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19 March 2012
Urgent: Please Reply to UK Copyright Consultation
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It seems like the UK copyright studies and consultations have been going on for years - first with the Gowers Review , followed by the Harg...
18 March 2012
Strange: Vote Against Freeing Up Orphan Works Achieves 113% Turnout In EU Committee
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One of the unresolved problems of copyright is how to deal with huge numbers of orphan works -- creations still in copyright, but whose o...
Drone Attack: How We Might Willingly Embrace The Surveillance Society
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It's striking how drones have passed from a mysterious weapon used to wreak destruction in distant lands to something that could well ...
15 March 2012
Microsoft's Open Standards Fairy Tale
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Regular readers of this column will know that I often write about the issues of open standards and FRAND vs. RF licensing. One particular c...
TPP Talks Deadlocked; Still No Transparency
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As Techdirt revealed a couple of days ago, one reason why the European Commission decided to refer ACTA to the European Court of Justice...
Spotify Finally Launches In Germany -- And Immediately Hits Data Protection Problems
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The music streaming service Spotify has adopted a rather unusual pattern of launches around the world. Founded in Sweden, it spread grad...
14 March 2012
Submission to Consultation on Copyright: Exceptions
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In my previous post about submitting a reply to the UK government consultation on copyright, I concentrated on one area, that of orphan ...
13 March 2012
Collection Society To Libraries: No Story Time For Kids Unless You Pay To Read Aloud
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If there's a common trait of the various rightsholders groups around the world, it is their sense of entitlement. If anyone does anyt...
Do We Have a Right To Open Public Data?
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The progress made by the open data movement is pretty extraordinary. A few years ago, data was something that only statisticians cared a...
European Commission Blames Social Networks For ACTA Failure; Worried About Its Imminent Directive On Copyright Enforcement
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Now that the EU's ratification of ACTA has departed from the original script of everyone just waving it through, the European Commissi...
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As Michael Geist and others have pointed out, ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement without the main sources of counterfeits b...
07 March 2012
Workshop Audience Barred From 'Demonstrating' Approval Of Michael Geist's ACTA Takedown
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Although ACTA has now been referred by the European Commission to the European Court of Justice, it continues its passage through the va...
Isn't It Time Artists Lost Their 18th-Century Sense Of Entitlement?
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One of the common assumptions in the copyright debate is that artists are special, and that they have a right to make money from their wor...
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ACTA Update X
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As far as we can tell, ACTA has been put on hold for months, maybe even a year, while the European Court of Justice (ECJ) considers its c...
How The Runaway Success Of A Tiny $25 Computer Could Become A Big Problem For Oppressive Regimes
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The Raspberry Pi is a $25 credit-card sized computer that has succeeded in making GNU/Linux not just newsworthy, but downright desirable...
Why Digital Texts Need A New Library Of Alexandria -- With Physical Books
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Amidst the growing enthusiasm for digital texts -- ebooks and scans of illustrated books -- it's easy to overlook some important drawb...
German Government Wants Google To Pay To Show News Snippets
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Some bad ideas just keep on coming back, despite the fact that they are manifestly stupid. Trying to get Google and others to pay for the...
Hacktivist Judo: Musician Exploits New Spanish Law To Overwhelm System With Legitimate Infringement Complaints
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As Techdirt reported earlier this year, Spain's Sinde Law, designed to combat file sharing by blocking sites with allegedly infringi...
UK Government Pressuring Search Engines To Censor Results In Favor Of Copyright Industries
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One of the most insidious aspects of recent Internet policy-making is that much of it is taking place behind closed doors, with little or ...
Time To Go: Why EU Commissioner De Gucht Has Disqualified Himself From Handling ACTA
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Even though the European Commission has referred ACTA to the European Court of Justice, the European Parliament continues to examine the...
02 March 2012
EC Defends Interoperability, but Misses Bigger Picture
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Here's an interesting move from the European Commission: On Open Enterprise blog .
'We, The Web Kids': Manifesto For An Anti-ACTA Generation
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One of the striking features of the demonstrations against ACTA that took place across Europe over the last few weeks was the youth of ...
Does Guernsey Really Want To Become Famous -- And Ostracized -- For Introducing Image Rights?
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Just as the original term of copyright has been constantly extended from the original 14 years in the Statute of Anne, so the the scope of...
Dutch Research Reveals Wide Scope For Copyright Flexibilities In EU Laws
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A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about a surprising initiative by the Netherlands to introduce new flexibilities into its copyright...
EU Censorship Plan With A Cheesy Name: The Clean IT Project
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A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt reported on UK politicians calling for ISPs to "take down" terrorist content. Now it seems th...
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