OFE is delighted to announce a number of changes in the structure of OFE. Firstly Graham Taylor who as Chairman and CEO of OFE since its formation in 2002 will be retiring as CEO with effect from the 1st October. He will, however, remain Chairman of the OFE Board,…

Leaving users behind and stifling innovation is not the way forward   All hopes were raised when, in July 2014, President Juncker announced the Commission’s plan to modernise the EU copyright framework, an objective reiterated in the December Communication. However, the…

The recent Brexit vote led me – as a Brit – progressively through emotions of surprise, anger and now concern. Apparently, I personally belong to a minority who thought that the UK would be better off seeking to change the EU from within, rather than casting it aside, seeing it as a ‘failed…

In parallel with the public consultation on the revision of the European Interoperability Framework, the Commission has also been running a public consultation on “Sharing and Reuse Guidelines”. Both consultations can be found here….

Jochen Friedrich is  Chair of the OFE Standardisation Task Force and OFA Fellow. This post was originally published on his blog.  The European Commission published today its Communication on “EUROPEAN STANDARDS FOR THE…

Last month, on April 19, the European Commission published, as part of a package of initiatives related to the realisation of the Digital Single Market (DSM)¹, a new eGoverment Action Plan², covering the period 2016 to…

Now that the dust has settled down on the DSM package of announcements it is timely to measure them up against the acid test of ‘leadership’ that I focussed on in my last blogpost. Sorry but its generally a no. That doesn’t mean to say we don’t agree with the…

Thanks for your time, Simonetta! Can you start by briefly introducing yourself as well as the work or the research that you’ve been involved in? Briefly, I have an Italian law degree and a German PhD in the economics of innovation. I’ve been practising law in Milan at an international…

For the past months, OFE has been involved in an intensive research process regarding the various arguments and approaches relating to text and data mining (TDM) in Europe, which culminated with the paper published today, titled “An analytical review of text and…

Andrew Updegrove is a co-founder and partner of the Boston law firm of Gesmer Updegrove LLP and an internationally recognized expert on standard setting and open source organizations and how to form them. He has represented over 70 standard setting, promotional, and advocacy consortia and open source…

In a previous blogpost I related a talk I had given at the ETSI Summit in November when the focus was on how Standards Development Organisations could most sensibly work with Open Source projects, at a time when Open Source has become “ubiquitous”, yet the obstacles around IPR seem to…

OFE together with other 29 signatories, counting trade associations, libraries, community organisations, consumer organisations and more, signed an open letter addressed to the Commission. In this letter we are asking for a Digital Single Market enabling…