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Vote for a bill

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Douglas Carswell MP wants your help deciding which bill to put forward as his private members bill, so head on over to Guido’s to cast your vote. The options are: “1. Bloggers Freedom Bill: the law on copyright and libel developed in an age when very few people ever published anything. Today, millions of people blog and tweet. The law needs to reflect this. While other people’s intellectual property needs to be safeguarded, and people need protection from libel, this law would provide bloggers and tweeters with some protection against being sued, with a 48 hour period of grace before … Continue reading →

One step forward two steps back

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I can see blue sky out the window and it’s a bank holiday so really I should have better things to be doing than writing a blog, but there you go. First off a slight update it seems that a rare bout of good sense briefly inflicted the EU and all three committees rejected ACTA, though that doesn’t actually kill it out right. Of course the European Parliament may decide to go ahead with it in June anyway, after all we’ve already ratified it. Which does make me wonder how many other regulations our politicians blame on the EU we … Continue reading →

ACTA vote tomorrow

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This is terribly late to press for which I apologise but tomorrow (Thursday 31st) MEP’s will vote on ACTA, this has already been rejected by the Dutch government (though possibly just as an electioneering gimmick). Despite my tardiness if you haven’t already done so there is still time to e-mail your MEP. You could even use WriteToThem, which makes it terribly painless. If you’ve not heard of ACTA you may be wondering what the problem is then the OpenRightsGroup* explains it rather well here. But in summary it’s yet another piece of legislation dreamt up between the EU and big … Continue reading →