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24 November 2011
Sarkozy Worried About The Internet 'Stealing Audience Share' From 'Regulated' TV Services
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Earlier this week Techdirt reported on the surprisingly forthright statements of Neelie Kroes concerning the failure of the copyright syst...
23 November 2011
New EU Parliamentary Forum To Push For Even More Draconian Copyright Laws And Enforcement
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Last year, Techdirt reported on the approval by the European Parliament of the Gallo Report, which calls for harsher enforcement of int...
A Small Victory For Patent Common Sense: Earth Closet Orders Are No More
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Sometimes you just have to shake your head over patent law. Here's a practice from the UK that has been going on since 1876, and invo...
22 November 2011
Why The Supreme Court's 'Grokster' Decision Led To More, Not Less, P2P Filesharing
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In the 2005 "Grokster" decision, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that file sharing networks could be held liable for copyr...
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UK Publishers Moan About Content Mining's Possible Problems; Dismiss Other Countries' Actual Experience
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One of the recommendations made by the Hargreaves Review in the UK was that a text- and data-mining exception to copyright should be cre...
21 November 2011
EU Commissioner Kroes: Copyright Is 'A Tool To Punish And Withhold'; New Business Models, Not More Enforcement Needed
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Neelie Kroes is that rare thing: a politician who actually seems to understand digital technologies. Before she became the European Comm...
Of Open Data Startups and Open Businesses
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Last week I was invited to talk at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference which took place in northern Italy, in the city of Bolzano (d...
19 November 2011
E-Publishing The Chinese Way: Very Fast And Very Cheap
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Increasingly, publishers are joining the music and film industries in bemoaning the effects of piracy on the sales of digital products – a...
Learning From Beethoven: Speeding Up The Exchange Of Scientific Knowledge
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There is a general belief that science proceeds by smooth cycles of discovery and sharing – that scientists formulate theories, investigat...
16 November 2011
Help Fight Against Extrajudicial Suppression of UK Domain Names
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With so many bad things happening in the digital world at the moment- ACTA, TPP, Digital Economy Act, HADOPI, La Ley Sinde etc. - there ...
14 November 2011
Why Barnes & Noble is an Open Source Superstar
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As I've noted many times, one of the biggest threats hanging over open source is patents, because of the way trivial but indispensable...
Want To See Peak Copyright? Here's What To Do
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It's a curious fact that the term of copyright only ever gets longer. Since copyright is a government-backed monopoly, and monopolies...
12 November 2011
Misleading Metaphors That Drive The War On Online Sharing
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Certain terms crop up time and again in the arguments around copyright infringement and file sharing. Words like "theft" and &q...
11 November 2011
How To Become A Scientific Author In Poland: Delete Part Of Someone Else's Article You Think Is Wrong
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Copyrightgirl pointed us to a bizarre judgement from the Polish Supreme Court last year, which found that you can become co-author of a s...
10 November 2011
Is Google Losing it?
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Google matters for open source. First and foremost, it is an example of a multi-billion dollar global company that simply would not be po...
09 November 2011
Which Causes More Harm: Copyright Or Patents?
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One of the recurrent themes on Techdirt is the harm caused by intellectual monopolies – copyright and patents – to the economy in particu...
Mozilla's Brendan Eich on the Birth of Firefox
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A couple of weeks ago I posted the first part of an interview with Brendan Eich, who is Mozilla's CTO. That covered the early years ...
Russian Internet Content Monitoring System To Go Live In December
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Back in April of this year, the Russian government put out a tender : Last week, Roskomnadzor, Russian Federal Service for Telecoms Supe...
07 November 2011
Free As In Freedom: But Whose Freedom?
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It would be hard to overstate the contribution of Richard Stallman to the digital world. The founding of the GNU project and the creatio...
05 November 2011
Phorm Still Looking For A Large-Scale Deployment, Still Finding Investors
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As a search through the Techdirt archives shows, Phorm's behavioral advertising service based on watching your Web activity was bese...
03 November 2011
Academic Publishing Profits Enough To Fund Open Access To Every Research Article In Every Field
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The arguments against open access have moved on from the initial "it'll never work" to the "maybe it'll work, but...
India Wants UN Body To Run The Internet: Would That Be Such A Bad Thing?
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The Internet is under attack – but not, as politicians would have us believe, from hordes of cyber criminals , but from the politicians th...
02 November 2011
Spanish Judge Gets It: Pirated Copies Not Necessarily Lost Sales, May Boost Purchases Later
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One of the favorite assumptions of industries based around copyright used to be that every pirated copy is a lost sale. More recently, th...
01 November 2011
Germany To Put Special Monitoring Software On School Computers To Search For Infringement
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Just under a month ago, the "Chaos Computer Club" (CCC), which styles itself as "the largest European hacker club", had ...
What Exactly Makes A Pop-Up Mall A Pop-Up Mall? On Second Thought, Who Cares?
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One of the pernicious effects of once-obscure legal issues surrounding copyright and patents seeping into everyday life is the belief tha...
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