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The Fair Use/Fair Dealing Handbook
by Blengino March 28, 2013

March 28, 2013

Molto interessante... <http://infojustice.org/archives/29136> The Fair Use/Fair Dealing Handbook More than 40 countries with over one-third of the world's population have fair use or fair dealing provisions in their copyright laws. These countries are in all regions of the world and at all levels of development. The broad diffusion of fair use and fair dealing indicates that there is no basis for preventing the more widespread adoption of these doctrines, with the benefits their flexibility brings to authors, publishers, consumers, technology companies, libraries, museums, educational institutions, and governments. http://infojustice.org/archives/29136

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Informal Consultation on “Internet Universality” Concept
by Andrea Cairola March 28, 2013

March 28, 2013

Carissimi, sul (neo)concetto di “Internet Universality” UNESCO’s Freedom of Expression and Media Development Division is kick-starting work on a new concept: “Internet Universality”. At this preliminary stage, UNESCO is seeking input from the WSIS community to feed conceptual work on this notion. An outcome may be a document to present at the Internet Governance Forum 2013. ...Far-reaching in scope, “Internet Universality” encompasses a free, rights-based, open and accessible Internet...In this light, the concept of “Internet Universality” could be understood as a heuristic to highlight the interdependence of the components of this uniquely open ecosystem – the normative, technical, social, etc Piu' info in allegato e su http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-a… http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/freedom-of-expre… Possono anche interessare: - Global survey on Internet privacy and freedom of expression http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/public… - Call for proposals: Research on the Safety of Online Media Actors Doing Journalism http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-a… un caro saluto Andrea

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Anche gli editori portoghesi vogliono che Google paghi come in Francia ma Google non vuole
by Stefano Quintarelli March 27, 2013

March 27, 2013

Anche gli editori portoghesi vogliono che Google paghi come in Francia ma Google non vuole (con una breve riflessione sull'effetto delle correnti sotterranee digitali che attraversano l'editoria, e loro conseguenze sul business) http://is.gd/ulW49r ciao, s. -- my calendar: http://doodle.com/quinta http://blog.quintarelli.it

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The UK Copyright Hub
by Luca Valente March 27, 2013

March 27, 2013

"An idea initially envisioned as the "Digital Copyright Exchange" in U.K. professor Ian Hargreaves' 2011 report<http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/1167506/ian-hargreaves-qa-the-ma…>on copyright reform, before becoming the Copyright Hub in a report released last year, is now becoming a very real (digital) thing. The Copyright Hub is one of the first, and most high-profile, steps the U.K. has taken towards modernizing and streamlining its countries' management of copyright in the digital age, following the past two years' investigations and reports. Said Richard Hooper, architect of the Hub, in a statement: "The Copyright Hub until now has been just an idea. Today it begins to become an exciting reality.(..)” continua qui<http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/1554439/uk-an…> _____________ Un caro saluto, Luca Valente

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Fwd: Elinor Ostrom Award on collective governance on the commons
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 27, 2013

March 27, 2013

> > THE ELINOR OSTROM AWARD ON COLLECTIVE GOVERNANCE OF THE COMMONS > > Created to honour and develop the legacy of Elinor Ostrom, it aims to acknowledge and promote the work of practitioners, young and senior scholars involved in the field of the commons. According with Ostrom´ s large legacy the Award will go to academic and applied works on traditional commons, local commons, interlinked commons, global commons, knowledge, cultural and virtual commons. > > There are three main Award categories: > * Scientific - Young Scholars: No more than ten years after the PHD > * Scientific - Senior Scholars More than ten years after the PHD > * Applied - Practitioners > > Nominators can submit the proposals until April 8th, 2013. > > http://elinorostromaward.org/ > > Vision Statement: About Elinor Ostrom > > Elinor Ostrom was an exceptional academic leader who, throughout her carrier, had challenged the conventional vision of individuals who act only as rational utility-maximizers and are neither able to cooperate, not to create, own, or use collective goods sustainably, except under external authoritarian rule or by dividing those goods into small units and privatizing them. By demonstrating that collaboration is possible, frequent and occurs among individuals of different rationalities and in different contexts, Ostrom promoted a paradigm shift in political science and economics, as well as behavioral and social sciences in general. > Ostrom’s methodological and theoretical approaches were guided by a strong problem-solving impulse. Her aim was to provide scientifically and empirically grounded evidence for public policy. Not surprisingly, many of her contributions have direct implications for policy and governance of a wide range of collective goods that came to be recognized and defined as “commons”- including some of those “global” goods critical for the survival of humans and even of the Earth System, such as biological diversity and the Earth’s capacity to regulate climate. Today, other types of critically important goods, such as the Internet, the genetic information, and knowledge itself, are part of the theoretical and policy domain of the commons, largely as a result of Ostrom’s work. > > Ostrom’s empirically grounded faith in collective action and self-government was based on extended research on the roles that institutions (regarded as rules-in-use) play in societies and a wide analysis of the conditions and factors that improve or block their capacities to solve the governance problem of the commons. She found conditions such as trust and reciprocity among players to be crucial for any collective enterprise and argued that policy-makers should recognize their critical importance. Ostrom was a firm supporter of local collective action, but never considered that communities always acted as responsible stewards of common goods. Her stronger recommendations for policy making were poly-centricity and awareness of the considerable risks of imposed panaceas. For Ostrom, the relationship between the worlds of academia and of policy-making could be a win-win game. While she strongly believed that better policy- making required empirically grounded research, she also saw the existing policy experiences as a rich pool for new academy work. > > Ostrom was a strong believer in the need for collective action in research work itself. From the beginning, her continuous work on forests, water, wildlife, and fisheries took the “commons and collective action school” close to practitioners. She promoted inter-disciplinary collaboration beyond the realm of social sciences, as she worked closely with biologists, foresters, geographers, and mathematicians. She also fully acknowledged the need to use different methods and collaborative research in order to produce meaningful knowledge to address contemporary problems. In this realm, she also promoted paradigm shifts, as she emphasized the need to regard environmental problems as complex processes experienced by socio-ecological systems whose understanding and governance demanded equally complex approaches. It can also be said that Ostrom’s practice and reflections call for changes in the way scholarly work is produced, accessed, evaluated, distributed, and used. > > >

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1st International conference on Internet Science - Brussels, 10-11 April 2013
by Giuseppe Futia March 27, 2013

March 27, 2013

Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/2013-eins-conference> NEXA April 10-11, 2013 The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB) <http://www.kvab.be/?lang=en> Rue Ducale 1, Brussels (Belgium) http://nexa.polito.it/2013-eins-conference 1st International conference on Internet Science open_data_day Register online <http://internetscienceconference.eu/register-now/> The 1st International conference on Internet Science <http://internetscienceconference.eu/>, will be organized from April 10 to 11 in Brussels, under the aegis of the European Commission, by the EINS project, the FP7 European Network of Excellence in Internet Science <http://www.internet-science.eu/>, with the support of KVAB. This *highly multidisciplinary conference* combines Computer Science, Sociology, Art, Mathematics, Physics, Complex systems analysis, Psychology, Economics, Law, Political Science, Epistemology and other relevant disciplines. It will be a unique venue fostering dialogue among scholars and practitioners belonging to these disciplines. It will also provide the EINS Network of Excellence with an *opportunity to interact with external stakeholders, detail project objectives and methodological approach, and showcase its first results*. The event will start on April 9 at 18:30 with a welcome reception, and will end on April 11 in the early afternoon. The conference is open to any organizations and individuals interested in the event topic. Only limited registration fees are requested to attend it in order that they are not an obstacle to registration, thanks to the financial support of the European Commission, made available through the EINS FP7 project. These fees cover in particular access to the venue, to the welcome cocktail of April 9, all coffee-breaks and lunches of April 10 and 11, and the dinner of April 10. Please note that pre-registration is compulsory since registration may be closed prior to the event date due to room capacity constraints. The programme of the conference is available at: http://internetscienceconference.eu/programme/. Download the EINS Conference flyer <http://nexa.polito.it/nexacenterfiles/EINS_conference_flyer.pdf>. About the EINS Network of Excellence The EINS Network of Excellence in Internet Science is supported by the European Commission under its FP7 research-funding programme (ICT Theme). It aims to strengthen scientific and technological excellence by developing an integrated and interdisciplinary scientific understanding of Internet networks and their co-evolution with society, by addressing the fragmentation of European research in this area, at geographical and disciplinary levels. Its main objective is to enable an open and productive dialogue between all disciplines exploring Internet systems from any technological or humanistic perspective, and which in turn are being transformed by continuous advances in Internet functionality. The network brings together thirty-eight research institutions across Europe that are focusing on network engineering, computation, complexity, networking, security, mathematics, physics, sociology, game theory, economics, political sciences, humanities, and law, as well as other relevant social and life sciences. It is coordinated by Prof. Leandros Tassiulas from CERTH, Greece. The network's main deliverable will be a durable shaping and structuring of the way Internet research is carried out, by reaching a critical mass of expertise needed to provide European leadership in this area, providing concrete incentives for multidisciplinary collaborations, and spreading excellence beyond the partnership. See our events calendar <http://nexa.polito.it/events> if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, and conferences not listed in this email. Our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. More information about the Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino is available at: http://nexa.polito.it/. Weekly Events Newsletter. Sign up <http://nexa.polito.it/mailing-lists> to receive this newsletter if this email was forwarded to you. To manage your subscription preferences, please click here <https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa>. Connect & get involved: Jobs, internships, and more <http://nexa.polito.it/get-involved> Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter

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PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF AUDIOVISUAL REGULATORY BODIES
by Marina Caporale March 27, 2013

March 27, 2013

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital-agenda/files/Art30%20cons…

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cia e amazon e dati social network
by Marina Caporale March 27, 2013

March 27, 2013

ho visto questo articolo qualche giorno fa, mi sembrava estratto da una striscia di un qualche fumetto/spy story ma, superato un iniziale senso di irrealtà, temo sia una notizia fondata http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2013/03/24/usa-accordo-tra-cia-e-amazon-per… Marina

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E' disponibile online il codice sorgente di TellMeFirst
by Giuseppe Futia March 27, 2013

March 27, 2013

Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/2013-tellmefirst> NEXA E' disponibile online il codice sorgente di TellMeFirst tellmefirst Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino è lieto di annunciare che è disponibile online <https://github.com/TellMeFirst/tellmefirst>, con licenza GNU Affero GPL, il codice sorgente di TellMeFirst <http://tellmefirst.polito.it/>, applicazione che consente di *classificare ed arricchire documenti testuali* con nuovi contenuti tramite Linked Open Data <http://linkeddata.org/>. Il progetto TellMeFirst è iniziato nell'ottobre 2011 grazie ad un grant "Working Capital - PremioNazionale Innovazione <http://www.workingcapital.telecomitalia.it/2011/10/tellmefirst/>" di Telecom Italia ed è stato *sviluppato in gran parte all'interno del Centro Nexa su Internet & Società*. TellMeFirst è in grado di sfruttare tecnologie del Semantic Web <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web> e di Natural Language Processing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing> per estrarre gli argomenti principali di un testo, sotto forma di risorse DBpedia <http://dbpedia.org/>. Tali risorse vengono in seguito arricchite con nuovi contenuti di diversa natura (immagini, video, mappe e news) recuperate direttamente dal Web. Il team di sviluppo di Tellmefirst è composto da *Federico Cairo*, research fellow presso il Centro Nexa, *Giuseppe Futia*, communication manager presso il Centro Nexa, e *Federico Benedetto*, junior engineer presso BBC Future Media. See our events calendar <http://nexa.polito.it/events> if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, and conferences not listed in this email. Our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Maggiori informazioni sul Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/. Weekly Events Newsletter. Sign up <http://nexa.polito.it/mailing-lists> to receive this newsletter if this email was forwarded to you. To manage your subscription preferences, please click here <https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa>. Connect & get involved: Jobs, internships, and more <http://nexa.polito.it/get-involved> Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter

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Fwd: [ NNSquad ] FBI wants real-time access to ... well ... pretty much everything
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 27, 2013

March 27, 2013

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ NNSquad ] FBI wants real-time access to ... well ... pretty much everything Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:27:27 -0700 From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren(a)vortex.com> To: nnsquad(a)nnsquad.org FBI wants real-time access to ... well ... pretty much everything "FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as 'Top Priority' for 2013" http://j.mp/11Kqi9d (Slate) "Despite the pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance of digital communication, the FBI still has a difficult time monitoring Gmail, Google Voice, and Dropbox in real time. But that may change soon, because the bureau says it has made gaining more powers to wiretap all forms of Internet conversation and cloud storage a "top priority" this year." - - - Actually, what they want is real-time access to pretty much everything from everyone. If they could force hardware manufacturers to install keyloggers, screengrabbers, and audio/video siphons into every piece of telecom gear manufactured, they would. And at some point, they'll probably try. Could they catch more bad guys that way? Yeah. But they also could solve more crimes by installing government cameras and microphones in everyone's homes and businesses. At some point -- like now -- we simply have to say that civil liberties trump. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren(a)vortex.com) http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad

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