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Arriva Wikitalia, piattaforma per la democrazia
by Giuseppe Futia Oct. 25, 2011

Oct. 25, 2011

*Arriva Wikitalia, piattaforma per la democrazia* http://www.wikitalia.it/ Facciamo volentieri da cassa di risonanza all'annuncio di Wikitalia: "Wikitalia è l'iniziativa di un gruppo di appassionati di web e democrazia, per realizzare una piattaforma da mettere gratuitamente a disposizione delle città italiane dove sviluppare degli strumenti in open source che garantiscano la trasparenza della politica, consentano il riutilizzo dei dati pubblici e favoriscano la partecipazione dei cittadini. I modelli a cui ci ispiriamo sono MySociety <http://www.mysociety.org/> in Gran Bretagna e CodeforAmerica <http://codeforamerica.org/> negli Stati Uniti. Wikitalia si rivolge a tutti. In prima battuta ai sindaci e alle loro amministrazioni, affinché decidano di far propri la filosofia e gli strumenti dell'Open Government: Firenze, Torino e Matera sono i primi comuni dove sperimenteremo alcuni applicativi. Poi ci rivolgiamo agli sviluppatori che sono invitati a contribuire al successo della iniziativa: ad ogni città che aderisce vorremmo assegnare due 'civic hackers' per un anno con una borsa". *Ufficio Stampa* * Centro NEXA su Internet & Società:* Giuseppe Futia NEXA Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica Tel. +39 333 1103017

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[Fwd: [Creis _Terminal] Facebook : la mémoire cachée]
by mariella.berra＠unito.it Oct. 24, 2011

Oct. 24, 2011

Molto interessante Ciao Mariella ------------------ Messaggio originale ------------------- Oggetto: [Creis_Terminal] Facebook : la mémoire cachée Da: "Chantal ENGUEHARD" <chantal.enguehard(a)univ-nantes.fr> Data: Lun, 24 Ottobre 2011, 1:29 pm A: creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.ecrans.fr/Facebook-la-memoire-cachee,13424.html Chantal Enguehard LINA - UMR CNRS 6241 2, rue de la Houssinière BP 92208 44322 Nantes Cedex 03 France téléphone : 02 51 12 58 55 télécopie : 02 51 12 58 12 http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/info/perso/permanents/enguehard/ _______________________________________________ Creis_terminal mailing list Creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org https://listes.globenet.org/listinfo/creis_terminal

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[NEXA]Diritto d’autore, tutti contro tutti : Dalla Rete
by vale.it.newsletters＠gmail.com Oct. 24, 2011

Oct. 24, 2011

http://dallarete.blog.rainews24.it/2011/10/22/diritto-dautore-tutti-contro-…

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Fwd: Digital Public Library of America Announces $5 Million in Funding and Collaboration with Europeana
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 21, 2011

Oct. 21, 2011

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Digital Public Library of America Announces $5 Million in Funding and Collaboration with Europeana Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:58:04 -0400 From: Amar Ashar <ashar(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu> Reply-To: press-report-list(a)eon.law.harvard.edu,Amar Ashar <ashar(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu> To: press-report-list(a)eon.law.harvard.edu Good morning, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to announce two exciting news items about the Digital Public Library of America: *[1] Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund Announce Funding for the Digital Public Library of America* The Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund today announced a major contribution for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) in the form of combined $5 million in funding. The DPLA Steering Committee is leading the first concrete steps toward the realization of a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all. Announcement: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7158 *[2] Digital Public Library of America and Europeana Announce Collaboration* Two major digital library networks have reached an agreement to collaborate in ways that will make a large part of the world's cultural heritage available to a large part of the world's population. The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which will provide access to digital collections from libraries, museums, and archives in the United States, announced today that it will design its technical structure in a way to promote interoperability with that of Europeana, which has developed a similar system to link the major libraries, museums, and archives of Europe. Announcement: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7159 The full announcements and more information can be found below and on the Digital Public Library of America's website: http://dp.la/ And, as always, we welcome your feedback. Amar Ashar Berkman Center for Internet & Society Harvard University = = = *Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund Announce Funding for the Digital Public Library of America* <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7158> *Washington, DC*---The Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund today announced a major contribution for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) in the form of combined $5 million in funding. The DPLA Steering Committee is leading the first concrete steps toward the realization of a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all. Doron Weber, Vice President, Programs at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Peter Baldwin, Chair of the Donor Board at the Arcadia Fund, made the announcement at the DPLA plenary meeting today in Washington, DC. The funding---split equally between Sloan and Arcadia---will support an intense two-year grassroots process to build a realistic and detailed workplan for a national digital library, the development of a functional technical prototype, and targeted content digitization efforts. Sloan has previously committed one million dollars towards the establishment of a DPLA Secretariat at the Berkman Center and to support the legal workstream of the DPLA initiative by developing solutions to copyright law obstacles facing public digital library initiatives. "We are delighted to join with the Arcadia Fund in giving the DPLA a major boost towards its intensive, two year effort to create an open, distributed digital public library system," said Weber. "This is a grand vision for a network of comprehensive online resources, tools, and services that will inform, educate, and empower everyone in the United States and eventually link us with the rest of the world. But we cannot do it alone and invite other funders to join us in this historic undertaking." "What Carnegie did for public libraries a century ago, the DPLA could---if successful---accomplish for our era," said Baldwin. "We are delighted to be part of launching that effort." "We are excited to begin work on the DPLA as a full-blown, hard-driving initiative that promises to transform the world of libraries and the way that we meet the information needs of communities in America," said John Palfrey, Chair of the DPLA Steering Committee. "We are deeply grateful to the Sloan Foundation and the Arcadia Fund for their support." The DPLA is a collaborative effort that relies on inputs from a diverse range of stakeholders and community members. Those interested in getting involved can learn more about the project at http://dp.la. ### *About the Digital Public Library of America* The DPLA Steering Committee is leading the first concrete steps toward the realization of a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all. This impact-oriented research effort unites leaders from all types of libraries, museums, and archives with educators, industry, and government to define the vision for a digital library in service of the American public. The DPLA Secretariat is located at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; the Steering Committee comprises library and foundation leaders across the nation. More information can be found at http://dp.la. *About the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation* The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, founded in 1934, makes grants for research and education in science, technology and economic performance. A major goal of Sloan's program in digital information technology and the dissemination of knowledge is to foster public access to information and knowledge for the benefit of all. To this end, Sloan has previously supported the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, LYRASIS, Wikipedia, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Boston Library Consortium, and the Espresso Book Machine. More information can be found at http://sloan.org. *About the Arcadia Fund* Arcadia's mission is to protect endangered culture and nature. It works to document near extinct languages, protect rare historical archives, and to preserve ecosystems and environments threatened with extinction. Arcadia has been heavily involved with digitization projects as well, in conjunction with Harvard, UCLA, the Israel National Library and the Hill Foundation. More information can be found at http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/. *Contact:* Rebekah Heacock Project Coordinator Berkman Center for Internet & Society rheacock(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu <mailto:rheacock@cyber.law.harvard.edu> = = = * Digital Public Library of America and Europeana Announce Collaboration* <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7159> *Washington, DC*---Two major digital library networks have reached an agreement to collaborate in ways that will make a large part of the world's cultural heritage available to a large part of the world's population. The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which will provide access to digital collections from libraries, museums, and archives in the United States, announced today that it will design its technical structure in a way to promote interoperability with that of Europeana, which has developed a similar system to link the major libraries, museums, and archives of Europe. Robert Darnton, a DPLA Steering Committee member and University Librarian at Harvard, said, "The association between the DPLA and Europeana means that users everywhere will eventually have access to the combined riches of the two systems at a single click. The aggregated databases will include many millions of books, pamphlets, newspapers, manuscripts, images, recordings, videos, and other materials in many formats." Jill Cousins, Executive Director of Europeana, welcomed the agreement, saying that "Europeana was designed to be open and interoperable, and to be able to collaborate with the DPLA is a validation of that aim. By this combined effort on two continents, Europeana and the DPLA hope to promote the creation of a global network with partners from around the world." Another outcome of this collaboration will be a virtual exhibition about the migration of Europeans to America. The DPLA and Europeana will demonstrate the potential of their combined collections by digitizing and making freely available material about the journey from the Old World to the New. This pilot project will include text and images about the experience of the uprooted as they abandoned their homes to seek a new life thousands of miles across a treacherous ocean. Letters, photographs, and official records open up unfamiliar views into the harsh world inhabited by Europeans from the shtetl communities of Russia to the peasant villages of Ireland. And equally vivid testimonies illustrate the culture shock and hard lot of the immigrants after their arrival. Everyone in the United States, including Amerindians, descends from immigrants, and nearly everyone in Europe has some connection with migration, either within Europe itself or across the ocean. All will be invited to stroll digitally through this rich exhibition. *A Statement of Common Principles: DPLA-Europeana* The Digital Public Library of America and Europeana share a common goal: to make the riches of libraries, museums, and archives available, free of charge, to everyone in the world. They will be guided in this mission by the following principles. 1. They will make their systems and data interoperable to the greatest possible extent. 2. They will promote open access to the greatest possible extent through joint existing and new policies concerning content, data, and metadata. 3. They will collaborate regularly in developing specific aspects of their systems, beginning with: * an interoperable data model * a shared source code * cooperative collection building. *About the Digital Public Library of America* The DPLA Steering Committee is leading the first concrete steps toward the realization of a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all. This impact-oriented research effort unites leaders from all types of libraries, museums, and archives with educators, industry, and government to define the vision for a digital library in service of the American public. The DPLA Secretariat is located at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; the Steering Committee comprises library and foundation leaders across the nation. More information can be found at http://dp.la. *About Europeana* Europeana brings together the digitized content of Europe's galleries, libraries, museums, archives and audiovisual collections. Currently Europeana gives integrated access to 20 million books, films, paintings, museum objects and archival documents from some 1500 content providers. The content is drawn from every European member state and the interface is in 27 European languages. Europeana receives its main funding from the European Commission. More information can be found at http://www.europeana.eu/portal/. *Contact:* Rebekah Heacock Project Coordinator Berkman Center for Internet & Society rheacock(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu <mailto:rheacock@cyber.law.harvard.edu> Jonathan Purday Senior Communications Advisor Europeana jonathan.purday(a)bl.uk <mailto:jonathan.purday@bl.uk>

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Re: [nexa] NY Times: "Amazon's Silk Browser Plays Another Role"
by Paolo Brini Oct. 21, 2011

Oct. 21, 2011

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[NEXA]Velocità.
by vale.it.newsletters＠gmail.com Oct. 20, 2011

Oct. 20, 2011

Tanto per renderci conto della velocità con cui i wikipediani aggiornano alcuni contenuti: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheddafi#Guerra_civile_del_2011.2C_la_cattura_… V

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Repubblica: ""Facebook rispetti la legge europea", La sfida di tre studenti per la privacy"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 20, 2011

Oct. 20, 2011

DIRITTI DIGITALI "Facebook rispetti la legge europea" La sfida di tre studenti per la privacy La commissione per la protezione dei dati in Irlanda ha iniziato un procedimento contro il social network. Sul tavolo alcuni comportamenti che sembrano violare le direttive Ue in materia di informazioni personali. Un processo che parte dalla segnalazione di un ragazzo di Vienna /di FRANCESCA SIRONI/ DAVIDE contro Golia. Un ventiquattrenne austriaco contro il più importante social network del mondo. E' la storia di "Europe versus Facebook" il progetto in difesa della privacy lanciato da Max Schrems, studente di legge a Vienna. La storia nasce, ancora una volta, un po' per caso un po' per talento e intuito. Mentre si trovava negli Stati Uniti per studio, Max entrò in contatto con un ragazzo che lavorava nella compagnia di Palo Alto. Parlando con lui scoprì che tutti gli utenti di Facebook che non sono residenti negli Usa o in Canada (circa il 70% del totale) fanno riferimento alla sede irlandese del colosso. Da bravo studente di legge, Schrems si rende conto che stando a Dublino, Facebook deve far riferimento alle leggi irlandesi in materia di privacy, ben più rigide e precise di quelle americane. Inizia così la sua piccola campagna a fronte di 22 violazioni che individua nel comportamento del social network, accolte, il 24 agosto 2011, dalla DPC (Data Protection Commissioner) irlandese. [...] Continua qui: http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2011/10/19/news/facebook_rispetti_la_le…

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Fwd: [fcf_discussion] Net Neutrality Resolution Adopted in EU Parliament
by J.C. De Martin Oct. 20, 2011

Oct. 20, 2011

Begin forwarded message: > From: La Quadrature du Net <jz(a)laquadrature.net> > Date: 20 ottobre 2011 05:20:38 GMT-04:00 > To: fcforum_discussion(a)list.fcforum.net > Subject: [fcf_discussion] Net Neutrality Resolution Adopted in EU Parliament > Reply-To: fcforum_discussion(a)list.fcforum.net > > La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release > > Permanent link: http://www.laquadrature.net/en/net-neutrality-resolution-adopted-in-eu-parl… > > > Net Neutrality Resolution Adopted in EU Parliament > > > > *** Paris, October 20th, 2011 — The “Industry” Committee of the EU Parliament unanimously adopted a resolution on Net neutrality. Through this vote asking the European Commission to promptly assess the need for further legislative action, the Parliament is taking a strong stance in favour of Net neutrality. Pressure now increases on EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes, who may soon be forced to break away with her failed “wait and see” approach and take action. *** > > The resolution unanimously adopted by the Industry (ITRE) committee of the EU Parliament, which has been fiercely negotiated [1], is overall a positive text. It commits the EU Parliament to key issues: > > * The text is a strong political statement in favour of Net neutrality. It brings a useful definition of Net neutrality and of the network management policies that are detrimental to the users' freedoms and to competition [2]. > > * The resolution asks the Commission to move past its failed “wait-and-see” approach by assessing the need for further regulation on Net neutrality, within 6 months of EU telecoms regulators (BEREC) releasing their study on the discriminatory practices of ISPs [3]. > > However, the resolution falls short of asking for immediate legislative action to protect Net neutrality and for sanctions against Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who restrict access to the Internet. It also includes a loophole [4], which risks being interpreted as accepting such restrictions on mobile Internet on the pretext of congestion [5]. > > “While rather weak, the adopted resolution is a political commitment from the European Parliament in favour of Net neutrality, and aims to prevent telecom operators from restricting Internet access. Pressure is increasing on Commissioner Neelie Kroes and the EU telecoms regulators to come up with further legislation. Mrs Kroes must break away from her 'wait and see' approach and take action to effectively protect competition, innovation as well as citizens' freedom of expression and privacy online.", says Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesperson for La Quadrature du Net. > > The text adopted today in the ITRE committee vote will now move to be adopted in plenary without the possibility of further amendments, in a vote scheduled for late-November. > > > * References * > > 1. http://www.laquadrature.net/en/finalization-of-eu-parliaments-weak-net-neut… > > 2. Compromise amendment 8 "calls on the Commission consequently to guard that Internet Service Providers do not block, discriminate against, impair, or degrade the ability of any person to use a service to access, use, send, post, receive, or offer any content, application, or service of their choice irrespective of source or target". https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Network_Neutrality_resolution_amendments#… > > 3. Release of the Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications' (BEREC) study on Internet traffic management practice is expected for February 2012. > > 4. http://www.laquadrature.net/en/major-loophole-remains-in-net-neutrality-res… > > 5. See paragraph 7 of the resolution, as amended by compromise amendment 10: https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Network_Neutrality_resolution_amendments#… > > > > ** About la Quadrature du Net ** > > > La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group that promotes the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. More specifically, it advocates for the adaptation of French and European legislations to respect the founding principles of the Internet, most notably the free circulation of knowledge. > > In addition to its advocacy work, the group also aims to foster a better understanding of legislative processes among citizens. Through specific and pertinent information and tools, La Quadrature du Net hopes to encourage citizens' participation in the public debate on rights and freedoms in the digital age. > > La Quadrature du Net is supported by French, European and international NGOs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Open Society Institute and Privacy International. > > List of supporting organisations: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/they-support-la-quadrature-du-net > > > ** Press contact and press room ** > > Jérémie Zimmermann, jz(a)laquadrature.net, +33 (0)615 940 675 > > http://www.laquadrature.net/en/press-room > > > > ----- > +info http://list.fcforum.net/wws/info/fcforum_discussion > ----

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Spot and Web: "VIZI PUBBLICITARI-Il Giurì blocca SIAE"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 20, 2011

Oct. 20, 2011

VIZI PUBBLICITARI-Il Giurì blocca SIAE Pubblicato il 19 ottobre 2011 <http://www.spotandweb.it/news/7704/vizi-pubblicitari-il-giuri-blocca-siae.h…> da admin <http://www.spotandweb.it/news/author/admin> *di Federico Unnia* Scorretta la pubblicità istituzionale sul bollino Stop del Giurì al messaggio diffuso dalla Siae in cui si affermava "Copia privata: piena legittimità dell'operato SIAE", facendosi riferimento alla sentenza della Corte di Giustizia europea del 21/10/2010, concernente l'ambito dei diritti d'autore, e in particolare la materia del cd. "compenso per copia privata", oggetto di numerose controversie dovute a una discrasia di fondo tra normativa italiana vigente e precetti comunitari. Lo ha stabilito il Giurì di autodisciplina pubblicitaria accogliendo il ricorso presentato da ASMI -- Associazione Supporti e Sistemi Multimediali Italiana, Verbatim Italia, Imation e Datamatic. Read more: http://www.spotandweb.it/news/7704/vizi-pubblicitari-il-giuri-blocca-siae.h…

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Fwd: [A2k] European Parliament legal service confirms: ACTA may or may not be legal
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 19, 2011

Oct. 19, 2011

Begin forwarded message: > From: Ante <ante(a)ffii.org> > Date: 19 ottobre 2011 15:40:10 GMT-04:00 > To: a2k discuss list <a2k(a)lists.keionline.org> > Subject: [A2k] European Parliament legal service confirms: ACTA may or may not be legal > Reply-To: ante(a)ffii.org > > European Parliament legal service confirms: ACTA may or may not be legal > 19 October, 2011 > > http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number9.20/acta-ep-legal-service-opinion > > Intellectual Property Enforcement > > Several weeks ago, the International Trade Committee of the European > Parliament asked for an opinion from the Parliament's internal legal service > regarding ACTA's legality and whether or not documents must be made public. At > the end of last week, the confidential response from the Legal Service was > delivered. The result is that the lawyers believe that ACTA may indeed be, or > possibly may not be, legal and in line with the existing legal framework of > the European Union. > > In response to the question about whether ACTA is in line with existing EU > legal provisions, the Legal Service explains that the text is open to > interpretation but, on the face of it, the agreement appears to be in line > with current EU law. Of course, if the interpretations of the other > negotiating parties are different from those which the Legal Service has > guessed at, then ACTA may, indeed, not be legal after all. > > Asked whether the preparatory documents of the Agreement must legally be > published, the Legal Service is very precise: there is no obligation under > international law to publish preparatory documents. They accept that > preparatory documents may be used to interpret unclear agreements and that > parts of ACTA are unclear. However, they helpfully point out that, as long as > the documents are not made public by any of the negotiating partners, they > cannot be used to assign meaning to the unclear sections of the text. The > Legal Service chooses not to address the wisdom of adopting an international > agreement, the meaning of which is likely to change if any of the negotiating > partners subsequently chooses to publish documents in order to "prove" that > its interpretation of the text is the correct one. > > The only minor point of concern in this context is that the European > Parliament has already published the leaked text of the digital chapter (which > refers to private companies unilaterally cutting citizens' Internet access) on > its own website. This minor point means that the European Parliament has > already shown that ACTA (by promoting lawless sanctions by private companies > against citizens and their right to freedom of expression and due process) is > in clear and unequivocal breach of the Treaty on European Union, which > requires the Union to support democracy and the rule of law in its > international relations. > > In the meantime, the Commission has provided a rather unexpected answer to a > priority written question on the meaning of the previously unheard-of > "fundamental principle" of "fair process" that is referred to in ACTA. The > Commission does not seek to argue that the "fundamental principle" is a > fundamental principle at all. Instead, it simply explains that the meaning of > the term "fair process" can be found in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects > of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) of the World Intellectual Property > Association which... contains no reference whatsoever to "fair process". > > The Commission expresses the hope and assumption that this is what the other > ACTA negotiating partners also understood. In short, the "fundamental > principle" is not a "fundamental principle" and its meaning is, at best, an > educated guess on the part of the Commission. > > Parliamentary question > http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=WQ&reference=P-... > > Parliament's leak of ACTA digital chapter > http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/d-us/dv/sup... > > Backup of Parliament's leak > http://www.edri.org/files/acta_disconnection.pdf (see footnote 6) > > FFII requests European Parliament’s Legal Services’ opinion on ACTA > (15.10.2011) > http://acta.ffii.org/?p=833 > > (contribution by Joe McNamee - EDRi) > > _______________________________________________ > A2k mailing list > A2k(a)lists.keionline.org > http://lists.keionline.org/mailman/listinfo/a2k_lists.keionline.org

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