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The World Of Open Textbooks Just Became A Little More Crowded -- And A Little More Open
Open e-textbooks are hardly new: Techdirt has been reporting on the pioneer in this market, Flat World Knowledge, for several years now. But a new...
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Dutch Government: Make European Copyright Exceptions More Flexible
Well, here's a turn-up for the books. At a time when the European Commission is insisting that the copyright ratchet should be tightened up a few...
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Debunking The EU Commission's 'Myths About ACTA'
Crossposted from Computerworld UK where it was originally split into two separate articles.
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'The Economist' And 'Financial Times' Already Writing Off ACTA As Dead
In the last few days, we've seen an extraordinary wave of announcements by governments in Europe, particularly its eastern part, that they would not...
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Do The Differences Between Software Piracy And Media Piracy Matter?
Danah Boyd (or danah boyd as she prefers to be called) is widely recognized as an authority on privacy, identity and social networks. A couple of...
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Publishing 2.0: Content Is Marketing, Profits Come From The Packaging
Publishers find themselves confronted by a difficult dilemma at the moment. On the one hand, they might want e-books to succeed, because digital...
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USPTO Says Copies Of Academic Articles Submitted As Prior Art Are Covered By Fair Use
With all the heat that publishers are starting to feel from the academic community, you might have thought that they'd avoid upsetting anyone else....
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We Don't Have A 'Wild West' Internet Now, But We Will If SOPA Or Similar Is Passed
Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, has the sad distinction of being in the vanguard when it comes to really bad ideas concerning the Internet....
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What The Curebit Saga Teaches Us About Copyright, Plagiarism And Reputation
The startup Curebit brought something of a firestorm down on its head recently. Here's how VentureBeat broke the story:
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Can Facebook Really Bring About A More Peer-to-Peer, Bottom-Up World?
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to shareholders included in Facebook's IPO filing contains a pretty bold vision for Facebook to not just connect people and...
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Is The US Meddling In Polish ACTA Voting?
With the immediate threat from SOPA/PIPA on hold, people have started to turn their attention to the long-running saga of ACTA. While it was being...
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If Politicians Pushing SOPA/PIPA Want To Create Jobs, They Should Support The Internet -- And Stop Treating Copyright Companies As Special
A key element of the political rhetoric around SOPA/PIPA was the idea that it was about jobs, and that jobs are so critical in the current economic...
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Why Piracy Is Indispensable For The Survival Of Our Culture
Last Year Techdirt wrote about the case of the huge collection of historic jazz recordings that had been acquired by the US National Jazz Museum. The...
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Estonia Next In Line To Receive US 'Encouragement' To Adopt Harsher Anti-Piracy Laws
Numerous Wikileaks cables have highlighted the pressure that the US has brought to bear on several foreign governments behind closed doors in an...
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iPhone Data Debunks Recording Industry's Report On How French Three Strikes Law Increased Sales
The annual Digital Music Report (pdf) of the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is a curiously conflicted production. On...
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The End Of The Global Internet? Google's Blogger Starts Using Country-Specific Domains To Permit Local Censorship
Twitter has taken quite a lot of heat for putting in place the capability to block tweets on a geographical basis. This begins to look a little...
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Another Reason We Need Open Government Data: To Avoid Information Asymmetries
Can the future aggregate actions of people be predicted from relevant sets of data that describe them? That, of course, is what Isaac Asimov's...
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Will Academics' Boycott Of Elsevier Be The Tipping Point For Open Access -- Or Another Embarrassing Flop?
It's now widely recognized that the extreme demands of SOPA/PIPA catalyzed a new activism within the Net world, epitomized by the blackout effected by...
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FIFA Orders Brazil To Overturn Ban On Selling Beer At World Cup Matches
One of the recurrent themes on Techdirt is the sense of entitlement the owners of various kinds of monopolies display, and their common belief that...
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Newzbin Lawyer Struck Off For Posting Insulting Tweets During Case -- & Failing To Declare He Owned The Company He Defended
Well, this one's bizarre. Back in March 2010 we wrote about the UK Usenet aggregator Newzbin being found liable for the copyright infringment of its...
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