosy pictu...

One of the ironies of European outrage over the global surveillance conducted by the NSA and GCHQ is that in the EU, communications metad...

Back in January, we reported on a truly stupid idea : making DRM an official aspect of HTML5. Things then went quiet, until a couple of...

Techdirt has been reporting for a while the efforts of the Russian government to bring the Internet there under control . It now seems ...

Here's a hugely important story that brings together three major threads. First, the continuing wrangling over the form that Interne...

Plagiarism is a complex and emotive issue, as previous Techdirt posts on the subject have shown . Perhaps because of that complexity, ...

We've written several posts about a growing awareness of the dangers of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), which lets forei...

A few months back, we wrote about the University of California's plan to lock up even more knowledge in the form of patents, in the...

One of the pioneers of open access is Michael Eisen, who helped found what has become the leading open access publisher , Public Library ...

Back in April, we noted that the Canadian government has been trying to muzzle various groups in the country, including librarians and ...

We've noted before attempts to inflate the importance of copyright, patents and trademarks by including a bunch of other sectors that...

Like many countries, Peru has been working on a law to deal with various kinds of crimes that involve computers and the Internet in some...

Last week we wrote about China's worrying new censorship approach, which threatens up to three years in prison for those spreading...

A month ago, we wrote about Kim Dotcom's plans to form his own political party in New Zealand. But that's not the only way that...