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As I've noted before, the UK government is now arguably the leader when it comes to open data. Of course, that's not really the poin...

There's a column doing the rounds at the moment that is generating some interest. It comes from the King of the Patent Trolls, Nathan ...

Here's an interesting situation at the online academic repository JSTOR: Last fall and winter, JSTOR experienced a significant misuse of...

Here's an interesting situation at the online academic repository JSTOR: Last fall and winter, JSTOR experienced a significant misuse of...

Android is under serious threat. Not so much commercially, where it continues to trounce its rivals and take an ever-larger market share aro...

Well, it seems to be Open Data week here on Computerworld UK. After my report on the Open Knowledge Conference in Berlin, one of whose princ...

Yesterday I mentioned Nigel Shadbolt, who has played a leading role in the opening up of government data in the UK. By chance, I've just...

The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) was launched just over seven years ago: May 24th 2004: The Open Knowledge Foundation was launched today ...

HTML began life as a clever hack of a pre-existing approach. As Tim Berners-Lee explains in his book, “Weaving the Web”: Since I knew it wou...

For some reason, I seem to be giving talks all over the place this month. I've already written about the one that I presented at the Eur...

I've noted before that we are witnessing a classic patent thicket in the realm of smartphones, with everyone and his or her dog suing ev...

One of the most fascinating aspects of open source is how its key ideas are being applied elsewhere. Obvious examples include open content -...

Xiph.org has an interesting name and the following forthright self-description: Xiph.Org is a collection of open source, multimedia-related ...

The key hack that made free software possible was a legal one: using copyright to keep software free. It did that by demanding a quid pro qu...

There's considerable excitement about an announcement from the British Library and Google detailing a wonderful gift to the world: The ...

You wouldn't expect much else from a meeting organised by WIPO, but this is pretty rich even for them: Copyright is necessary to allow ...

Last week I wrote about a talk I gave with the title “Innovation inducement prizes as a possible mechanism to unlock the benefits of open in...

If you want a vision of the world of global repression and bullying that copyright maximalists are striving to create, try this: A Sheffield...

I've written plenty about why software patents should be resisted where they don't exist, and abolished where they do. But if I want...

It's easy to take things for granted – to assume that the world will always be as it is. And then sometimes you receive a mild jolt: som...

In a previous column, I mentioned that I was invited to talk at a meeting at the European Parliament about innovation prizes last week. That...

Since Apple has replaced Microsoft as the leading patent-wielding cheerleader for closed-source computing, it will come as no surprise that ...

Last week I was in Brussels, talking at the European Parliament - not, I hasten to add, talking to the Parliament. This was a more intimate ...

Here's some good news : You can download for free the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. They were recorded by Dr. James Kib...

Now that the dust has settled a little on the Hargreaves report, I thought it might be worth revisiting it, but looking at it from a slightl...