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An Important Dent In The Copyright Monopoly
Yesterday, the Legal Affairs Committee in the European Parliament voted unanimously to introduce an exception to the copyright monopoly to benefit the public at…
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Keynote in Glasgow: "Why are you here?"
I was invited to keynote at the conference of Pirate Party UK as the election to Scottish Parliament approaches. My focus was to give…
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Swedish MFA Cracking Down On Net
Sweden’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Bildt, has an op-ed piece today in the printed newspaper Expressen where he criticizes some of Sweden’s most…
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Keynote at Internet Society, Frankfurt
I had the honor and the privilege of keynoting at the Internet Society’s INET meeting in Frankfurt this Wednesday. The topic of the day…
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There Will Never Be A Shortage Of "Content"
Lawyers who advocate maximization of the copyright monopoly can sometimes be heard complaining that if the monopoly is abolished or weakened, there will be…
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Congratulations, Piratenpartei Hamburg
Piratenpartei Hamburg performed a feat today. In local state elections, they surpassed two percent with more than 70,000 votes. This is a tremendous feat….
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Swedish Courts Coming To Senses: €200 Filesharing Fine
Swedish courts may be slowly coming to their senses regarding noncommercial violations of the copyright monopoly. In a verdict yesterday, a 26-year-old in Uppsala,…
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History of Copyright, part 7: Hijacked by Pfizer
Toyota struck at the heart of the American soul in the 1970s, and all her politicians started carrying mental “The End Is Nigh” signs….
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Israeli Armed Forces: We Were Behind StuxNet
In a surprise admission today, at the retirement party of the Chief of the Israeli Armed Forces, Gabi Ashkenazi, he celebrated as one of his…
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