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17 March 2013
French Politicians Worry That Free Creative Commons Works Devalue 'Legal' Offers
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As Techdirt noted last year, France has a regrettable habit of dreaming up really bad ideas when it comes to the Internet, most famously...
France Considers Operating System-Level Filtering
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Long-time readers will remember the appalling way in which the UK' s Digital Economy Act was brought in - with no research, no debate...
10 March 2013
Chinese Junk Patents Flood Into Australia, Allowing Chinese Companies To Strategically Block Innovation
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Techdirt has been writing for a while about China's policy of providing incentives to file patents -- regardless of whether those pat...
Mozilla to the Rescue, Again?
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I've written a number of posts about Mozilla's rise and fall and rise: how it went from saving the open Web and open standards in...
Early Lessons From New Zealand's 'Three Strikes' Punishments
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New Zealand has the unhappy distinction of being in the vanguard of using the "three strikes" approach of punishment for people...
Select Committee Inquiry into Clinical Trials Data
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Back in November last year, I wrote about a particular class of open data - that regarding clinical trials data. I pointed out that of...
Bizarre: Indian Government Orders Censorship Of One Its Own Sites
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Techdirt has been tracking for some time the worrying moves in India that have involved censoring the Twitter accounts of journalists and...
Armed UK Police Raid House Over Facebook Picture Showing Toy Weapon In Background
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One of the reasons Techdirt rails against exaggerated responses to supposed terrorist threats is that it has caused police forces around ...
The Continuing Disaster Of Open Government In Germany
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Recently, Techdirt noted that the European "database right" could pose a threat to releasing public data there. But that assu...
HADOPI May Be Succeeding -- In Driving French Customers To Dotcom's Mega
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Last week, Techdirt reported on the news that falling numbers of P2P users are being trumpeted as a victory for HADOPI's "three ...
Bhutan's Government: Gross National Happiness, Yes; Sense Of Humor, Not So Much
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Aside from its spectacular location up in the Himalayas, the Kingdom of Bhutan is probably best known for eschewing measurements of Gross...
Python Trademark At Risk In Europe: Python Software Foundation Appeals For Help
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The open source programming language Python -- named after the British comedy series "Monty Python" -- became popular in the ...
Here's A Use Of Drones (Nearly) Everyone Will Like
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It seems like every other headline is about drones these days -- drones being used in battle, drones being used by the police, drones as...
EU Data Protection: Please Write to MEPs Now
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Last week I wrote about the revelation (to me, at least - maybe other people knew this was going on) that MEP s were simply cutting and ...
Python in Peril - Please Help
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Trademarks are a problem for free software, because there is a tension between a desire to encourage sharing of the software, and a need...
BBC Attacks the Open Web, GNU/Linux in Danger
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The Web is one of the most dramatic demonstrations of the power of openness, alongside free software, which not coincidentally runs most ...
09 March 2013
IIPA Wants Canada And Spain On The 'Naughty' Special 301 List Even Though They Brought In Tough New Copyright Laws
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Here on Techdirt, one of the things we look forward to each year is the comedy production known as the 301 Report, where the US makes the...
Will The ITU's Increasing Focus On Control And Surveillance Split The Internet?
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Techdirt covered the WCIT circus in Dubai in some depth last year, since important issues were at stake. As many feared, after a moment ...
European Patent Office Gives Staff Bonus For Issuing Bumper Crop Of Patents: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
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The European Patent Office (EPO) is a curious body. Despite its name, it is not the patent office for the European Union (EU) in the sa...
Europe's 'Database Right' Could Throttle Open Data Moves There
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One of the more benighted moves by the European Union was the introduction of a special kind of copyright for databases in 1996: not for...
China's Censorship Hits Internet Users In Other Countries
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It's hardly a surprise these days that Chinese Internet companies routinely self-censor what appears on their services: the world kno...
How Lobbyists' Changes To EU Data Protection Regulation Were Copied Word-For-Word Into Proposed Amendments
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Everyone knows that politicians are lobbied, sometimes massively. But it's rare to be able to track directly the detailed effects of...
China Tries To Bolster Claim To Disputed Pacific Islands By Upgrading Mobile Coverage There
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The Spratly Islands are some 750 reefs, atolls and islands in the South China Sea that are claimed variously by Brunei, the People'...
EU Data Protection: Proposed Amendments Written by US Lobbyists
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It's becoming clear that the lobbying around the proposed EU directive on Data Protection is some of the most intense ever seen - so...
Digital Copyright Principles, According To The Davos Set
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Maybe it's just me, but this year's annual meeting of the global elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos seemed particular...
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