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31 March 2013
Please Register for the EU's IPRED Consultation *Now*
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IPRED is not that well known, even among the Net-savvy. And yet it's one of the most important EU directives that affects the onlin...
The Great "Cyber" Con
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Hackers and hacking have been much in the news recently - for all the wrong reasons, unfortunately. The most dramatic case, perhaps, was...
Brazil's New Political Party: Green With A Shade Of Pirate
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Techdirt has been following the rapid rise and current problems of the various Pirate Parties in Europe for some time. Both their su...
What's Wrong With This Picture?
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As you may have heard, there's been an election in Rome recently. These kind of events tend to bring out the crowds, and NBC had t...
Crazy Idea Of The Month: Allowing Patents On Mathematics
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It would be something of an understatement to say that people have strong opinions about patents. But as Techdirt has reported, there...
India Says: 'There Is No Direct Correlation Between IP And Innovation'
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Techdirt has been pointing out for years that more patents is not the same thing as more innovation, even though many around the world w...
Open Source: That's the Way to Do It
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Although the use of open source by the UK government has an unhappy history (and one that certainly isn't finished), one ray of hope ...
Why the Unitary Patent Will Harm European Innovation
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Regular readers of this column will know that I am not overly enamoured of the European Patent Office, since it has effectively introduc...
Canadian Librarians 'Owe Duty Of Loyalty To The Government,' Must Self-Censor Opinions Even In Private
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Librarians can play an important role in any society that depends increasingly on access to information to function. One of their jobs ...
Apple's Patent For Creating A Leak-Proof Data Pipe, And Why It's Doomed To Fail
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In 2001, I published a history of free software, called "Rebel Code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution." One of the...
California Attorney General Claims Foreign Companies Using 'Pirated' Software Represent Unfair Competition
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Two years ago, Techdirt wrote about the major report "Media Piracy in Emerging Economies", which explored how media and softwar...
UK Politician Hates the (Digital) Environment
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how the irony-immune IT department of the European Parliament was censoring emails complaining abou...
Publishers Show Yet Again How To Make Money By Reducing The Price To Zero
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One of the slogans of the copyright industries is that you can't make money from giving things away. Unfortunately for them, example...
Now US Wants Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement With European Union To Include Turkey: Who's Next?
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Last week we wrote about the important news that Mexico is asking to join what began as a bilateral trade agreement between the US and ...
Giant Pharma Company Claims Releasing Data On Drug Safety Is Illegal As It's Confidential And 'Commercially Sensitive'
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One of the initiatives gaining momentum around the world is open data -- the idea that, for example, non-personal data affecting the pub...
Why TAFTA Matters, and What We Should Do About It
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Back in January, I wrote about what I called the "Trans-Atlantic Partnership Agreement", by analogy with the Trans-Pacific Part...
UK Politician Says EU Site Wants To 'Brainwash' Children With Propaganda About Democratic Principles
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The UK is famous for its tabloid newspapers and their particular brand of journalism. Here's a fine example from the Daily Express, ...
Publishers Have A New Strategy For Neutralizing Open Access -- And It's Working
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Over the last few years, Techdirt has been reporting on a steady stream of victories for open access. Along the way publishers have tri...
Reading the Google Reader Tea-leaves
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If you were online late last night - and especially if you were on Twitter - you may have noted an enormous wave of pain and anger sweepi...
Mexico Will Ask To Join US-EU Transatlantic Trade Agreement
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Things are moving fast with the proposed US-EU transatlantic free trade agreement (TAFTA). It was only a few weeks ago that the formal ...
If Microsoft Shuts Down Google Maps In Germany, How Does That Benefit The Public?
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Most sane human beings have stopped trying to keep up with the interwined legal actions arising out of the smartphone patent wars betwe...
Public Well-Being Must Be 'Primary Measurement' Of US-EU Trade Agreement
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Now that the US and EU have officially announced the start of talks on a new bilateral free trade agreement -- sorry, a "trade an...
Is This What Google Really Thinks About Privacy?
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I've been writing quite a lot about the current Data Protection regulation that is being considered in the European Parliament. As I...
Why Site Blocking Orders Need To Be Challenged In Court
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There is an extremely dangerous trend to remove proper judicial review from cases involving alleged copyright infringement. Sometimes t...
Australian Recording Industry Continues To Fight The Technology That Is Saving It
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There have been many posts on Techdirt about the copyright industry's hatred for new technologies that eventually turned out to be i...
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