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20 July 2013
Double Blow Against Freedom Of Speech For Twitter Users In Turkey
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Techdirt has written a few times about Turkey's difficult relationship with new technology. Unfortunately, it looks like that now...
'Pay For Delay' Drug Deals Under Scrutiny In US, EU And UK
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The last time Techdirt wrote about " pay for delay " deals, whereby a big pharma company essentially buys off manufacturers o...
Australian Census Data Released Under CC License, But Official Site Tries To Make It Hard To Download
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The whole point about adopting Creative Commons licenses is to make it easier for people to share and use works released under them. S...
Leading Italian Film Producer Calls For $16 Billion Lawsuit Against Italian State For Alleged Inaction Against Piracy
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Last year we wrote about EMI suing the Irish government for having the temerity not to pass a SOPA-Like censorship law. That truly ex...
Why Public Interest Trumps Trade Secrecy
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Most companies have a natural tendency to keep details of their activities secret -- the fear being that competitors might be able to e...
Lithuania And Estonia Use Google Maps Street View To Catch Tax Cheats
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As we've noted before, the information captured by Google's Street View has been put to some surprising uses, and the Boston Glo...
Cambodian Activists Explain Why The EU-India FTA Is A Matter Of Life And Death
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One of the many problems with the secretive nature of trade agreements is that it insulates negotiators from the real-world consequences...
The Free, Open Web: 20 Years of RF Licensing
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As regular readers of this column know, there's still a battle going on over whether standards should be FRAND or restrict...
European Commission Replies to My IPRED Letter
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Earlier this month I wrote a couple of posts about a letter I sent off to the European Commission concerning my appalling experience wit...
Please Write to MEPs *Now* about TAFTA/TTIP
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Sorry to trouble you again this week, but there's an important vote in INTA today (25 April) on the transatlantic trade agreement (TA...
Please Write to Your MPs About Snooper's Charter
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It seems that the UK government will be deciding what to do about the Snooper's Charter this week. It is already under huge pressur...
Clinical Trials Must be Open Data: Please Contact MEPs
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Back in February, I noted that the UK' s investigation into making clinical trial data freely available was somewhat subsidiary to th...
Software Patents Storming Up the Agenda Again
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As regular readers of this column will know, software patents have never really gone away, even though the European Patent Convention fo...
Why CISPA Shows We Need Strong EU Data Protection
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It seems hard to believe that it was only a little over a year ago that the threat from the US SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) was averted (...
The Future of Commercial Open Source: Foundations
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Remember MySQL? Most famous for being part of the LAMP stack, and thus powering the bulk of the innovative work done in the field of ec...
'Intellectual Bulwark' Of Austerity Economics Collapses Because Of Three Major Errors
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Amongst economists and those who draw on their thinking, the names Reinhart and Rogoff are well known for work published under the title...
UK Supreme Court Says Unauthorized Browsing Of Copyright Material Online Is OK, But Asks European Court Of Justice Just In Case
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The lawsuits brought against the media monitoring firm Meltwater in both the US and the UK have not turned out too well for the company ...
Argentine Judge Says Community Rights To Access Works Can Outweigh Creator's Moral Rights
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Even though they don't figure much in the US legal landscape, moral (non-economic) rights such as the right of attribution are an im...
Western Publishers Sue Delhi University Over Photocopied Textbooks; Students And Authors Fight Back
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Back in October last year, we wrote about Costa Rican students taking to the streets to defend their right to photocopy otherwise unaff...
Investor-State Dispute Resolution: The Monster Lurking Inside Free Trade Agreements
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We wrote recently about how multilateral trade agreements have become a convenient way to circumvent democratic decision making. One o...
When Is An Image 'Manipulated Enough' To Become An Original Creation?
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Images manipulated using programs like Photoshop or the GIMP are a familiar sight online. Indeed, the ease with which images can be mo...
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/04/italys-big-leap-forward-for-openness/index.htm
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A few weeks ago, I wrote of the continuing progress on the central Gov.uk site, which is a showcase of open technologies, as well as be...
Italy's Great Leap Forward for Openness?
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Different countries are moving at different speeds in terms of governmental adoption of free software, open data and openness in general...
How Big Agribusiness Is Heading Off The Threat From Seed Generics -- And Failing To Keep The Patent Bargain
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Recently we wrote about how pharmaceutical companies use " evergreening " to extend their control over drugs as the patents ex...
05 July 2013
Birth of a Meme: the Tweetlog
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As some of you may know, alongside this blog here - a slightly empty place at the moment, for which apologies - I run something called rath...
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