It is eight years since I last was able to present to a conference organised by ETSI. Then I gave to an audience solely made up of telecoms professionals the good news about the impact that Open Source was likely to have on the market,…

Today OpenForum Europe (OFE) has jointly signed two coalition letters, together with 28 other stakeholders representing civil society, news publishers, consumers and the digital industry. One letter is addressed to vice-president Timmermans, who is…

Only a couple of days after the Commission announced its Roadmap and Inception Impact Assessment for the modernisation of the EU copyright framework, the draft Communication of the Commission was leaked. What was supposed to be a full legislative proposal, became…

Maël Brunet: Hello Tineke. First of all, can you briefly introduce yourself and say a few words about your work and your current research ? Tineke Egyedi: Yes, I’m a researcher on standardisation and do consulting work. I worked at the Delft University of Technology until March and now…

Today the European Parliament adopted new rules to end mobile roaming charges and safeguard open Internet access. This marks the final step in a two-years process that started under the previous Commission. Throughout that process OFE has been…

As had been announced in the Digital Single Market Strategy, the Commission has recently launched a public consultation on “the regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the collaborative economy”….

On October 6^th, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its judgment in response to a request made by the Irish High Court in July 2014 for a preliminary ruling in the case of Maximillian Schrems v Data Protection…

We have closely monitored the debates around the EP’s own initiative report on the review of the EU copyright rules between its draft release last January and the final vote in July. And it was often heard that without stricter copyright, creators will not be able…

This week, the Dutch Government hosted the 11th ODF Plugfest in The Hague. Nothing remarkable about that, you might say, but what it illustrated was just how strong the ‘community effect’ can be within IT, and how, if channelled effectively, can boost the long term opportunity and success. Professor Henry…