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17 February 2012
UK Publishers Pretend To Embrace Copyright Reform... In Order To Kill Copyright Reform
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One of the bolder ideas in the UK's Hargreaves report was the suggestion that a Digital Copyright Exchange should be set up. The id...
Head of Mozilla Says ACTA Is 'A Bad Way To Develop Internet Policy'
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One telling sign of the widespread concern about SOPA/PIPA was that the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, which oversees the open source Fire...
ACTA Update VI
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Yesterday, a disturbing story appeared on the German taz.de site: EU MPs have received thousands of emails from ACTA opponents. But no ...
The World Of Open Textbooks Just Became A Little More Crowded -- And A Little More Open
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Open e-textbooks are hardly new: Techdirt has been reporting on the pioneer in this market, Flat World Knowledge , for several years now. ...
Dutch Government: Make European Copyright Exceptions More Flexible
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Well, here's a turn-up for the books. At a time when the European Commission is insisting that the copyright ratchet should be tighte...
Debunking The EU Commission's 'Myths About ACTA'
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It's a sign of the European Commission's increasing desperation over ACTA that it has been forced to send out a document entitled...
13 February 2012
ACTA Update V
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The European Commission's defence of ACTA has essentially two prongs. The first is that "ACTA changes nothing for Europeans&quo...
'The Economist' And 'Financial Times' Already Writing Off ACTA As Dead
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In the last few days, we've seen an extraordinary wave of announcements by governments in Europe, particularly its eastern part, that...
Do The Differences Between Software Piracy And Media Piracy Matter?
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Danah Boyd (or danah boyd as she prefers to be called) is widely recognized as an authority on privacy, identity and social networks. A ...
09 February 2012
ACTA Update IV
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This is a continuation of my previous post examining the European Commission's attempt to dispel what it calls ten "myths" a...
08 February 2012
Publishing 2.0: Content Is Marketing, Profits Come From The Packaging
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Publishers find themselves confronted by a difficult dilemma at the moment. On the one hand, they might want e-books to succeed, because ...
ACTA Update III
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It's a sign of the European Commission's increasing desperation over ACTA that it has been forced to send out a document entitled &...
USPTO Says Copies Of Academic Articles Submitted As Prior Art Are Covered By Fair Use
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With all the heat that publishers are starting to feel from the academic community, you might have thought that they'd avoid upsetti...
We Don't Have A 'Wild West' Internet Now, But We Will If SOPA Or Similar Is Passed
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Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, has the sad distinction of being in the vanguard when it comes to really bad ideas concerning th...
07 February 2012
What The Curebit Saga Teaches Us About Copyright, Plagiarism And Reputation
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The startup Curebit brought something of a firestorm down on its head recently. Here's how VentureBeat broke the story : On Techdirt .
04 February 2012
Is The US Meddling In Polish ACTA Voting?
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With the immediate threat from SOPA/PIPA on hold, people have started to turn their attention to the long-running saga of ACTA. While it w...
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ACTA Update II
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Although ACTA is billed as a global treaty, there are only two participants that really matter: the US and the European Union. If either...
If Politicians Pushing SOPA/PIPA Want To Create Jobs, They Should Support The Internet -- And Stop Treating Copyright Companies As Special
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A key element of the political rhetoric around SOPA/PIPA was the idea that it was about jobs , and that jobs are so critical in the curren...
Why Piracy Is Indispensable For The Survival Of Our Culture
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Last Year Techdirt wrote about the case of the huge collection of historic jazz recordings that had been acquired by the US National Jaz...
02 February 2012
Estonia Next In Line To Receive US 'Encouragement' To Adopt Harsher Anti-Piracy Laws
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Numerous Wikileaks cables have highlighted the pressure that the US has brought to bear on several foreign governments behind closed doors...
ACTA Update I
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Anyone who follows me on Twitter or identi.ca , or on Google+ will have noticed something of a crescendo of posts about the Anti-Counte...
iPhone Data Debunks Recording Industry's Report On How French Three Strikes Law Increased Sales
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The annual Digital Music Report ( pdf ) of the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is a curiously conflicted pr...
The End Of The Global Internet? Google's Blogger Starts Using Country-Specific Domains To Permit Local Censorship
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Twitter has taken quite a lot of heat for putting in place the capability to block tweets on a geographical basis. This begins to look ...
Another Reason We Need Open Government Data: To Avoid Information Asymmetries
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Can the future aggregate actions of people be predicted from relevant sets of data that describe them? That, of course, is what Isaac As...
Will Academics' Boycott Of Elsevier Be The Tipping Point For Open Access -- Or Another Embarrassing Flop?
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It's now widely recognized that the extreme demands of SOPA/PIPA catalyzed a new activism within the Net world, epitomized by the bla...
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