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21 December 2011
Three Strikes Approach Rejected By Irish Data Protection Commissioner, Gov't Seeks Censorship Plan Instead
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The contentious nature of the "three strikes" response to unauthorized sharing of copyright materials can be seen by the legal b...
19 December 2011
EU Council Quietly Adopts ACTA, By Hiding It In An Agriculture And Fisheries Meeting
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At the end of last week, the Council of the European Union – which is where national ministers from each EU country meet to adopt laws an...
Apple Abuses Patent System Again To Obstruct W3C Open Standard
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Apple has been garnering quite a reputation for itself as a patent bully, for example using patents around the world in an attempt to sto...
Former Tunisian Regime Goes Beyond Spying On Internet Traffic... To Rewriting Emails & More
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Most people instinctively appreciate the dangers of government surveillance. But at least it's possible to be on your guard when you ...
16 December 2011
People in Glasshouses (With Windows) Shouldn't Throw Stones
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It's no secret that Windows Phone is struggling desperately in the battle against the smartphone leaders, iPhone and Android. And de...
What Should Mozilla Do?
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There has been a flurry of excitement about Mozilla recently. Not, as you might hope, about the latest version of Firefox; one of the uni...
A Rational Way To Dispose Of Counterfeit Designer Clothes: Donate Them To The Homeless
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The narrative around counterfeit goods usually ends with their seizure. We rarely get to hear or see what happens to them afterwards unl...
15 December 2011
Harkening to Hargreaves: UK Copyright Consultation
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The road to copyright reform is a long one, full of false starts and diversions. Those with good memories may recall the Gowers Review fr...
13 December 2011
Open Data: Europe Starts to Get It
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As readers of this blog will have noticed, open data is particularly hot at the moment. Whether that will endure is another matter, but f...
EU's Advisor On Supporting Net Activists Previously Forced From German Government...By Net Activists
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The Vice President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe, Neelie Kroes, recently made quite a stir when...
12 December 2011
HADOPI Wants To Research File Downloads: Shouldn't It Have Done That First?
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One of the most important aspects of the UK's Hargreaves Report was that it called for copyright policy to be based on evidence. It a...
11 December 2011
Open Source, Open Data, Open Innovation
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A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference . This was the first time I'd visited Bolzano/Bozen; although...
09 December 2011
Spotting Counterfeit Chips Is Hard; Spotting Digital Piracy Is Even Harder
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One of the favorite techniques of those pushing for ever-more severe penalties for copyright infringement is to blur the distinction betwe...
08 December 2011
From Open Source to Open Research: Horizon 2020
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Last week I took part in a meeting at the European Parliament entitled “Horizon 2020: Investing in the common good”. Here's the backg...
Making AIDS Drugs Affordable With Prizes, Not Patents
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Of all the dysfunctional parts of the patent system, drug patents are arguably the worst, since the exorbitant prices that patent monopoli...
Who Owns The Data Collected About You From Devices Inside Your Body?
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People have started to wake up to the fact that companies like Google and Facebook hold huge quantities of data about their users. That r...
07 December 2011
Getting It: In A World Of Digital Abundance, Sell The Scarcities
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A recurrent refrain from the copyright industries is that you can't make money from digital goods if they are freely available online....
Open Source Total Cost of Ownership 2.0
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Back in 2006, I wrote a piece for LXer called " A Brief History of Microsoft FUD ". This ran through successive attempts by Micr...
06 December 2011
More Collateral Damage From SOPA: People With Print Disabilities And Human Rights Groups
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As people wake up to the full horror of what SOPA would do to the Internet and its users, an increasing number of organizations with very ...
Flood of EU Software Patents on the Way?
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The idea of bringing in a unitary EU patent system has been rolling around Brussels so long most people have assumed it will never happen....
Self-Regulation: Should Online Companies Police The Internet?
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For anyone in Belgium on Wednesday, here's an afternoon event open to all that might be of interest: " 'Self'-regulation: ...
03 December 2011
Royal Society Claims 1671 Copyright On Newton Letter (Copyright Law Born 29 Years Later)
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The Royal Society calls itself "a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and... the oldest scientific academy in con...
The Pirate Party Effect: German Greens Scramble To Draw Up Digital Policies To Hold On To Voters
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The founding of the Pirate Party in Sweden in 2006 was regarded by many as a joke. After all, the argument went, who would want to be as...
02 December 2011
Why We Don't Need To 'Think Of The Artists': They're Doing Fine
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Just as politicians routinely invite us to " think of the children " when they want to push through some new liberty-reducing la...
01 December 2011
More UK Open Data Moves - and Why That Makes Sense
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In striking contrast with its disappointing performance in terms of supporting open source, the UK government continues to take huge strid...
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