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Back in June, Mike wrote about the important Myriad Genetics judgment from the Supreme Court, which said that naturally-occuring genetic...

We noted last week that Japan was bringing in severe new punishments designed to discourage whistleblowing. That might suggest that fol...

Earlier this year we wrote about how AbbVie, the pharma company spun out of Abbott Laboratories, had gone to court to stop the European...

It's always heartening to come across new ideas for ways to make creations more widely available to the public while allowing artist...

One of the many worrying aspects of the Snowden saga is an attempt in the US to reframe whistleblowing as treason, and to make it harder...

Techdirt has been reporting for a while on India's growing success in providing its population with access to low-cost generic drug...

Edward Snowden's leaks show that the NSA and GCHQ have been systematically subverting key technologies that underlie the Internet. ...

Last week we wrote about the rising threat of corporate sovereignty , known more obscurely as "investor-state dispute settlement...

In my previous TTIP update , I reported on an extremely important leak about the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP), which is the...

I've always been a big fan of Mozilla's email client, Thunderbird, even when it was unfashionable to admit it. Because, for the ...

(The previous two parts of this essay appeared earlier.) Or maybe not. There is a rough consensus among cryptography experts that the theor...

(The first part of this three-part essay appeared yesterday.) The gradual but relentless shift from piecemeal, small-scale analogue eaves...

Netzpolitik.org is the leading site covering digital rights in German. It played a key role in helping to stop ACTA last year, and recently...

A few weeks back, I wrote about the troubling prospect of DRM being baked into HTML5. At the centre of a related piece was a post by Brend...

Today's update is a little odd, since it's not actually about TAFTA /TTIP, at least not directly. Although the second round is t...

One of the key issues during the ACTA negotiations was transparency - or rather the lack of it. Despite a few...

You may recall back in 2011, there was an extraordinary bidding war for the patents of Nortel Networks: On Open Enterprise blog.

As you may recall, back in September the European Commission finally came out with its proposals for net neutrality, part of its larger...

Remember all those years ago, when people laughed at the first Android phones (which were, to tell the truth, pretty clunky, but still......

Bitcoin shares with drones the unhappy distinction of being the subject of almost exclusively negative reports. Just as drones are usuall...

After a five-year battle by Access Info Europe , Europe's highest court has made an important ruling that will help boost transparency...

VKontakte is not only the largest social networking site in Russia, but is also one of the biggest unauthorized repositories of copyright...

There aren't many upsides to Snowden's revelations that NSA is essentially spying on the entire Internet, all the time, but if on...

One of the difficulties of making people aware of the huge impact that investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses in TPP and TAFT...

The idea that Wikipedia is dying has become one of the Internet's recurrent stories. Because something used by so many people eve...