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18 April 2012
US Judge Forbids Motorola From Using German Injunction Against Microsoft
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Here's an interesting development in the legal battle between Microsoft and Motorola in Germany that we discussed recently. It seems ...
As ACTA 1.0 Lies Dying, Are G8 Countries Already Working On ACTA 2.0?
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As we recently reported , ACTA has been dealt a serious blow by the EU Rapporteur's recommendation that the European Parliament shoul...
Another Reason Why DRM Is Bad -- For Publishers
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As a way of fighting unauthorized sharing of digital files, DRM is particularly stupid. It not only doesn't work -- DRM is always bro...
Russia Takes SOPA-Like Approach In Encouraging ISPs To Spy On Their Users
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Something that's proving popular with politicians running out of ideas for tackling unauthorized sharing of copyright materials online...
EU Rapporteur Deals Major Blow To ACTA: Recommends Rejection By European Parliament
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At the end of a morning of discussions about ACTA organized by the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament , the Rapporteur for...
ACTA Update XIII
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What an extraordinary ride ACTA is proving. When I first started this series of ACTA Updates back in February, I didn't hold out mu...
As Germany Becomes Europe's East Texas, Microsoft Moves Its Distribution Center
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Just as companies often try to file their patent lawsuits in East Texas, so Germany is emerging as a favorite forum for patent litigation i...
11 April 2012
Open Textbook Startup Sued For Allegedly Copying 'Distinctive Selection, Arrangement, and Presentation' Of Facts From Existing Titles
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The Boycott Elsevier movement discussed here on Techdirt several times was born of a frustration at the high prices of academic journals...
Another Billion-Dollar Open Source Company: Instagram
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Earlier this week I wrote about the first company based on open source to reach a turnover of one billion dollars. But of course, there...
Unhappy With Even Minimal Scrutiny, US Removes Last Pretense Of TPP Transparency
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One of the central problems of ACTA has been its lack of transparency . TPP has also been negotiated behind closed doors, but unlike ACTA...
Of Microsoft, Netscape, Patents and Open Standards
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I still remember well the day in October 1994 when I downloaded the first beta of Netscape's browser. It was instantly obvious that t...
If Piracy Is So Devastating, Why Are We Seeing An Unprecedented Outpouring Of Creativity?
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One of the favorite tropes of the anti-piracy crowd is that all this unauthorized sharing is killing culture, pauperizing artists and gen...
Red Hat's Billion Dollars And the Power of Free
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Recently, there was some justified excitement that Red Hat had finally done it, and turned in annual sales of over $1 billion . A couple o...
Just Because It's Now Cheaper And Easier To Spy On Everyone All The Time, Doesn't Mean Governments Should Do It
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Rick Falkvinge has another of his fascinating posts up on his Web site, but this one's slightly different from his usual insights into...
06 April 2012
Where TPP Goes Beyond ACTA -- And How It Shows Us The Future Of IP Enforcement
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ACTA and TPP have much in common. That's no coincidence, since they are both born of a common desire to move away from multilateral f...
Polish Government Funding 'Full Set Of Educational Materials' Available Under CC-BY
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One of the fields that is ripe for disruption by open digital technologies and business models based on abundance is education. That'...
A Copyright First: Bogus Copyright Takedown Leads To Australian Court Awarding $150k Damages
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We're so inured to hearing about unjustified claims of copyright infringement going unpunished that's it's good to come across ...
What Quilting's Legal Battles Can Teach Us About Copyright
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Last year Techdirt wrote about Leah Day, who was trying to introduce a free model to quilting -- apparently a bold thing to do. Sadly, ...
German Scriptwriters Attack 'Greens, Pirates, Left-wingers And Internet Community' For Daring To Have Different Views On Copyright
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The German series " Tatort " ("Crime Scene") has been running since 1970, and remains one of the most popular program...
05 April 2012
Our Imminent Summer of Digital Discontent
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As you may have noticed, the weather is rather confused in the UK at the moment – one moment sweltering, the next freezing. But I predi...
01 April 2012
Urgent: Defend a Balanced UK Approach to Copyright
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Copyright consultations seem to be like buses: you wait for years, then several come at once. In the wake of the Hargreaves report, and ...
Open Standards Licensing: Apple's Key Evidence
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As regular readers know, there is a struggle going on between the free software community that needs open standards to be RF (strictly sp...
ACTA Update XI
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Although I've not written about ACTA here for a few weeks, things are still bubbling away in Brussels. Here's a good summary of ...
If ACTA Is So Great, Where Are All The Supporters Extolling Its Virtues?
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One of the striking features of the ACTA debate is the deafening silence from those who are in favor of it. Maybe that's down to the ...
UK Publishers Association Outraged It Wasn't Consulted Ahead Of The Public Over Open Access To Publicly-Funded Research
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While the global boycott of Elsevier by academics continues to gain momentum and signatures – at the time of writing, the number is appro...
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