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Open-source group seeks reversal of 'junk patent'
News It said the company should "give up its rights to enforce not only this patent, but any patent we may ever come with in the future for any use of open-source, whether by commercial or non-commercial" organisations, Small said.
[December 1, 2006, 7:40]
Open Rights and digital freedom
News A digital-rights organisation, Open Rights Group (ORG), has been formed to tackle European and British legislation which could threaten digital and civil freedoms. ORG will serve as a hub for other cyber-rights groups campaigning on similar digital...
[September 12, 2005, 17:20]
Digital rights group slams e-voting
News According to the Open Rights Group (ORG), the technology "threatens the integrity of our elections". Digital rights activists have attacked the UK government over its plan to trial e-voting in the upcoming local elections.
[January 31, 2007, 12:15]
Digital rights group: E-voting fit only for X Factor
News The Open Rights Group has criticised the government for standing by its plans to continue pilots for electronic voting and counting in England and Wales. The Open Rights Group (ORG), a digital rights advocacy group, issued a statement on Tuesday...
[November 14, 2007, 14:19]
Digital rights group hits support milestone
News A thousand people have backed the Open Rights Group, a recently formed collective of digital rights campaigners, which may be a sign of growing public concern about the improper use of data. The Open Rights Group announced on Thursday that it has...
[November 29, 2005, 17:05]
Teacamp
Blog Comment @Roger: The Open Rights Group is currently working on their report into the 2008 elections, having had a team of officially-accredited elections observers in the electronic count centres and in polling stations during election day.
[June 23, 2008, 14:30]
This is not good...
Talkback """"Campaigners at the Open Rights Group said they will be making an official complaint about the new proposals, which closely followed a meeting between Lord Mandelson and film and music tycoon David Geffen.
[August 26, 2009, 9:04]
Report gives thumbs down to e-voting
News The Open Rights Group published a report on Wednesday that includes scathing criticisms of the way e-voting and e-counting proceeded at a number of sites during the local government elections last month.
[June 22, 2007, 9:16]
McBride reaches for rhetoric in Linux battle
News SCO Group chief executive Darl McBride is invoking the Founding Fathers in his company's battle over Unix intellectual property rights. He also said that the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which is aimed at protecting...
[December 8, 2003, 13:45]
Opposition mounts against P2P disconnection plan
News The open letter was sent to The Times on Thursday by the chiefs of TalkTalk, BT and Orange, as well as representatives of the Open Rights Group and the consumer choice organisations Which? The letter's signatories — TalkTalk's Charles Dunstone, BT...
[September 4, 2009, 17:40]
Anti-DRM day announced
News Media companies should be embracing the new possibilities that digital technology brings," said Dr Ian Brown, an expert for the Open Rights Group and academic working at UCL and the Cambridge-MIT Insitute, on Friday.
[September 1, 2006, 13:55]
Apple in court over Unix trademark
News As legal battles heat up over who owns the rights to the Unix operating system, another dispute has been quietly simmering over the rights to the Unix name itself. Apple Computer is being sued by The Open Group, the San Francisco company that...
[June 12, 2003, 8:29]
Teacamp
Blog I also spoke to Glynn from the Open Rights Group (the UK version of the Electronic Frontier Foundation) about the shortcomings and pitfalls of electronic voting. Apparently the London mayoral elections used electronic vote counting, and there was...
[June 19, 2008, 17:19]
MPEG-4 on road to rights management
News A streaming-media consortium set a schedule this week for finalising technical specs for MPEG-4 security and rights management -- components that are key to the open standard's adoption among content owners.
[January 29, 2003, 7:46]
DRM is failing, MPs told
News Thursday's hearing also included contributions from the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure. DRM has many problems," said Suw Charman, executive director of the Open Rights Group, which campaigns against...
[February 2, 2006, 16:25]
Entertainment industry 'trying to hijack data retention directive'
News The Open Rights Group, a UK digital rights organisation, has been angered by CMBA's tactics. As ill-conceived as the original legislation was, this should never be used to fight the music and film industries' battles at the expense of the taxpayer...
[November 24, 2005, 17:00]
Government rejects calls for DRM ban
News In the UK, the Open Rights Group campaigns against technologies such as DRM, which it believes can undermine the rights of users. Becky Hogge, executive director at the Open Rights Group, believes that public awareness of the issues surrounding DRM...
[February 20, 2007, 12:47]
British Library calls for digital copyright action
News Digital civil rights organisation the Open Rights Group said it "whole-heartedly supported" the British Library's call for a clarification of copyright law. One of the key problems is that the limitations and exceptions to copyright law are being...
[September 25, 2006, 13:50]
Open-source gurus slam SCO
News So if that same IBM code shows up in Linux, then SCO has zero rights to that code (even though it is line-for-line identical) as it exists in Linux -- because that's a different work than the one that they hold the collective copyright to.
[August 1, 2003, 9:10]
Hollywood homes in on student swappers
News Fred von Lohmann, an attorney with the Internet consumer rights group known as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said ACNS is an interesting concept but doubted that it will solve the problem of campus piracy.
[April 19, 2004, 14:45]
