By wildly overstating its claims on many countries, the US has undermined its credibility and confirmed criticisms that the report lacks reliability or objective analysis.

The researchers claim that a market economy, where inventors buy and sell shares of the key elements of their discoveries, beats the winner-takes-all patent system, especially in terms of the number of beneficiaries, levels of collaboration and pace of development.

For three centuries, the publishing industry has been working very hard to obscure copyright's true origins, and to promote the myth that it was invented by writers and artists. Even today, they continue to campaign for ever stronger laws against sharing, for international treaties that compel all nations to conform to the copyright policies of the strictest, and most of all to make sure the public never asks exactly who this system is meant to help.

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Computerised records of all 250 million journeys made by individuals in and out of the UK each year will be kept for up to 10 years. The government says the database is essential in the fight against crime, illegal immigration and terrorism.

Nästa generations strider om immaterialrätten kommer att bli av en helt annan kaliber än de som rasar nu. Forskare hävdar att upphovsrätt och patent i framtiden riskerar att kriminalisera lärandet och att fördelarna är mycket mindre än skadorna de kan orsaka.

Cities around the world are finding better ways for their citizens to get around.

Next month, New Zealand is scheduled to implement Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act. The controversial act provides ‘Guilt Upon Accusation’, which means that if a file-sharer is simply accused of copyright infringement, they are immediately guilty. The punishment - summary Internet disconnection.

Remote searches of suspect computers will form part of an EU plan to tackle hi-tech crime.

Revolutionen inställd. Vladimir Lenin och Che Guevara skulle fnysa åt dagens socialistiska kämpar. Varken i KPML(r):s klassiska lokal i Göteborg eller i Evo Morales Bolivia hörs det något vapenskarammel längre.