January 2012 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Brevets logiciels : la grande imposture de la propriété intellectuelle
by Paolo Brini Jan. 16, 2012

Jan. 16, 2012

Interessante articolo, ancora sui brevetti sul software: <http://lecercle.lesechos.fr/entreprises-marches/high-tech-medias/informatiq…> Ciao, Paolo

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The Hollywood Reporter: "Why Hollywood Is Losing the Public Relations War on Piracy (Analysis)"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 16, 2012

Jan. 16, 2012

Why Hollywood Is Losing the Public Relations War on Piracy (Analysis) The entertainment industry's biggest mistakes in advocating stronger IP laws. 9:11 AM PST 1/16/2012 by Eriq Gardner On Wednesday, to protest President*Barack Obama*'s decision to withhold unilateral support for a new anti-piracy law, Hollywood has decided to suspend all film productions for a day. In addition, the major TV networks have announced plans to axe all shows that might be critical favorites with small, fervent fan bases, but haven't mustered enough ratings to make a sizeable profit. Of course, none of the above is really happening. For innovative forms of protest, look elsewhere. Instead, Hollywood is taking the derailment of major new intellectual property laws in stride, stressing the positives -- "We welcome the Administration's clear statement that legislation is needed to stop foreign based thieves..." -- and probably ignoring its own failings. What happened? Putting aside the merits of the legislation for a moment, how does an industry that is supposed to earn its bread in churning out compelling messages lose a PR war? How does an industry that's rife with creative individuals appear so stodgy in arguing for reform? And maybe most of all -- how is it that the entertainment and media sectors, which have long been some of the strongest advocates of free speech in the nation, get painted as being the enemy of the First Amendment? [...] Continua qui: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/piracy-SOPA-obama-hollywood-282286

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STUDY: "Data suggests people using pseudonyms leave better comments"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 16, 2012

Jan. 16, 2012

Data suggests people using pseudonyms leave better comments January 15, 2012 | Jennifer Van Grove <http://venturebeat.com/author/jbruin/> Fact or fiction? Online commenters who use their real names will leave higher quality comments. Before you respond with a "well duh, that's a fact" retort, you might want to take a look at new data from online conversation startup Disqus <http://disqus.com/>. The company analyzed nearly 500,000 comments made via its platform and found that the digital denizens using fictitious names, or pseudonyms, are actually responsible for the highest quantity and quality of comments on the web. Disqus determined that 61 percent of its commenters use pseudonyms <http://blog.disqus.com/post/15638234811/pseudonyms>, 35 percent remain anonymous and just 4 percent log in with Facebook to comment with their real identity. "The average commenter using a pseudonym contributed 6.5 times more than anonymous commenters and 4.7 times more than commenters identifying with Facebook," Disqus said. [...] Continua qui: http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/15/pseudonyms-vs-real-names/

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Fw: [Creis_Terminal] Journée du domaine public, jeudi 26 janvier, 18h-21h, Paris
by Mariella Berra Jan. 16, 2012

Jan. 16, 2012

----- Original Message ----- From: "melanie dulong" <melanie.ddr(a)gmail.com> To: "Melanie Dulong" <melanie.ddr(a)gmail.com> Cc: "Melanie Dulong" <melanie.dulong-de-rosnay(a)iscc.cnrs.fr>; "Creative Commons France" <cc-fr(a)lists.ibiblio.org>; "creis" <Creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org>; <dh(a)cru.fr> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 3:50 PM Subject: [Creis_Terminal] Journée du domaine public, jeudi 26 janvier, 18h-21h, Paris Bonjour, Communia, Creative Commons France, l'Institut des Sciences de la Communication du CNRS, l'Open Knowledge Foundation et Wikimedia France vous invitent à célébrer le domaine public jeudi 26 janvier. En présence des membres des organisations partenaires de cet événement, de Philippe Aigrain et Jérémie Zimmermann de la Quadrature du Net, de Lionel Maurel @calimaq et de Tangui Morlier de Regards Citoyens, avec diffusion d'oeuvres du domaine public. Journée du domaine public Jeudi 26 janvier de 18h à 21h Institut des Sciences de la Communication du CNRS (ISCC) Maison des Sciences de la Communication et de l'interdisciplinarité (MSCI) 20, rue Berbier du Mets 75013 Paris Metro Gobelins _______________________________________________ Creis_terminal mailing list Creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org https://listes.globenet.org/listinfo/creis_terminal

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code year
by Angelo Raffaele Meo Jan. 16, 2012

Jan. 16, 2012

carissimi, a proposito di Bloomberg e del code year (http://codeyear.com) di cui abbiamo discusso qui (vedi anche l'interesse di Anna Masera e l'articolo di Bernardo Parrella su La Stampa), consentitemi un'operazione di marketing. All'indirizzo http://linuxdidattica.org/polito/manuale-python-V2.pdf trovate un manualino, assolutamente free, per imparare a programmare in python. E' stato sperimentato con i bimbi di alcune classi della scuola media "Amedeo Peyron" nel laboratorio di informatica. Alla fine del corso i bambini, che si sono divertiti molto, programmavano anche le animazioni, senza usare le librerie precotte di Pygame, ma disegnando l'immagine, programmando il tempo di attesa, e disegnando l'immagine successiva. Il corso è durato circa 30 ore, ma un adulto può imparare in una decina o poco più. Meo

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Joi Ito: "Why we need to stop SOPA and PIPA"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 16, 2012

Jan. 16, 2012

Why we need to stop SOPA and PIPA /»/ <http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2012/01/15/why-we-need-to.html> Jan 15, 2012 - 07:29 UTC <http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2012/01/15/why-we-need-to.html> » I just posted a blog post on the MIT Media Lab blog officially taking a position against SOPA and PIPA. This is a longer blog post co-authored with Ethan Zuckerman <http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2012/01/15/mit-media-lab-opposes-sopa-pi…> describing the issue in more detail. SOPA - the Stop Online Piracy Act <http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3261:> - and a sister bill, PIPA - the Protect IP Act <http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:S.968:> - seek to minimize the dissemination of copyrighted material online by targeting sites that promote and enable the sharing of copyright-protected material, like The Pirate Bay. While this goal may be laudable, entrepreneurs, legal scholars and free speech activists are worried about the consequences of these bills for the architecture of the Internet. At the MIT Media Lab, we share those concerns, and we oppose SOPA and PIPA as threats to innovation on the Internet. To limit access to rogue sites, SOPA and PIPA would: - supersede the "notice and takedown" method of policing for copyrighted material on Internet services and require service providers to police content uploaded by users or prevent users from uploading copyrighted content - require Internet Service Providers to change their DNS servers and block resolution of the domain names of websites in other countries that host illegal copies of content - require search engines to modify their search results to exclude foreign websites that illegally host copyrighted material - order payment processors like PayPal and ad services like Google AdSense to cease doing business with foreign websites that illegally host copyrighted content Major internet companies, including Google, Facebook, Twitter and others, oppose SOPA and PIPA because it changes the liability rules around copyright infringement. Under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998, companies are protected from charges of "contributory infringement" on content uploaded by users, so long as the company follows a procedure and remove infringing content when an alert process is followed. SOPA substantially alters this system, and internet companies worry that without protection from contributory infringement, user-generated content sites like YouTube and Twitter would not have come into existence. The burden of reviewing user-submitted content - every blog post, every video, every image - would be impossible for a company to manage, and companies would have likely stuck with the Web 1.0 model of publishing edited, vetted content instead of moving to a Web 2.0 model where users create the content. Several internet companies took out a full-page ad in the New York Times <http://boingboing.net/2011/11/16/internet-giants-place-full-pag.html> to express their concerns about SOPA and PIPA. Free speech advocates, like the Electronic Frontier Foundation <http://eff.org>, worry that SOPA may provide powerful new tools to silence online speech. Confronted with uncomfortable political speech, repressive governments often seek to silence dissent by reporting content as defamatory, slanderous or copyright infringing, hoping the companies hosting the speech will remove the content. SOPA accelerates the process of copyright removal, with a mechanism that permits copyright holders to obtain court orders against sites hosting copyrighted materials and have those sites rapidly blocked. Scholars of online censorship, likeRebecca MacKinnon at the New America Foundation, worry that SOPA may be popular with the Chinese government <http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/14/opinion/sigal-mackinnon-copyright-interne…> as with the copyright holders who are lobbying for the bill. US law already permits the seizure of domestic domain names that are used for piracy, and the US seized 150 domains in November. SOPA is an attempt to enforce copyright provisions across international borders by prohibiting American internet users from accessing certain foreign websites, like The Pirate Bay. In effect, it would create a firewall to prevent users from accessing prohibited intellectual property, much as China's "great firewall" limits access to politically sensitive information. Harvard legal scholar Lawrence Tribe believes that SOPA is likely unconstitutional, as it can remove constitutionally protected speech without a hearing, a form of "prior restraint". In a memo sent to members of Congress <http://www.net-coalition.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tribe-legis-memo-on…>, he points out that SOPA proposes a system where a single instance of prohibited material could lead to the blocking of thousands of unrelated pieces of content. Internet experts have observed that, beyond being dangerous to innovation, harmful to speech and potentially unconstitutional, SOPA and PIPA are unlikely to work. Countries that block access to prohibited websites by altering the domain name system - as Vietnam does in blocking access to Facebook - find that millions of users are able to circumvent this form of censorship. Millions of Vietnamese users have become Facebook users by entering that site's IP address into their browsers, or configuring their computers to use an uncensored DNS server. It's likely that dedicated US users of The Pirate Bay and other sites will do likewise. Effectively blocking access to sites like The Pirate Bay might require US ISPs to install powerful and expensive "deep packet inspection" software, a cost that would inevitably be passed onto their users. The progress of the bills was slowed in late 2011 by widespread online activism opposing SOPA and PIPA. Hearings are likely to resume early in 2012, and opponents of the bills are facing off against organized lobbying campaigns by the music and film industries who support the legislation. On November 16, 2011, participatory media company Tumblr took strong online action against SOPA, redirecting requests for content on the site to a page that urged users to call US representatives and oppose the bill - their daylong campaign generated more than 87,000 calls to Congress <http://staff.tumblr.com/post/12930076128/a-historic-thing>. Internet community site Reddit plans a site-wide "blackout" on January 18th <http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/stopped-they-must-be-on-this-all.html> to inform users of the potential harms of SOPA and PIPA. Wikipedia is considering doing the same <http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/wikipedias-wales-wants-to…>. In the spirit of these protests, the MIT Media Lab has linked this blogpost to all our site pages, encouraging anyone interested in the work we do to learn more about SOPA and PIPA. More information and resources follow below. We believe that SOPA and PIPA would make it harder for Media Lab students, researchers and faculty to do what we do best: create innovative technologies that anticipate the future by creating it. We hope you'll join with us in opposing these bills and, if you are a US citizen, in letting your representatives know your concerns about this legislation. - Joi Ito, director, MIT Media Lab *Selected resources on SOPA and PIPA* Liz Dwyer, "Why SOPA Could Kill the Open Educational Resource Movement <http://www.good.is/post/why-sopa-could-kill-the-open-education-resource-mov…>", Good Magazine Julian Sanchez, "SOPA: An Architecture for Censorship <http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/sopa-an-architecture-for-censorship/>", Cato Institute Dan Rowinsky, "What You Need to Know about SOPA in 2012 <http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/what_you_need_to_know_about_sopa_in_20…>", ReadWriteWeb "Internet Blacklist Legislation <https://www.eff.org/issues/coica-internet-censorship-and-copyright-bill>", Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF's email campaign against the legislation <https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8173> and EFF guide to meeting with your representatives <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/stop-blacklist-legislation-guide-pers…>.

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Fw: [Creis_Terminal] Sommaire EpiNet n°140
by Mariella Berra Jan. 16, 2012

Jan. 16, 2012

a proposito dell'uso della informatica.e della caacità di uso Ciao Mariella ----- Original Message ----- From: "Archambault Jean-Pierre" <jean-pierre.archambault(a)ac-paris.fr> To: <creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 9:20 AM Subject: [Creis_Terminal] Sommaire EpiNet n°140 Bonjour, Veuillez trouver ci-dessous l'extrait du sommaire d'EpiNet n°141 de janvier 2012. Jean-Pierre Archambault * Éditorial : Une commission de l'Académie des Sciences sur l'enseignement de l'informatique : http://www.epi.asso.fr/revue/articles/a1201a.htm * Articles : http://www.epi.asso.fr/revue/articsom.htm · Lettre ouverte aux présidentiables. Michel Volle. · La dette et l'informatique. Maurice Nivat. · Au bout de dix ans de pratique du B2i, nous constatons un échec. Jean-Pierre Archambault. · Profils des formateurs usagers des TIC à l'ENS d'Abidjan. Thierry Karsenti, Séhi Antoine Mian Bi. * Documents : http://www.epi.asso.fr/revue/docsom.htm · La diffusion des TIC dans la société française. · Le secteur du logiciel libre en France créateur d'emplois numériques. * ITIC : http://www.epi.asso.fr/revue/iticsom.htm · Collège de France : chaire « Informatique et sciences numériques ». Serge Abiteboul. · Informatique : séance de rattrapage pour l'Éducation nationale. Gilles Dowek sur France Inter. * Plus les rubriques habituelles : lu, libre, sites visités, ... * Bloc-notes : http://www.epi.asso.fr/blocnote/blocsom.htm * Les archives d'EpiNet : http://www.epi.asso.fr/epinet.htm Toutes nos excuses pour les doublons éventuels. Bien cordialement et meilleurs voeux pour 2012 ! Le Secrétariat EPI Paris, 16-01-2012 _______________________________________________ Creis_terminal mailing list Creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org https://listes.globenet.org/listinfo/creis_terminal

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discorso a Berlino di Christopher Lauer (Partito Pirata)
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 15, 2012

Jan. 15, 2012

Segnalo questo discorso di Christopher Lauer al Parlamento di Berlino: http://youtu.be/6U82ig37TaE Per i sottotitoli in inglese premere "cc" in basso a destra. juan carlos

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Malamud, pubblico dominio e ContendID
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 15, 2012

Jan. 15, 2012

Carl Malamud <https://plus.google.com/102057379055744684863> - 14:57 <https://plus.google.com/102057379055744684863/posts/4oUsLDrgWpR> - Pubblico *Judge Paul Called Me a Thief* /I Was Tried In Abstentia, Convicted and Sent to Copyright School/ It would be wrong for me to call Paul Brownstein a schmuck. After all, I've never met the man! So why is Paul Brownstein calling me a thief? Public.Resource.Org <http://Public.Resource.Org> runs the FedFlix channel, a popular channel with 6,061 videos gleaned from deep inside the vaults of the U.S. government. The International Amateur Scanning League, a group of volunteers based in Washington, D.C., went to the National Archives and found unused videos produced by the government. They send us the DVDs, we rip them and find metadata, and it gets upload to YouTube and the Internet Archive. We've had over 20 million views for these videos. On YouTube, there is a system called ContentID, which allows the owner of video to claim ownership of video or audio. The ContentID system then keeps an eye out for kids uploading the video. The purported owner is then able to take a variety of actions, ranging from simply doing nothing to blocking the display of the video in certain countries, to muting the audio, monetizing the video by forcing advertisements before it plays or as an overlay, or the most extreme action of executing a removal of the offending bits. If the purported owner decides to remove the video because it is in allegedly in violation of copyright, the person who uploaded the offending video gets an Official Copyright Strike on their account. When you get a strike, you have to go to Copyright School, which consists of watching a video about the copyright laws, then taking a test. If you pass the test, and this is only your first strike, your account is put on a kind of probation for 6 months, which means you loose certain powers, such as the ability to designate your videos as Creative Commons licensed so others can use it. If you get 3 strikes on your account, your account is TERMINATED. Public.Resource.Org <http://Public.Resource.Org> has 326 ContentID matches on our account. In many cases, the matches are totally bogus. Using the ContentID Dispute procedure, we're able to submit a brief explanation of why we believe the ContentID match was mistaken, or why this is fair use, or why we have authorization to be using the disputed material. A good summary of these issues and the situation we found ourselves in was printed in the Guardian by Cory Doctorow: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/12/pirates-of-youtube-cory-do… After Doctorow's piece appeared, we finished our research on the provenance of the videos, talked to the General Counsel at NARA and at YouTube, and began to systematically dispute many of the matches. You can view our dispute log here: https://public.resource.org/ntis.gov/contentid.html Out of the 326 ContentID matches, as of today we were able to clear 250 of the claims and make them disappear. However, there are still quite a few ContentID matches that no action has been taken on and there is really nothing we can do about it. [...] Continua qui: https://plus.google.com/102057379055744684863/posts/4oUsLDrgWpR

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questa è una nuova disciplina
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 15, 2012

Jan. 15, 2012

A volte divento impaziente quando colleghi accademici - di varie discipline - si comportano come se pensassero che sulle questioni "digitali" dire la prima cosa che passa loro per la testa sia automaticamente interessante in virtù della loro eccellenza nell'ingegneria, nell'economia, nella filosofia, nel diritto, nella letteratura, nel giornalismo, eccetera. Non è così. Non è più il 1994. Nel 2011 (ma ormai da qualche anno) occuparsi di Internet e di digitale pressupone, se si vuol esser seri, la conoscenza di una bibliografia molto consistente, composta sia da articoli scientifici, sia - e forse soprattutto, con buona pace di coloro che pensano che il libro sia morto - da monografie. Un esempio? Questa recensione dei libri usciti nel solo 2011: http://techliberation.com/2011/12/09/important-cyberlaw-info-tech-policy-bo… Non tutti quei libri sono importanti, ovviamente. Alcuni basterà sfogliarli per cassarli. Altri saranno sufficientemente lontani dai propri specifici interessi - non ci si può occupare di tutto, neanche in questa disciplina emergente! - che si potranno legittimamente ignorare in attesa di avere il tempo di leggere anche quelli. Ma altri libri invece stanno cambiando l'intero settore e il non averli letti squalificherà chi vorrà ancora continuare a occuparsi di Internet in maniera rigorosa. E' così che funziona la ricerca. Da questo punto di vista, anche in Italia dobbiamo sforzarci tutti di alzare l'asticella, di fare ciascuno i propri "compiti", di sudare sulle carte, di tenerci aggiornati. Senza sentirci troppo in colpa se ogni tanto magari ci sottraiamo - il tempo è prezioso - a confronti con persone che pensano ancora di essere nel 1994. juan carlos

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