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20 July 2013
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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15 June 2013
Glyn Moody's PGP Key
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In the light of, er, recent events, I've decided to up my crypto game - I now encourage people to use PGP when emailing me. Here's ...
02 June 2013
Watch Out for the Coming TAFTA/TTIP "Science-Based" Negotiating Trick [Updated]
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As anyone who has been following me recently will know, one of the most important geopolitical developments is the decision to negotiate a ...
17 May 2013
Why are Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle Backing the Fight *Against* the Blind?
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One of the more disgraceful examples of the inherent selfishness of the copyright world is that it has consistently blocked a glo...
13 May 2013
How Publishers Have Fought Against the Treaty for the Blind
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One of the most disgraceful manifestations of the callousness of copyright maximalists is their 30-year refusal to countenance any meaningf...
03 May 2013
Please Help Save Open Source Seeds Now
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Seeds have much in common with code. Indeed, I wrote an entire book about how genomics parallels the world of software. In particular, t...
24 April 2013
Please Write to MEPs *Now* about TAFTA/TTIP
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There's an important vote in INTA today (25 April) on the transatlantic trade agreement (TAFTA/TTIP), and there are some crucial issu...
16 April 2013
Letter to UK Supermarkets on Use of non-GM Feed
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As you may have read , by an amazing coincidence, most of the UK's leading supermarkets have simultaneously announced that they will no...
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14 April 2013
Here's Another Inventor Who Willingly Gave Away His Greatest Idea In Order To Establish It As A Global Standard
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Beyond the fact that you are using it to read these words, the Web has undeniably had a major impact on a large part of the world's p...
EU Proposal for (Nearly) Open Data [Update]
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Update: Maƫl Brunet has pointed out that the press release I linked to below is from 2011; what was actually announced yesterday was...
French Politician Wants To Limit How Cheaply Companies Can Sell Goods Online Compared to Physical Shop Prices
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A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about a store that was trying to charge customers $5 for " just looking ", because it fel...
How Multilateral Free Trade Agreements Are Bypassing Democratic Decision-Making Around The World
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One of the most worrying aspects of ACTA -- which began life as a "simple" treaty about combatting counterfeit goods -- was how...
OpenDaylight and the Future of Enterprise Software
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Earlier this week, the Linux Foundation made an announcement about the oddly-named OpenDaylight project: On Open Enterprise blog .
I Re-send My IPRED Letter to the European Commission
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Last week I wrote a letter to the European Commission about the extraordinary failure of the IPRED consultation process. I certainly...
French Intelligence Agency Forces Wikipedia Volunteer to Delete Article; Re-Instated, It Becomes Most-Read Page On French Wikipedia
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Last week, we wrote about an organization that was unhappy that a Wikipedia article no longer existed. Now we have the opposite problem...
Google Under Attack in the EU: Microsoft to the Rescue?
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As I wrote last week, all the main browsers are jockeying for position in the world of mobile, which is generally recognised as the key...
Icelandic Politicians Ignore Crowdsourced Constitution; Pirate Party Rejoices
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Techdirt has been following the fascinating saga of Iceland's crowdsourced constitution for nearly two years. Back in October 2012,...
Mozilla and the Open Source Browser Bonanza
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Even if you don't remember the birth of Mozilla 15 years ago , you are certainly benefitting from its consequences. For, back then, ...
Amazon Refuses To Publish First Cornish-Language Ebook
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As we've noted before, Amazon is beginning to wield considerable power over the entire publishing chain. The past teaches us that a...
Letter to European Commission on IPRED
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Following my post yesterday about the extraordinary failure of the IPRED consultation process, I enclose below my letter sent to the ...
Wikipedia Editor Threatened With Lawsuit For Participating In Discussion Leading To Deletion Of Entry
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After weathering earlier attacks on its reliability, Wikipedia is now an essential feature of our online and cultural landscapes. Indee...
Indian Supreme Court Rejects Trivial 'Evergreening' Of Pharma Patents
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Back in October last year, in the context of India showing itself increasingly sceptical about pharma patents that drive up drug prices...
The Great IPRED Consultation Fiasco
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Last week I made a couple of urgent pleas to readers to complete the major EU IPRED consultation, which was being conducted on the We...
NATO 'Cyberwar' Manual Says Hacktivists Must Wear A Uniform
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Last year, Techdirt wrote about an interesting article suggesting that we should welcome "cyberwar" since it would be so much...
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