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The UK Wants A Trade Deal With India That Would Boost The A... Profits Of Big Pharma, And Cause Millions Of People To Sicken
Although trade deals are nominally about, well, trade, Techdirt readers know that they have become an important way to force through changes in areas like copyright and patents without any meanin...
From The Revolt Against SOPA To The EU's Upload Filters
Register now for TODAY’s online event featuring Rep. Zoe Lofgren » From the European perspective, the revolt against SOPA that happened 10 years ago is a somewhat distant memory. During the pa...
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/01/26/revolt-against-sopa-to-eus-upload-filters/
European Citizens: You Stopped ACTA, But The New Copyright Directive Is Much, Much Worse: Speak Up
It’s understandable that people are getting fatigued from all the various attacks on the internet, but as I’ve noted recently, one of the biggest threats to our open internet is the incredibl...
Dan Bull's 'Death To ACTA' Video Silenced After Claim From Rapper Who Used The Same Sample
Back in 2010 we wrote about rapper Dan Bull’s excellent “Death to ACTA” song and video, which is a parody of Jay-Z’s “Death of Autotune.” In 2011, we further wrote about the MP3 of th...
If We're Going To Fix Copyright, We Need Much More Transparency
Glyn already covered European Parliament Member (and the EU Parliament’s only Pirate Party representative) Julia Reda’s report on copyright reform in the EU. However, for Day 3 of Copyright W...
https://www.techdirt.com/2015/01/22/if-were-going-to-fix-copyright-we-need-much-more-transparency/
EU-Canada Trade Agreement May Be Incompatible With EU Law
Just as it did with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Germany is leading the fight against both TAFTA/TTIP and the recently-concluded trade agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA...
https://www.techdirt.com/2014/12/19/eu-canada-trade-agreement-may-be-incompatible-with-eu-law/
Street Demonstrations In 21 European Countries Held To Protest Against TAFTA/TTIP; Another ACTA Revolt Brewing?
Last month, the European Commission refused to accept a request to allow an official EU-wide petition called a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to take place. This was a curiously maladroit ...
EU Council Presidency Presents Paper On Tackling Copyright Infringement That's Little More Than ACTA Reheated
The political machine of the European Union is undergoing a major makeover. Elections recently took place for Members of the European Parliament, bringing in many new faces. Later this year, a ne...
More Monopoly Madness: UK Criminalizes The Copying Of Registered Designs
One of the reasons that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was opposed and defeated in 2012 was that it included an attempt to require criminal sanctions for “willful trademark coun...
Mexican Activists' Stop-ACTA Victory: 'We Did It First, And We Did It Better'
The most important development in copyright policy in the 21st century has undoubtedly been the mass politicization of copyright. In the common telling, the 2012 US SOPA and European anti-ACTA pr...