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24 October 2011
Please Respond to the PDC Consultation (and PDQ)
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Last month I wrote about the UK government's "Making Open Data Real" consultation. That's actually just the first par...
21 October 2011
Hint: If You Commit A Crime, Do Not Google Every Aspect Of It Afterwards
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Techdirt has reported on a number people accused of murder googling for things like " neck snap break " or " how to commit m...
20 October 2011
Of Open Source, Microsoft, India and Paraguay
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One of the recurrent recent themes of IT in the UK has been how moves to open source by local and central government have been stymied by ...
London 2012 Olympics Go For Gold in the Extreme 'Ambush Marketing' Law Event: 'Guilty Until Proven Innocent' – And No Streaking Allowed
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The Olympic Games are not just about sporting success, but also legal excess – in particular, taking laws to extremes in order to "pr...
18 October 2011
Out ACTA-ing ACTA: All TPP Negotiating Documents To Be Kept Secret Until Four Years After Ratification
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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has now been signed by several nations – even if its actual status is by no means clear. ...
'British Cinema's Golden Age Is Now': So Where's The 'Serious Problem' Of Copyright Infringement?
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Last week we learned the UK government has precisely no evidence to support its plans for stricter copyright enforcement, which include ...
17 October 2011
Office Suites: LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org?
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The office suite has occupied a very strange position in the world of open source. As a key software tool used by practically everyone on...
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Fighting Back Against Public Domain Erosion By Growing The Commons
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There have been a number of stories on Techdirt recently about governments diminishing the public domain - not just by extending copyrigh...
13 October 2011
Broadcasters Ask Brazilian Government To Protect Them From Interesting Foreign Content On The Web
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Last week Techdirt wrote about a draft of a civil rights-based framework for the Internet that is being considered by lawmakers in Brazil...
Does Amazon Want to Monopolize The Entire Publishing Chain?
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The launch of Amazon's Kindle Fire at a price well below expectations has naturally focused people's attention on the e-book sid...
12 October 2011
Facebook Says Some of Your Personal Data Is Its 'Trade Secrets or Intellectual Property'
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A few weeks back, Techdirt posted a story about a European campaign group called "Europe vs. Facebook" , which is trying to find...
What Happens When The Company Backing Up Your Passwords In The Event of Your Death Itself Dies?
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The unprecedented public outpouring of grief in the technical community at the death of Steve Jobs seems to go well beyond the fact that ...
Microsoft's Subtle Knife Through the Heart of EU Software Industry
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One of the striking changes at Microsoft over the last twenty years is how savvy it has become in terms of lobbying and influencing polit...
WIPO Article About Manga Piracy Describes Publishers' Failure To Meet Demand In Graphic Detail
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Somehow you rather expect the head of the WIPO to come out with a statement on the potential benefits of patenting the World Wide Web. Bu...
11 October 2011
Will Nginx Be to Apache What Chrome is to Firefox?
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The Netcraft Web Server Survey , which appears each month, is usually viewed as offering the spectacle of a two-player fight between the ...
10 October 2011
EU Greens Come On Board Pirates' Copyright Agenda
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A couple of weeks ago, I was talking about the striking success of the Pirate Party in the German local elections. Since then, an opinion...
07 October 2011
Microsoft's $844 Million Software Giveaway To Nonprofits: Pure Charity Or Cheap Marketing?
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Microsoft has just released its 2011 Annual Financial Report . But alongside that document's dry facts about its $69.9 billion turnove...
05 October 2011
Access To Italian Wikipedia Blocked In Protest Of Wiretapping Bill In Italy
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If you go to the Italian version of Wikipedia , you will not find a gateway to 847,000 articles in that language, but (at the time of writi...
New UK Banknote Celebrates James Watt, Patent Bully and Monopolist
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As do many nations, England likes to put images of its great and good on banknotes. In a somewhat quixotic attempt to stem the decline of ...
04 October 2011
Brazil Drafts An 'Anti-ACTA': A Civil Rights-Based Framework For The Internet
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One of the striking features of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is that it is mainly being signed by Western/“developed” countries...
German Politician Who Wanted Two-Strike Copyright Law Should Disconnect Himself After Multiple Infringements Found
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One of the most noticeable trends in copyright law around the world is the way countries tend to adopt similar approaches. So after the &...
03 October 2011
Well, I Do Declare: Washington and Open Government Declarations
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There seems to be something in the air (maybe it's the crazy weather): everyone is making “declarations”. On Open Enterprise blog .
Microsoft-Samsung Licensing Deal Tells Us Nothing About The Facts, Just About The FUD
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As Bessen and Meurer's book "Patent Failure" points out, one of the biggest problems with software patents is their lack o...
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01 October 2011
Registry of Interests
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This is a list of my main sources of income, and of any other work-related benefits, as of 1 October 2011. I will update thi...
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Dishing the Dirt on Me and Techdirt
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I'm sure all my readers know about Techdirt : Started in 1997 by Floor64 founder Mike Masnick and then growing into a group blog...
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