Posts Tagged “Pirate Party”
Australia’s Last Chance to Defeat ACTA
by Roderick on January 27, 2012
This article has been published at the ABC. Today we saw thousands take to the streets in Poland in what has become an ongoing protest, the European Parliament’s rapporteur of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement resign in disgust at the ACTA charade, the exclusionary and (…)
Ctrl C + Ctrl V — 5th Largest EU Group Adopts Pirate Perspective
by Roderick on October 8, 2011
In an extremely promising development, and a huge victory{{1}} for the Pirate Party movement, an entire EU Parliamentary group has adopted Pirate principles. The Greens/European Free Alliance, of which Christian Engström, Piratpartiet’s MEP is a member, has listened to the reason (…)
Lack of Transparency & Inclusion Raises Questions About Integrity of Democratic Process
by Roderick on September 13, 2011
On the August 24, The Australian revealed that the Attorney General’s Department was convening meetings with stakeholders — except that it had excluded one very important group. You. The copyright lobby and its many faces and fronts are being (…)
Blog Safely With Pirate.is
by Roderick on April 13, 2011
The Washington Pirate Party has launched ‘pirate.is’ a blogging service not unlike any other, based on Wordpress, with one important distinction — it takes advantage of the legal framework and protections provided by the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative by being (…)
The Future of Copyright
by Roderick on March 1, 2011
At a Blue Sky Conference, Francis Gurry, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) made some very interesting observations and comments, some that inspire hope for change, inspire a move away from maximalism, away from the cloistered policy (…)
So Much For Transparency
by Roderick on September 2, 2010
Euractiv.com reports that the USTO officials responsible for negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) are blocking the EU delegation from publishing the draft agreement online completed after the August round. I can only imagine, based on my experience with DFAT (…)
It really is just a bit of history repeating…
by Roderick on September 1, 2010
A little while ago, Matt Dawes from the Australian Digital Alliance, an NGO whose membership largely consists of libraries and museums, wrote a piece published by IT News discussing the cyclical behaviour of established industry when disruptive technology threatens, or (…)
