Early last year the Dutch government (the ministry for Economic Affairs, the Justice Department and the ministry for Education Culture and Science to be precise) commissioned a research report on the socio economical aspects of (peer 2 peer) file sharing. Last week the research consortium formed by TNO, SEO & IvIR published the final version […]

In July 2008 the European Commission published a Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy. According to the Commission,
The purpose of the Green Paper is to foster a debate on how knowledge for research, science and education can best be disseminated in the online environment. The Green Paper aims to set out a number […]

Professor Bernt Hugenholtz the director of the Institute for Information Law (IVIR) at the University in Amsterdam (and Legal project Lead for Creative Commons Netherlands) has written an open letter to the president of the European Commission, Manuel Barroso in which he is expressing his irritation with the European Commissions policy making process in […]

Encouraging linkages between the creative industries and the wider economy to spur innovation
‘Do the creative industries support innovation in the wider economy?’ Again an interesting question NESTA asks itself, in this research conducted in cooperation with Experian and Oxford Brooks University. Much of the hurray atmosphere created around the creative industries is based […]

A couple of hundred internet adepts, startups, people who are just interested in what the future of the internet has offer have come together in the beautiful old theatre of Tuschinski in Amsterdam for the Next Web Conference. Moderator Scott Rafer welcoms us with and outlines the content of today. Where Google is all about […]