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ACTA - (ever) more questions 23 Feb 2010 | 10:55 pm
Update II: Recordings now on youtube! Live broadcast finished less than 3 minutes after it started. Update:There was no live broadcast, no real exchange of views and no real answers to questions. I'...
ACTA and CARIFORUM 18 Jan 2010 | 07:05 pm
The EU is about to export verbatim copies of IPRED1 articles to a group of countries called the CARIFORUM States (Belize, Jamaica, Haiti, Suriname etc). At the same time, Sweden's largest telecommunic...
Does ACTA export IPRED1 (and more...)? 11 Jan 2010 | 11:30 am
It is now clear that it is not only the EU-Korea deal which is as directive-like and law-like you can get. The same goes for the currently negotiated so called CETA agreement with Canada. It's a direc...
Acta is not a trade agreement 4 Jan 2010 | 03:37 pm
Here is an agreement regulating trade in bananas. It contains tariffs, quotas, tonnage. Now let's look at the EU-Korea "trade agreement". I does not look like a trade agreement. It looks more like a (...
Freud is free 2 Jan 2010 | 01:46 am
Today Sigmund Freud enters the public domain. Communia and the campaign site Public Domain Day is celebrating. I was struck by the expression "Without any need for prior authorization" on the celebrat...
The ACTA gold standard 26 Dec 2009 | 02:00 pm
Update: The European Ombudsman's answer and first inspection report to FFII's complaint. Inspection of documents carried out on December 8: "[...] as regards the documents classified as "RESTREINT UE"...
Etherpad negotiations 30 Nov 2009 | 08:22 pm
A tv-documentary from the Kyoto negotiations yesterday and waking up today thinking about the parliament's way of working in the light of the existence of etherpad, I thought of proposing another way ...
Patents in Copenhagen 30 Nov 2009 | 02:03 am
Dagens Nyheter reports that Swedish solar cell researchers seem to be caught between a rock and a hard place. On one hand they have the know how to produce cheap electricity in countries without devel...
Security is a tool in the pursuit of freedom 26 Nov 2009 | 01:06 pm
Just a short note on the result of the vote on the Stockholm Program Resolution. We started off negotiations with two quotes from the Challenge Report (links below) about two weeks ago: "The EU is ro...
How to organise a queue 25 Nov 2009 | 03:34 am
Standard solution to queuing problems in St Josse, Brussels To prioritise traffic on the internet can be seen as a way to organise a queue in case there is more demand than the pipes can take. Then o...