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11 November 2012
From Open Source to Crowdfunding
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One of the premises of this blog is that the success and methodology of open source are not one-offs, but part of a larger move towards o...
How A Drone Might Save Your Life
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There is a natural tendency to accentuate the negative when it comes to drones -- concentrating on how these "spies the sky" re...
Give Your Views on Europe's Digital Future
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As you may have gathered, I'm a big fan of consultations: if they are asking us what we think, we really ought not pass up the chance...
Bulgarian Banks Try To Silence Web Site That Called Them 'Bad Apples'
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Whatever your views on the value of Wikileaks, one of its useful side-effects has been the appearance of other sites that have tried to ...
Scientist Refused Permission To Call Hominids 'Hobbits', Even Though Word First Used In Print In 1895 -- And Not By Tolkien
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Techdirt has written before about the aggressive enforcement habits of the Tolkien estate, once in connection with the name " Tolkien...
OECD Gets It: The Internet Works, So Don't Break It
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Yesterday I wrote about an extraordinarily clueless document from an arm of the UN that seemed to have no real understanding of what th...
Will Proposed Pan-Africa Intellectual Property Organization Enable The West To Impose Its Monopolies?
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Back in May, Techdirt pointed to a presentation from Mike Palmedo listing a wide range of research that demonstrates the lack of a conn...
Making The Most Of File Sharing: Free Market Research & A Captive Target Audience
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The demonization of file sharing by copyright maximalists blinds many companies to the fact that it is marketing in its purest form. Tha...
EU Surveillance Team: We Need More Surveillance To Justify More Surveillance
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Whether or not you believe that CCTV surveillance makes the world a safer place, there's a big problem with deploying it more widely:...
Is The EU's New Directive On Clinical Trials Moving In The Wrong Direction?
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It's a cliché that we live in a world increasingly awash with digital data. Even though it all comes down to 1s and 0s, not all data...
UN Assault on the Open Internet and Privacy
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As you may recall , terrorism was one of the primary justifications for bringing in the disproportionate Draft Communications Data Bill: ...
Indian Politician Plans To Install Surveillance Cameras In His Ministers' Homes And Offices
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Recently, Tim noted that, for some strange reason, politicians don't like having the same level of surveillance applied to them as ...
Costa Rican Students Fight For The Right To Photocopy Textbooks
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One of the most important pieces of research to emerge last year was " Media Piracy in Emerging Economies ". A central theme w...
Is Amazon Playing Fair?
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In the online world, it's hard to remember a time before Amazon. Today, it dominates the ecommerce space, and is rapidly becoming eq...
Amazon Wipes Customer's Account, Locks All Ebooks, Says 'Find A New Retailer' When She Asks Why
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Techdirt has been warning people for several years that they don't really own the ebooks they have on their Amazon Kindles. The most...
30 Years Of The CD, Of Digital Piracy, And Of Music Industry Cluelessness
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A post on The Next Web reminds us that the CD is thirty years old this month . As the history there explains, work began back in the 197...
Does CETA Spell ACTA?
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Last month I wrote about the "clean and open Internet" consultation being carried out by the European Commission, and pointed...
Free Software Foundation Certifies 3D Printer -- And Why That Matters
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Last week Mike wrote about a new patent from Intellectual Ventures that seeks to assert ownership of the idea of DRM for 3D printing. ...
Dutch Propose Powers For Police To Break Into Computers, Install Spyware And Destroy Data -- Anywhere In The World
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Techdirt readers with long memories may recall a fantasy proposal from Orrin Hatch that would have seen technological means deployed to ...
After India, Now Indonesia Introduces Patent Licenses For Generic Versions Of Drugs
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As we noted a couple of weeks ago, when we wrote about India's moves to issue compulsory licences for the production of generic ver...
Ubuntu Users To Get To Vote With Their Wallets In Support Of New Features
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Free software is famously close to its users, drawing on them for warnings about bugs (and sometimes fixes), as well as ideas and sugges...
Could Co-operatives Save Newspapers -- And Investigative Journalism?
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A couple of weeks ago, we reported that Rupert Murdoch's paywall at the London Times isn't looking like a huge success. That w...
GOV.UK "Open" for Business; More to Follow
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Back in February I wrote about an exciting project from the Cabinet Office: a complete overhaul of the UK government's "citize...
Why This EU Meeting on FRAND in Open Source?
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Long-suffering readers may recall that the issue of FRAND licensing in the context of open standards cropped up quite a lot this year. W...
Bangladesh Seeks To Throttle Independent News Sites And Their Awkward Stories
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One of the great things about online news sites is that they are so easy to set up: you don't need a printing press or huge numbers o...
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