October 2012 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Ars Technica: "How a Supreme Court ruling may stop you from reselling just about anything"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

How a Supreme Court ruling may stop you from reselling just about anything /Wiley v. Kirtsaeng/ may be the IP case of the decade---affecting all from eBay to libraries. by Joe Mullin <http://arstechnica.com/author/joe-mullin-2/> - Oct 29 2012, 0:00am CET On Monday, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that pits a major textbook publisher against Supap Kirtsaeng, a student-entrepreneur who built a small business importing and selling textbooks. Like many Supreme Court cases, though, there's more than meets the eye. It's not merely a question of whether the Thai-born Kirtsaeng will have to cough up his profits as a copyright infringer; the case is a long-awaited rematch between content companies seeking to knock out the "first sale" doctrine on goods made abroad (not to mention their many opponents). That makes /Wiley v. Kirtsaeng/ the highest-stakes intellectual property case of the year, if not the decade. It's not an exaggeration to say the outcome could affect the very notion of property ownership in the United States. Since most consumer electronics are manufactured outside the US and include copyrighted software in it, a loss for Kirtsaeng would mean copyright owners could tax, or even shut down, resales of everything from books to DVDs to cellphones. [...] Continua qui: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/a-supreme-court-clash-could-cha=…

Oct. 31, 2012

Re: [nexa] Video: "RAP NEWS 15: Big Brother is WWWatching You (feat. George Orwell)"

by Leslie CameronCurry

grazie. girato anche su facebook. citando fonte. Leslie Cameron-Curry leslie.cameroncurry(a)gmail.com ========================== 2012/10/31 J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin(a)polito.it> > http://youtu.be/o66FUc61MvU > > juan carlos > > ______________________________**_________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/**cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa<https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa> >

Oct. 31, 2012

Video: "RAP NEWS 15: Big Brother is WWWatching You (feat. George Orwell)"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

http://youtu.be/o66FUc61MvU juan carlos

Oct. 31, 2012

Fwd: [dpla-discussion] Harvard to Contribute Special Collections Materials to Digital Public Library of America

by J.C. DE MARTIN

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [dpla-discussion] Harvard to Contribute Special Collections Materials to Digital Public Library of America Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:13:22 -0400 From: Kenny Whitebloom <kwhitebloom(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu> Reply-To: dpla-discussion(a)eon.law.harvard.edu To: dpla-discussion(a)eon.law.harvard.edu, dpla(a)eon.law.harvard.edu *Harvard to Contribute Special Collections Materials to Digital Public Library of America* /Harvard Library committed to expanding access to materials./ October 31, 2012---The Harvard Library <http://library.harvard.edu/> plans to share several collections with the Digital Public Library of America <http://dp.la> (DPLA)---becoming the first DPLA content hub <http://dp.la/about/digital-hubs-pilot-project/>. The Harvard Library contains a wealth of special collections, and is dedicated to providing open access to them, where possible, through digitization and online dissemination. Through its collaboration with the DPLA, Harvard will contribute to global access to knowledge by linking to select digitized special collections. Robert Darnton, Harvard University Librarian and DPLA Steering Committee member, noted, "By making their special collections available to the public through the DPLA, research libraries can contribute mightily to the democratization of access to knowledge. Harvard's collections, built up since 1638, form the largest university library in the country. By supporting the DPLA, we will make the choicest items in them accessible to everyone in America---and eventually, we hope, to everyone in the world." In response to the DPLA's call, the Harvard Library is actively exploring what collections it could contribute. Work remains to be done on various fronts before a final decision is made about specific collections, but the Harvard Library looks forward to making a number of its collections available to the DPLA. Among them, the following have already been digitized and could be available to the DPLA before its launch in April 2013: * /Colonial Harvard/. An online guide and an expanding digital data base with thousands of items---diaries, commonplace books, correspondence, legal documents, University records, drawings, maps, student notebooks, scientific observations and lecture notes---that form the documentary history of Harvard and serve as one of the great social history collections on the evolving United States. * /Daguerreotypes/. Harvard's 3,500 daguerreotypes gathered in an online collection. The images include some of the earliest photographs of the moon, views of the first use of ether and rare portraits of African-born slaves. * /Digital Scores and Libretti/. First and early editions and manuscripts of works by J.S. Bach (and family), Mozart, Schubert and others. * /Zoology/. The Jacques Burkhardt Collection comprising 976 scientific drawings of fish and miscellaneous vertebrates and invertebrates. The collection also includes field notes, correspondence, diaries, photographs and specimen records from Louis Agassiz's 15-month Brazil expedition in 1865-66. * /Digital Maps/. Over 1,000 maps and atlases, many georeferenced for use in GIS. Includes maps of New England towns, London, China, pictorial maps by Ernest Dudley Chase, fire-insurance and real-property atlases and maps from the Revolutionary War. * /Trial Narratives/. More than 450 pamphlets and chapbooks printed in the United States and the United Kingdom during the first half of the nineteenth century. They recount trials for murder, rape, divorce, domestic violence, adultery, bigamy, breach of promise to marry and the custody of children. * /Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts/. More than 75 rare works in English, French, German, Italian, and Greek. From the collection of Houghton Library, these manuscripts reflect a broad range of subjects in history, literature, religion, science and geography. This selection also includes richly illuminated books of hours used for private devotion. Harvard holds the largest collection of the original manuscripts of poems by Emily Dickinson. It is now assembling these manuscripts and other material into a digital Emily Dickinson Archive, which it could make available to the DPLA as well. And as it pursues other digitization initiatives and reviews its digital holdings, it may make additional material available. Projects that could fall in this category include collections of North American manuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries, rare Chinese works and materials from the Library's Open Collections Program. "The Harvard Library is committed to collaboration and open access. Earlier this year, the Library made more than 12 million of its records publically available, and is actively pursuing additional collaborative and open access projects. We hope this contribution is one of many steps toward sharing the vital cultural knowledge in libraries with all," said Mary Lee Kennedy, Senior Associate Provost for the Harvard Library. The DPLA is still taking shape, and Harvard's collaboration with it is contingent upon working out satisfactory arrangements on a range of matters. The Harvard Library will ensure that any materials made available by it through the DPLA do not infringe copyright. ### *Contact* Kira Poplowski Director of Communications The Harvard Library 617.496.3758 kira_poplowski at harvard.edu <mailto:kira_poplowski@harvard.edu>

Oct. 31, 2012

L'abrogazione dell'adozione dei libri di testo scolastici come metafora - mondopen

by Marco Baldassari

http://www.egovnews.it/articolo/16953/L-abrogazione-dell-adozione-dei-libri… Totalmente favorevole!! (nella legge precedente i testi dovevano gia' essere online nel 2o12) Unleash creativity in open education. Chiedo a tutti di spingere al massimo in questa direzione.

Oct. 31, 2012

Seminario a Trento su PRIVACY CHALLENGES FOR DATABASE SYSTEMS

by Maurizio Napolitano

Segnalo questo seminario sperando sia di interesse a questa ML. ================================================================== PRIVACY CHALLENGES FOR DATABASE SYSTEMS November 7th, 2012 Wednesday 2:30 pm EIT conference room, Northern Bldg, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Sommarive 18 - Povo Speaker: Prof. Johann-Christoph Freytag - Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Abstract: Over the last years the means to collect personal data implicitly or explicitly over the Web and by various kinds of sensors and to combine data for profiling individuals has dramatically increased. These improved abilities have a dramatic impact on the privacy of every individual. This talk focuses on presenting and discussing different approaches how to prevent privacy breaches when personal data is either stored or individuals are at risk to reveal which data they access. In the first part of the talk we introduce several examples of privacy breaches that help us to better understand what is at risk and to categorize the kind of privacy threads and privacy attacks. They show that privacy is at risk in different fields such as in the field of communication and in the field of database systems. The latter will be the focus for the rest of the presentation. To begin with, we first discuss the principles of Hippocratic database systems that should guide any privacy solution for database systems. These principles rest in part on various requirements coming from the privacy (non computer science) community and from the legal world. They will help us in better understand the different solutions and concepts to protect the privacy of individuals when storing personal data in a database system. We then turn to the notion of data privacy. The challenge of data privacy is to prevent the linkage of stored data to individuals. For example, if we store patient and disease data, it should be impossible to find out which individual has which disease when the data is released. As a first step we introduce the notion of k-anonymity as a way to release data without revealing the identity of the individual they belong to. We show that the basic notion of k-anonymity does not suffice; it must be improved in various ways due to the different kind of privacy leakages (or possible attacks) that might occur. Based on the notion of access privacy we describe a solution how protect the user’s privacy when accessing a database such that one cannot detect/observe which data is accessed in the database. The presentation ends by discussing how to model the knowledge an adversary gains by the results of a series of queries to the database – here the goal is to detect when the database should not provide any more results in order to protect privacy. Short Bio: Johann-Christoph Freytag is currently full professor for Databases and Information Systems (DBIS) at the Computer Science Department of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Before joining the department in 1994, he was a research staff member at the IBM Almaden Research Center (1985-1987), a researcher at the European Computer-Industry-Research Centre (ECRC, in Munich, Germany, 1987-1989), and the head of Digital's Database Technology Center (also in Munich, 1990- 1993). He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Harvard University, MA. Prof. Freytag's research interests include all aspects of query processing and query optimization in object-relational database systems, new developments in the database area (such as semi-structured data, data quality, databases and security), privacy in database systems, and applying database technology to applications such as GIS, genomics, and bioinformatics/life science. In the last years he received the IBM Faculty Award four times for collaborative work in the areas of databases, middleware, and bioinformatics/life science. He organized the VLDB conference in Berlin in 2003 and was a member of the VLDB Endowment (2001-2007) and in the head of the German database interest group of the GI (Fachbereich DBIS, Gesellschaft für Informatik). Contact: Cesare Furlanello, MPBA - Center for Information Technology - Irst

Oct. 31, 2012

Disponibili online le registrazioni video di IGF Italia 2012

by Giuseppe Futia

Gentilissimi, siamo lieti di informarvi che sono disponibili online le registrazioni video di IGF Italia 2012: http://nexa.polito.it/2012-igf-italia Per maggiori informazioni potete inoltre visitare il sito: http://2012.igf-italia.it/ Cordiali saluti, -- Giuseppe Futia Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: giuseppe.futia(a)polito.it tel. +39 011 090 7219

Oct. 31, 2012

M Castell

by gianluca quaglia

estratto da un articolo dal sito dells BBC on line con il sociologo M Castell [...] What is the Network Society? Continue reading the main story <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20027044#story_continues_4> "Start Quote All the studies on the internet show that people who are more social on the internet are also more social face-to-face" Prof Manuel Castells "It's a society where the main activities in which people are engaged are organised fundamentally in networks, rather than in vertical organisations. "The difference is very simple - network technologies. It's not the same thing to be constantly interactive at the speed of light than just simply have a network of friends and people. "So all networks exist, but the connection between everything and everything - be it financial markets, politics, culture, media, communications, etc - that's new because of the new digital technologies." *Paul Mason: So we live in a network society. Could we reverse out of a network society?* "Can we reverse to a pre-electricity world? It's the same thing. No we can't. "Although many people now are saying 'well why we don't start all over again?' It's a huge movement called the de-growth movement. Some people would try to go to different forms of communal organisation, etc.ciety "However, the interesting thing is for the people to organise and debate and mobilise for de-growth and communalism, they have to use the internet. "We live in a culture of not virtual reality, but real virtuality because our virtuality - meaning the internet networks - are a fundamental part of our reality. "All the studies on the internet show that people who are more social on the internet are also more social face-to-face." [...] l'articolo in vertsione integrale lo trovate qui http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20027044 qgl

Oct. 31, 2012

Possibili interruzioni servizi di rete il 31/10/2012

by Luca Leschiutta

Buongiorno, si segnala che domani, nel contesto dell'evoluzione della rete dati del Politecnico, verrà sostituito un apparato. Durante tali attività, che inizieranno alle ore 18:00 e termineranno, salvo imprevisti, alle ore 19:00, si potrebbero verificare delle brevi interruzioni di connettività verso i nostri server. Cordiali saluti Luca Leschiutta ====================================== Dr. Luca Leschiutta, Ph.D. IT manager @ NEXA Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN C.so Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy Tel. +39 011 090 7218 Fax +39 011 090 7216 web: http://nexa.polito.it =======================================

Oct. 30, 2012

No Disconnect Strategy / Workshop on a "European Capability for Situational Awareness" / 23 November 2012, Brussels, Belgium

by Andrea Glorioso

[* Apologies if you receive this e-mail more than once. Please share among all your relevant contacts* ] *Short version* You are all kindly invited to a workshop which will be held on *23 November 2012* in Brussels, Belgium, to discuss a key component of the "No Disconnect Strategy" of the European Commission, i.e. the development of a "European Capability for Situational Awareness". The purpose of ECSA is to augment EU decision-making capabilities with reliable and real-time (or almost real-time) information concerning human rights violations in connection with the digital environment. For further information see the full invitation below and the *attached draft agenda*(which will be updated in the coming days). The website of the workshop, where we will also publish preparatory material and the reports of the workshop, will be available shortly. For further information on the *content* of the workshop, please *write to me* (Andrea.Glorioso(a)ec.europa.eu) To *participate in the workshop* (no fee, but no reimbursement of expenses, either) please *write to Ms Katrin Alfano* (Katrin.Alfano(a)ec.europa.eu) with your name/surname, nationality and ID / passport number. *Long version* In December 2011 Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, launched the "No Disconnect Strategy" (NDS), to support and assist human rights defenders, civil society organizations and individual citizens against arbitrary disruptions to the Internet and other electronic communication technologies and indiscriminate surveillance in authoritarian regimes. [1] One of the components of the NDS is the development of a "*European Capability for Situational Awareness*" (ECSA) platform. The purpose of the ECSA platform is to augment EU decision-making capabilities with *reliable* and *real-time* or *almost real-time*information concerning human rights violations and/or restrictions of fundamental freedoms in connection with the digital environment. ECSA would seamlessly aggregate public data from different sources and with innovative visualisation techniques, to provide information on: a) What is happening in the Net, in terms of network connectivity and traffic alterations or restrictions. The platform should integrate and visualize different data sets analysing the "state of the Internet" (nation-, region- or local disconnection, filtering, blocking and other forms of disruptions) in order to allow decision-makers to act upon reliable data concerning the "cyber-geography" of Internet connectivity. b) What is happening on the ground, in terms of human rights, media, legal and policy developments concerning the Internet. The platform should integrate and visualise data sets analysing legal and political developments "on the ground" (e.g. arrests of journalists, crack-downs on local NGOs, etc). We are well aware that there are a number of projects which are working on very similar challenges – and some of these projects might have already developed parts of what the ECSA platform wishes to achieve. Accordingly, the European Commission / DG Communication Networks, Content and Technology would like to invite you to a *workshop* which will take place in *Brussels (Avenue de Beaulieu 25 – Building BU25 – Meeting room 0/S1) on 23 November 2012, from 09:30 to 17:00*, in order to: 1. present and discuss the scope, objectives and "success criteria" of the ECSA platform; 2. present and discuss some of the projects that are working in this field; 3. provide the opportunity for (social) networking and; 4. identify the best way in which the EU can provide *added value* to strengthen on-going activities and achieve the objectives of the ECSA platform, including (where appropriate) via financial support; The workshop is meant to be as informal and operational as possible. If you think you are working on a project that should be presented / discussed during the workshop, please let us know by writing to *Mr* *Andrea Glorioso*( Andrea.Glorioso(a)ec.europa.eu) The draft agenda of the workshop is attached. The website of the workshop, where we will also publish preparatory material and the reports, will be available shortly. If you wish to participate, please send your *name / family name, nationality and ID / passport number* to *Ms* *Katrin Alfano* ( Katrin.Alfano(a)ec.europa.eu) Please note that at this point in time the European Commission will not be in a position to reimburse travelling / living expenses for participants or speakers. Should the situation change we will inform you accordingly. *[1] You can find further information on the NDS at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-11-866_en.htm?locale=en (speech of Vice-President Kroes at the Ministerial Conference on Internet Freedom, 9 December 2012, The Hague) as well as http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neel ie-kroes/ict-human-rights-guidance/ and http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/eu-fighting-cybercensorship/(updates / further info on the work conducted so far). * * * Best, -- Andrea Glorioso (Mr) European Commission - DG Communication Networks, Content and Technology Unit D1 (International relations) + Task Force on Internet Policy Development Avenue de Beaulieu 25 (4/64) / B-1049 / Brussels / Belgium T: +32-2-29-97682 M: +32-460-797-682 E: Andrea.Glorioso(a)ec.europa.eu Twitter: @andreaglorioso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrea.glorioso LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1749288&trk=tab_pro The views expressed above are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. 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Oct. 30, 2012