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10 February 2013
France, Cradle Of 'Three Strikes' Punishment, Explores Another Bad Idea: Killing Net Neutrality
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Not content with giving the world the "three strikes" approach to copyright enforcement, France has recently shown signs of wan...
Re-inventing Academic Publishing: 'Diamond' Open Access Titles That Are Free To Read And Free To Publish
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As Techdirt has been reporting, the idea of providing open access to publicly-funded research is steadily gaining ground. One of the key...
WikiLeaks Reveals Aaron Swartz May Have Been A Source: Wise Move?
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WikiLeaks currently finds itself in a difficult position. Funds are trickling in because of a questionable financial blockade against it ...
Another Reason to Use Open Source: Sane Licensing
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A couple of weeks ago, I pointed out how a decision in Norway involving cash registers emphasised one of the advantages of open source ...
Australia's Spies Want To Put Members Of The Public At Risk By Using Them To Pass On Malware to Suspected Terrorists
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Last year we wrote about the German police using malware to spy on members of the public. Now ASIO, Australia's national secret serv...
Learning From Aaron Swartz: Content Must Not Be The End Game For Knowledge
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In the wake of the suicide of Aaron Swartz, there have been many fine tributes to the man and his work. Another growing class of posts t...
Pharma Companies Try 'DRM' For Drugs As A Ploy To Stymie Generics
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One of the striking features of the drug world is how pharma companies become noticeably more inventive immediately before their patents...
Portuguese Government Capitulates On Copyright Levies, Despite Lack Of Support From Public And Artists
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Back in February last year, Techdirt wrote about the rather pathetic attempts of the Portuguese Society of Authors (SPA) to drum up some...
Will Neelie Kroes Defend or Destroy EU Net Neutrality?
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I have a lot of time for Neelie Kroes , Vice-President of the European Commission with responsibility for the Digital Agenda. She's...
Toxic Cloud Computing, and How Open Source Can Help
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There are so many parts to the institutions running the European Union that it's easy to lose sight of them all and their varied act...
UK Mobile Operator 3UK Filtering New Class Of 'Mature Content', Including Political Satire
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Smartphones have some big advantages: they offer considerable computing power in a highly-portable form, and are available at prices tha...
Beatles' First Single Enters Public Domain -- In Europe
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The Beatles remain the iconic pop group, so news on VVN/Music that their very first single has now entered the public domain is something...
Fighting for Open Access
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As you may have noticed, this weekend the online world has been filled with news of and responses to the suicide of the young American a...
Another Reason to Use Open Source: Auditability
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The Norwegian Ministry of Finance seems to be taking a bit of stick at the moment. It wants all the existing cash registers in the count...
EU Data Protection and Open Standards
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As happened for last year, 2013 will doubtless see plenty of battles in the domains of open standards, copyright and software patents, bu...
OpenStreetMap: the Open Source of the Mobile Age
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One of the themes of this blog has been the wider influence of open source. Everyone knows about open content projects like Wikipedia, b...
World Economic Forum Warns That Patents Are Making Us Lose The Race Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
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Back in June last year, Techdirt reported on the warning from the World Health Organization's Director-General that we risked enterin...
Study Shows Educational And Social Harm 'Three Strikes' Punishment Would Cause Young People
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One of the extraordinary aspects of the "three strikes" approach to copyright enforcement is its blind vindictiveness. After t...
Web Blocking's Slippery Slope: It's Never 'Just' One Site
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Even against a background of repeated attempts to censor the Net, it's still possible to become a little complacent about some of the...
Church Site Blocked By Mobile Networks, Classified Under 'Alcohol'
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Against a background of the UK government teetering on the brink of imposing an opt-out Web filter "for the children", here'...
Pirated Buildings In China And The Rise Of Architectural Mashups
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Although China is often glibly dismissed as little more than an imitator of others, yet another story about copying paradoxically shows ...
Move Over 'TacoCopter': Here Comes The 'Internet Of Drones'
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As we know, the Internet works by breaking digital information up into IP packets which are then routed independently over the network, ...
Opera About Walt Disney Refused Permission To Use Disney Images
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Techdirt has noted before the hypocrisy of Disney in refusing to allow others to draw on its creativity in the same way that it has drawn...
The Main Problem With Patented GM Food Is The Patent, Not The Fact That It's GM
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The acrimonious debate and serious lobbying that developed around California's Proposition 37 , which would have required the labelli...
Danish Court Orders Spanish Site Blocked Because It Uses Trademarked English Word 'Home' As Part Of Its Name
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Daft trademarking stories are common enough, but it's always fun to come across new variations on the theme. Netzpolitik points us t...
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