February 2013 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

La Stampa (De Martin): Uomini e macchine, tutti nella stessa infosfera
by Giuseppe Futia Feb. 1, 2016

Feb. 1, 2016

11.09.2012 Uomini e macchine, tutti nella stessa infosfera JUAN CARLOS DE MARTIN Il 7 giugno 1954 moriva, in circostanze tragiche, Alan Turing, il matematico inglese considerato uno dei padri dell'informatica. Non aveva ancora compiuto quarantadue anni. A lui si devono, oltre al resto, la macchina ideale nota come «macchina di Turing», ovvero il modello concettuale alla base del computer moderno, e il «test di Turing», ovvero la riflessione che diede il via agli studi sull'intelligenza artificiale. Ma Alan Turing, secondo Luciano Floridi, filosofo a Oxford e recentissimo vincitore del premio Weizenbaum, non fu solo un grande scienziato, fu uno di quei rari pensatori capaci di rivoluzionare il modo in cui l'umanità concepisce sé stessa. [...] Continua qui: http://www3.lastampa.it/cultura/sezioni/articolo/lstp/468108/ /Vi ricordiamo che il prof. Luciano Floridi presenta il suo libro "La rivoluzione dell' informazione" (Codice edizioni) oggi a Torino, ore 18.00 presso la Feltrinelli di piazza Cln, con il prof. Juan Carlos De Martin e il prof. Ugo Pagallo./ /Vi ricordiamo inoltre che il prof. Floridi sarà ospite del 45° Mercoledì di Nexa (/http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-45/) domani a partire dalle ore 18.00 presso il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società./

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Bruce Sterling on Why It Stopped Making Sense to Talk About 'The Internet' in 2012
by J.C. DE MARTIN Sept. 20, 2013

Sept. 20, 2013

Bruce Sterling (neo-garante del Centro Nexa!) parla dei nuovi mega-silos che stanno frammentando Internet. juan carlos Bruce Sterling on Why It Stopped Making Sense to Talk About 'The Internet' in 2012 /Five simple reasons: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft./ Dec 27 2012, 2:56 PM ET Many people use, as a kind of shorthand, /The Internet/ to mean a wide variety of things related to this series of tubes. The Internet could mean the culture made and distributed on the Internet, the LOLCATZ, memes, etc. ("The Internet loves this kind of stuff.") The Internet could mean the infrastructure itself, its speed and distribution. ("The Internet is so sloooow right now.") The Internet could mean the industry that builds it, the consumer and B2B companies that effectively own all the quasi-public spaces through which we traipse. ("The Internet wants to disintermediate blahblahblah.") And there are a thousand other times when we find it easier to say, "The Internet does" or "It feels like the Internet is" or whatever rather than attempt to identify the specific actors of the play. And maybe that was helpful. Maybe in such a distributed system it makes sense to use "The Internet" as a stand-in for causal agents that seem to inhere /in the network/ without belonging to any individual node. Maybe it's like a mob or a gatheration of starlings; the dynamic relationships between the individuals turn out to be more important than the things themselves. But in 2012, that way of talking, if it was ever helpful, is no longer. And there are five reasons for that: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft. Now, when we say, "The Internet" or "smartphones" or "computers" we usually mean something shaped by one of these entities, or all of them. [...] Continua qui: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/bruce-sterling-on-why…

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Bauwens: "Cloud Computing as Enclosure" (con link)
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 22, 2013

March 22, 2013

Cloud Computing as Enclosure <http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/cloud-computing-as-enclosure/2013/01/15> Michel Bauwens 15th January 2013 Republished <http://bollier.org/blog/cloud-computing-enclosure>from*David Bollier*: "As more and more computing moves off our PCs and into "the Cloud," Internet users are gaining access to a wealth of new software-based services that can exploit vast computing capacity and memory storage. That's wonderful. But what about our freedom to create and share things as we wish, free from corporate or government surveillance or over-reaching copyright enforcement? The real danger of the Cloud is its potential to limit how we may create and share what we want, on our terms. There are already signs that large corporations like Google, Facebook, Twitter and all the rest will quietly warp the design architecture of the Internet to serve their business interests first.*A terrific overview of the troubling issues raised by the Cloud can be found in the essay, "The Cloud: Boundless Digital Potential or Enclosure 3.0 <http://www.vjolt.net/vol17/issue3/v17i3_190_Lametti.pdf>," by/David Lametti/, a law professor at McGill University, and published by the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology.*An earlier version is available at the SSRN website. Lametti states his thesis simply: "I argue that the Cloud, unless monitored and possibly directed, has the potential to go beyond undermining copyright and the public domain -- Enclosure 2.0 -- and to go beyond weakening privacy. This round, which I call "Enclosure 3.0", has the potential to disempower Internet users and conversely empower a very small group of gatekeepers. Put bluntly, it has the potential to relegate Internet users to the status of digital sheep." [...] Continua qui: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/cloud-computing-as-enclosure/2013/01/15

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Lessig on 'Aaron's Laws_streaming
by Alessandro Mantelero Feb. 20, 2013

Feb. 20, 2013

LIVE WEBCAST: Lessig on 'Aaron's Laws - Law and Justice in a Digital Age' http://video.isites.harvard.edu/liveVideo/liveView.do?name=lessigchair

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Skidelsky: "The Rise of the Robots"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 20, 2013

Feb. 20, 2013

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-future-of-work-in-a-world-o… Robert Skidelsky, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University and a fellow of the British Academy in history and economics, is a member of the British House of Lords.

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Google si muove in direzione del "Follow The Money"
by Matteo G.P. Flora Feb. 20, 2013

Feb. 20, 2013

La disciplina del “follow the money” sembra attecchire - finalmente, mi si consenta - anche in casa Google: > The web search giant, which is embroiled in a long-running row over the way it deals with pirated material, is considering the radical measure so that it can get rid of the root cause instead of having to change its own search results. > Executives want to stop websites more or less dedicated to offering links to pirated films, music and books from making money out of the illegal material. The plans, still in discussion, would also block funding to websites that do not respond to legal challenges, for example because they are offshore. (cit) <http://mgpf.it/2013/02/20/google-taglia-i-fondi-ai-siti-illegali.html> -- Matteo G.P. Flora - The Fool srl - CEO & Founder C.so Magenta, 43 | 20123 Milano | http://thefool.it off. +39.02-00613665 | mob. +39.347.9676430 Direzione e Coordinamento Giacomini Investimenti S.p.a.

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Re: [nexa] UK: Google deve provvedere alla rimozione dei contenuti diffamatori pubblicati su Blogger
by Maurizio Borghi Feb. 20, 2013

Feb. 20, 2013

Grazie della segnalazione. La sentenza in realtà non stabilisce un limite temporale per la rimozione dei contenuti diffamatori, ma si limita a sancire che il mantenimento di tali contenuti dopo aver ricevuto la segnalazione rende il provider responsabile di 'continuazione della pubblicazione' e dunque di fatto un editore, e come tale potenzialmente responsabile della diffamazione. Nel caso in questione, il danno creato dal provider nel (breve) lasso di tempo nel quale esso poteva essere considerato un 'editore' è stato ritenuto troppo 'insignificante' (trivial) per giustificare una causa per diffamazione. Un cordiale saluto Maurizio _______________________________________ Maurizio Borghi Director Centre for Intellectual Property, Internet and Media Brunel University London Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH Personal web page ________________________________________ From: nexa-bounces(a)server-nexa.polito.it [nexa-bounces(a)server-nexa.polito.it] On Behalf Of Matteo G.P. Flora [mf(a)thefool.it] Sent: 19 February 2013 10:40 To: NEXA List Subject: [nexa] UK: Google deve provvedere alla rimozione dei contenuti diffamatori pubblicati su Blogger <http://mgpf.it/2013/02/19/uk-google-deve-provvedere-alla-rimozione-dei-cont…> La Corte d’appello di Londra ha stabilito il provider ha a disposizione 5 settimane per la rimozione del contenuto in seguito alla richiesta di cancellazione di commenti diffamatori. Superato questo “limite” vi sono i presupposti per avviare una causa per diffamazione. Il ricorso in appello era stato presentato in seguito ad una querela per diffamazione a Google a causa della mancata rimozione di alcuni commenti pubblicati nel 2011 su un blog ospitato dalla piattaforma Blogger gestita dal motore di ricerca, edi il giudice di primo grado aveva stabilito che non fosse possibile sostenere il reato di diffamazione perché Google non poteva essere considerato come l’editore dei blog ospitati sulla sua piattaforma. Qui la sentenza: <http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2013/68.html> -- Matteo G.P. Flora - The Fool srl - CEO & Founder C.so Magenta, 43 | 20123 Milano | http://thefool.it off. +39.02-00613665 | mob. +39.347.9676430 Direzione e Coordinamento Giacomini Investimenti S.p.a. _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

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informazioni
by Mariella Berra Feb. 20, 2013

Feb. 20, 2013

"Così le mail raccontano le rotte degli italiani in fuga". Articolo di Vladimiro Polchi, La Repubblica, p. 1-25 "Il net-criticism nella storia del web 2.0". Articolo di Vincenzo Grienti, www.instoria.it

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Why do US and EU trade negotiators hate the Berne Copyright Limitations and Exceptions?
by Carlo Blengino Feb. 20, 2013

Feb. 20, 2013

http://keionline.org/node/1655 Inviato da iPad2

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James Love: "Why do US and EU trade negotiators hate the Berne Copyright Limitations and Exceptions?"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 20, 2013

Feb. 20, 2013

*Why do US and EU trade negotiators hate the Berne Copyright Limitations and Exceptions?* Submitted by James Love on 20. February 2013 - 0:48 For the past year, a treaty on copyright exceptions for persons who are blind or have other disabilities has been hung up on demands by the European Union to insert provocative language on the so called "three step test" in copyright into the treaty. The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement is in the middle of a similar dispute, with the US pushing language that would place the three step test on top of all copyright limitations and exceptions, including those set out a particular cases in the Berne Convention. One US State Department employee referred to the three step test as the fundamental basis for copyright. What is the three step test in copyright? Well, there are several. There is a three step in the Berne Convention, created in 1967 to provide for general exceptions to the reproduction rights of authors in areas where the Berne did not have a separate (a particular) standard for the exception. The three step test was modified to focus on right holders in the TRIPS, and modified again in the WCT to acknowledge the importance of the Berne Exceptions, in the WPPT for the rights that it provided, and now in countless new treaties and trade agreements, with some surprisingly variances, many of which are reported here:http://keionline.org/node/1568. [...] Continua qui: http://keionline.org/node/1655

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