Finally catching up on my blog clippings after a week of travel, and I found out that ACT has apparently won the inaugural "Scum of the Day" award from some angry British guy with a blog! I've ordered a case of Cristal for our DC and our Brussels offices in [...]
The European Parliament has a department called “Scientific Technology Options Assessment” or STOA. STOA has recently announced a report on the European patents system, outlining policy options for improving the system. As readers know, patent systems tend to be a controversial issue and theSTOA’s preliminary report was therefore the hotly [...]
To prove that support for strong copyright protection doesn't equate to being in the pocket of the major corporate entertainment industries, I call your attention to an article in the Washington Post last week. The article described how Fox, Virgin and Microsoft had used photos from Internet photo sharing sites [...]
European governments are known for supporting green environmental policies, but it seems that they are now joining ACT's crusade to improve the Tech Environment as well. The Portuguese EU Presidency Forum "Financing Innovation – From Ideas to Market" has adopted the "Estoril Declaration." The goal of this Declaration sounds positively [...]
Paul Krill of Infoworld recently reported on a recent US federal court ruling, which Mark Radcliffe, counsel for the Open Source Initiative, fears “could derail enforcement of open-source licenses altogether” by foreclosing licensors’ ability to get an injunction against license violations. (Quotation to article, not Mark Radcliffe). In this ruling, [...]