The European Parliament adopted today its own initiative report on the evaluation of the Copyright Directive (2001/29/EC), with a substantial majority of 445 MEPs (65 voted against and 32 abstained). OpenForum Europe (OFE) welcomes this report and…

The Open Document Format (often abbreviated to ‘ODF’) is an XML-based file format for spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents developed as an Open Standard by OASIS. At OFE we have long been strong believers —and loud advocates — of…

On June 30, the European co-legislators agreed to a provisional deal on the text of a Regulation aimed at guaranteeing open Internet access and eliminating mobile phone roaming charges throughout the EU. The compromise reached on net neutrality will…

UPDATE 23/07/15 *** On 17 July, the British High Court published a supplementary opinion to this judgement, pointing that the Personal Copies for Private Use Regulations are being withdrawn, with…

The long awaited own initiative report of the European Parliament, on the evaluation of the Copyright Directive (2001/29/EC), has passed the vote in JURI committee today, with 23 votes in favour and 2 against. All 30 compromise amendments have been adopted with a rather large majority…

In a vote last Tuesday, Members of the European Parliament overwhelmingly decided to reject the Council’s proposals on the Telecom Single Market. In doing so, they have clearly affirmed that they will not accept the least common denominator proposed by EU Member States on…

Hello Andrew. Can you start by briefly presenting yourself and the research that you are involved in? I am interested in too many things is my usual description, I tend to be very broad in what I do. The core of what I am interested in is usually privacy and surveillance-related matters. More recently…

The Commission published today its long awaited and widely commented Digital Single Market (DSM) Strategy . In its Communication, the Commission underlines the aim to make Europe a more competitive and efficient global player, by laying…

In this new series, we interview the Fellows of OpenForum Academy to talk about their current work, projects and how their research relates to the wider ‘openness agenda’. The first interviewee is Peter-Murray-Rust, a chemist working at the University of Cambridge and interested in…