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ACTA Update IV
by Glyn Moody
This is a continuation of my previous post examining the European Commission's attempt to dispel what it calls ten "myths" about ACTA [.pdf]. I'm commenting only on the most egregious attempts by the Commission to talk away the issues -...
February 9, 2012 2:30 PM Read Full Post
ACTA Update III
by Glyn Moody
It's a sign of the European Commission's increasing desperation over ACTA that it has been forced to send out a document entitled "10 Myths About ACTA" [.pdf] that purports to debunk misinformation that is being put around. Unsurprisingly, the EC's...
February 7, 2012 1:48 PM Read Full Post
Official: The White House Loves Open Source
by Glyn Moody
Recently, the White House has adopted a scheme that we Brits have been using for some time now: online petitions. The basic idea is the same: You may use this platform on the White House website to create and sign...
February 6, 2012 10:47 AM Read Full Post
ACTA Update II
by Glyn Moody
Although ACTA is billed as a global treaty, there are only two participants that really matter: the US and the European Union. If either of those dropped out, it would be completely ineffectual. I think the US is unlikely to...
February 2, 2012 5:47 PM Read Full Post
GOV.UK: What Open Source Has Been Waiting For?
by Glyn Moody
I've been writing for what seems decades about the UK government's failure to take advantage of open source. And I've been writing for what is certainly years about its promises to do better. It finally looks as if it is...
February 1, 2012 5:56 PM Read Full Post
ACTA Update I
by Glyn Moody
Anyone who follows me on Twitter or identi.ca, or on Google+ will have noticed something of a crescendo of posts about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) recently. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the immediate threat...
February 1, 2012 4:04 PM Read Full Post
Computing in Schools: The Great Ctrl-Alt-Del
by Glyn Moody
After years of unforgivable inaction, the education world is finally addressing the continuing disgrace that is computer teaching in this country. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the UK Education Secretary Michael Gove's comments on this area, and...
January 25, 2012 2:13 PM Read Full Post
SOPA Stopped: So Back to ACTA
by Glyn Moody
So the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of copyright maximalist legislation, SOPA and PIPA, have been halted in their passage through the US legislative process. Of course, they're not dead, but are sure to return, zombie-like, either as modified versions of the...
January 24, 2012 4:13 PM Read Full Post
Apple's iBooks 2: an Attack on Educational Freedoms
by Glyn Moody
Yesterday, Apple launched its iBooks 2 for iPad - or, as it modestly puts it in the press release, "Apple Reinvents Textbooks": Apple today announced iBooks 2 for iPad, featuring iBooks textbooks, an entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic,...
January 20, 2012 10:23 AM Read Full Post
Orphan Works and the Digital Copyright Exchange
by Glyn Moody
One of the boldest proposals of the Hargreaves Report was the creation of a Digital Copyright Exchange: In order to boost UK firms’ access to transparent, contestable and global digital markets, the UK should establish a cross sectoral Digital Copyright...
January 18, 2012 10:27 AM Read Full Post
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