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29 September 2012
EU Open Voluntarism Consultation: Your Views
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If you cast your mind back to the heady days of summer, when we were all worried about what ACTA might do, one of the problems was with Art...
Why Everyone Should Care About DRM's Punishment Of The Visually Impaired
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Techdirt writes a lot about the problems with DRM, and how inefficient and inconvenient it is. But for millions of visually-impaired peo...
Let's Clean up the Clean IT Project
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Any EU project called " Clean IT ", with all that implies for elements that are regarded as "dirty", is worrying enou...
Megaupload Farce Stirring Up Backlash Against Copyright Overreach
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Just when you think the Megaupload farce can't get any more ridiculous, it does. Following revelations that New Zealand's Govern...
Rupert Murdoch Admits Defeat: Now Wants London Times To Appear In Search Results
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Remember back in 2009, when Techdirt reported that Rupert Murdoch hated Google so much he had decided to block the search engine from in...
Neelie Kroes: Passion and Pence for Openness
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Neelie Kroes is not your average European Commissioner. Before she became the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, her current post,...
UK Prosecutors Finally Acknowledge The Need For A Real Discussion About Free Speech Online
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As Tim Cushing rightly noted earlier this week, the UK's "Free Speech" laws are more about the many things you can't say...
How UK Police Attempted To Misuse Official Databases To Smear Disaster Victims
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A recent scandal in the UK concerned the country's worst sporting disaster, when 96 football/soccer fans were crushed to death at a s...
Cambodia Wants Mandatory Surveillance Cameras In Internet Cafes
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Large-scale surveillance of private communications is becoming depressingly routine, even in supposedly enlightened democracies. In less ...
A New Issue For Bitcoin: Crypto Key Disclosure
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The debate is still raging whether Bitcoin is a brilliant idea that will revolutionize business and society, a high-tech money laundering ...
EU Officials Propose Internet Cops On Patrol, No Anonymity & No Obscure Languages (Because Terrorism!)
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Back in February we wrote about the ominously-named "Clean IT" project in Europe, designed to combat the use of the Internet b...
New Minister Of Culture In Brazil Brings Hope Of Return To Earlier Enlightened Copyright Policy
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As Techdirt observed back in 2007, Brazilian artists were some of the first to recognize that piracy can be a positive force that helps ...
The Next Attack on Net Neutrality
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One of the depressing things about net neutrality is that it is a battle that must be won again and again. It's becoming increasingly ...
Old Lady Ruins Fresco, Claims Copyright, Demands Money
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Remember that sweet octogenarian lady in Spain who tried to restore a 19th-century fresco "Ecce Homo" and ended up producing so...
Why Computer Companies Should Copy The Fashion Industry
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Techdirt has had many posts pointing out that the huge and vibrant fashion industry is a perfect demonstration that you don't need mon...
India And Kyrgyzstan Ramp Up Internet Monitoring And Censorship Efforts
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Techdirt has written about earlier moves by India to block Web sites and censor Twitter accounts. The central concern seems to be that ...
Top Pirate Party Member Has DMCA Takedown Notices Issued In Her Name
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Julia Schramm is one of the rising stars of the German Pirate Party: in April, when she was just 27 years old, she was elected to the nat...
Beyond Open for Business
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Reports about open source tend to be rather one-sided: either polemics against, or propaganda for, depending on who's paying for them....
Syrian Activist Arrested By Secret Police Merely For Having Livestreaming App Installed On His Phone
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Police and security forces around the world -- and that includes in the West -- hate being recorded when they're overstepping the mark...
'Setting The Default To Open': The Next Ten Years Of Open Access
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As Techdirt has reported , open access (OA) is scoring more and more major wins currently. But the battle to gain free access to academi...
First HADOPI Victim Convicted, Not For His Own Infringement, But Because His Wife Downloaded Songs
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Well, here's a nice contrast: just when a judge in the US has ruled that users there have no obligation to lock down their wifi conn...
13 September 2012
Open Data Institute Gets Ready to Open Its Doors
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Open data continues to spread around the world - here's a great recent summary of what's happening where. But simply making gove...
The New Kremlinology: Decoding The Signals Of Future EU Copyright Enforcement Moves
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The negotiations behind closed doors of major treaties like ACTA and TPP, and the refusal of participants to release official drafts or to...
What a Wonderful Piece of Work is Opus
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When we talk of free software, we typically think of things like GNU /Linux, Apache or Firefox. But one aspect that often gets overlooked...
Chile Leads The Way On Intermediary Liability Protections
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As Techdirt reported , the European Commission is conducting a major consultation on the "procedures for notifying and acting on ill...
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