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"Writing or speaking about streaming music screwing artists? Read these articles first"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 15, 2013

Feb. 15, 2013

Writing or speaking about streaming music screwing artists? Read these articles first February 13th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge I really like Aimee Mann's music, but her recent interview in which she gave her views on streaming music bothered me. "My record isn't on Spotify,"Mann told the Telegraph <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/9822192/Aimee-M…>. "People may be outraged, but artists don't make money from Spotify." Artists don't make money from Spotify. A phrase that crystallises what may be the most important debate in the history of digital music: whether streaming music services can pay off for artists -- and more widely, whether they can turn a profit and build a sustainable business for themselves and the music industry. It bothered me, because it was just tossed out there with no backup. Why does Mann believe that? What data is she working from? As an artist who set up her own label some time ago and has blazed an independent path since, Mann should have an informed view, but details were frustratingly absent from that particular interview. Leaving that piece aside, though, far too much of the public debate around streaming music services and artist payouts is dominated by gut feeling, partiality and Chinese whispers. What's needed is more proper data and informed opinion. So, I gathered some. A quick note before diving into it: this article isn't trying to prove that streaming is marvellous or dreadful for artists. It's not taking sides. Some of the pieces referenced below are heavily critical of Spotify and streaming payouts, others are very supportive, and others are simply trying to get to the bottom of the actual numbers. The point: spend an hour or two reading all these pieces, and you'll hopefully have a lot more information to base your own opinions on. It's something I intend to keep updated too, so if you've seen an article or data you think should be included, post a link in the comments section, so it can be incorporated into the piece. On with the show! [...] Continua qui: *http://musically.com/2013/02/13/streaming-music-screwing-artists/*

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Corsera: "WIRELESS,Wi-Fi nei locali, il Garante «Gli esercenti,non sono responsabili di ciò che fanno i clienti»"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 15, 2013

Feb. 15, 2013

WIRELESS Wi-Fi nei locali, il Garante «Gli esercenti non sono responsabili di ciò che fanno i clienti» La risposta al quesito della federazione dei pubblici esercenti apre la strada al wireless nei locali pubblici Della questione si dibatteva da tempo. Perché in Italia i gestori dei locali pubblici non lasciano il Wi-Fi aperto a tutti e nel resto del mondo invece ci si può connettere senza problemi? Il motivo era semplice: i proprietari di ristoranti, bar e pub avevano paura di finire nei guai, se ritenuti responsabili di eventuali illeciti commessi dagli avventori. Ora, in risposta a un quesito posto da Fipe, la Federazione italiana pubblici esercizi aderente a Confcommercio, il Garante Privacy ha confermato quanto già stabilito dal decreto Milleproroghe del 2010, ossia che «i gestori dei locali che vogliono offrire ai loro clienti la connessione Wi-Fi gratuita ed eventualmente mettere a disposizione anche Pc e terminali di vario genere, sono sollevati da qualsiasi responsabilità rispetto alla navigazione dei loro clienti e, nel caso volessero entrare in possesso di informazioni più dettagliate, devono richiedere al consumatore di firmare l'autorizzazione al trattamento dei dati personali». [...] Continua qui: http://www.corriere.it/tecnologia/13_febbraio_14/wi-fi-pubblici-esercizi-ga…

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loophole4all
by Marco Ciurcina Feb. 15, 2013

Feb. 15, 2013

Interessante progetto http://loophole4all.com/ Che ne pensano i penalisti in lista? Segue il comunicato stampa http://loophole4all.com/press/Loophole4All_PR_15_02_2013.pdf Loophole for All Press Release. NYC, 15th February 2013. Paolo Cirio, contemporary artist and pirate, hacked the governmental servers of the Cayman Islands and stole a list of all the companies incorporated in the country, making it public for the first time. Now on Loophole4All.com he is selling the identities of those companies at a low cost to democratize the privileges of offshore businesses. Paolo hijacks the identities of more than 200,000 companies registered in the Cayman Islands by moving their addresses to his Caymans mailbox and issuing counterfeited certificates of incorporation from the Caymans company registry. This massive corporate identity theft benefits from the anonymous nature of those companies since the real owners’ secrecy allows anybody to impersonate them. In short, this project turns the main feature of offshore centers into a vulnerability. Through Loophole4All.com, anyone can hijack a Caymans company, from 99¢ for a certificate of incorporation for a real company to $49 for a mailbox in the offshore country with mail rerouting. Finally, small businesses and middle class people can invoice from the major offshore centers and avoid unfair taxes, legal responsibility and economic disruption in their own indebted home countries, in a form of global civil disobedience. For this operation, the artist set up a company in the City of London as a shield for legal persecution and to compete in the market against offshore centers. He utilizes aggressive business strategies for a political work of art and reverses corporate machination for creative subversive agendas. With the money generated by selling companies' identities, Paolo plans to expand his business into Bermuda, Jersey, the Seychelles, and Delaware, among others. Further, Paolo Cirio interviewed major experts and produced a video documentary investigating offshore centers, where he shares his extensive research and conclusions about offshore business: http://Loophole4All.com/how.php In the offline art installation, the paper trail of the project is displayed with prints of the documents of the scheme set up for the operation. Ultimately, the installation will be a low cost identity shop for offshore companies, and in doing so democratize both offshore business and the sale of subversive works of conceptual art. Quick notes: - The Cayman Islands are second only after Switzerland in the global Financial Secrecy Index. - The Caymans state is considered to be one of the major offshore centers for high finance and the global economy. - Among the several thousand anonymous companies in the Caymans you will find most of the major global multinationals, Chinese businesses, criminal organizations and all the major global banks. - There is neither real money in the Caymans nor a real market. Caymans companies are only booked on paper. - The Cayman Islands is a British crown colony situated 150 miles south of Cuba in the Caribbean Sea. In the next months you will find Paolo Cirio's works at: - ISEA 2013, keynote, Sydney - Australia - The Big Picture, exhibition at Contemporary Museum of Denver, Colorado - U.S. - Eastern Bloc festival, exhibition, Montreal - Canada - MediaCities festival, exhibition, Buffalo - U.S. - Public Private exhibition at Kellen Gallery of The New School, New York - U.S. Thanks for the attention.

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P2PF: "Against the simplistic conservatism of Evgeny Morozov: a network-theory critique"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 15, 2013

Feb. 15, 2013

Against the simplistic conservatism of Evgeny Morozov: a network-theory critique <http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/against-the-simplistic-conservatism-of-evgeny…> photo of Michel Bauwens Michel Bauwens 12th February 2013 *Con:* Morozov sees decentralization as a leisurely, unnecessary, and incompetent social experiment by people unwilling or unable to engage in the serious work of reform. I suspect such attitudes say more about Morozov's social circle than the subjects he claims to study. Moreover, he's convinced that the trial runs we've seen by the groups identified as "internet centrist", like Occupy and the Pirate Party, is already sufficient evidence for condemning the whole approach. He's quick to link the innovative strategies of these radical upstarts with collectivist thought and media analysis from decades before the Internet, to further suggest that the strategy has had plenty of time to mature and succeed, and has utterly failed to do so. On his one-dimensional analysis, the jury is basically already in: decentralization is functionally incompatible with organizational success. Morozov is convinced that the barbarians can't win; the only way to make Rome fall is to build a better Rome. The observations and anecdotes he has collected here might be a convincing argument for perpetuating the existing order, if centralization were the only dimension available for analyzing the structure of political institutions. *Pro:* Organizational structure and success is not a product of hierarchy and centralization any more than it is a product of decentralization and horizontalism. Organization and centrality are entirely distinct measures of a network. Successful organizations find ways to effectively execute sustaining functions by any means, and this requires both concentrating and distributing power in a variety of ways. Dogmatically clinging to any degree of centrality for an institution is meaningless without some explanation of the institution's functional role and methods for executing that role. Excerpted <http://digitalinterface.blogspot.com/2013/02/social-media-is-fact-of-life-f…> from *Daniel Estrada*: *A reply to Evgeny Morozov.* "There are two ways to be wrong about the internet. One is to argue it doesn't live up to its hype. Speculative futurism and unabashed mysticism have become commonplace in discussions of technological change, and it isn't hard to find people ready to claim that the internet is a panacea heralding everything up to and including immortality. In such an environment, one need only be moderately critical about the internet to position oneself as a pariah standing against a swarm of naive technoidealists. Democracy doesn't even work on Wikipedia, the argument goes, and so it is foolish to think that "liquid democracy" will change the form of legitimate governance (read: the nation-state) in any substantive way, hype be damned. The problem with such criticisms is that they treat the possibility of internet-generated change as all-or-nothing: either the internet meets the expectations of its most wide-eyed advocates, or it is a waste of time with all the sociopolitical importance of a video game. There's no room in this view for registering the subtle cultural shifts that can change the practice of legitimate governance over time, or for understanding how the ideals of extremists can change the discourse even when their ideals are not achieved. [...] Continua qui: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/against-the-simplistic-conservatism-of-evgeny…

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Open Data Day 2013 - Sabato 23 febbraio ore 11 presso il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società
by Giuseppe Futia Feb. 15, 2013

Feb. 15, 2013

Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/2013-open-data-day> NEXA Sabato 23 febbraio 2013, ore 11-12.30 Centro Nexa su Internet & Società Via Boggio 65/a, Torino (primo piano) http://nexa.polito.it/2013-open-data-day open_data_day Ingresso libero In occasione della terza edizione dell'International Open Data Day <http://opendataday.org/> che avrà luogo il *23 febbraio 2013*, il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società organizza un incontro in cui si discuteranno: le recenti innovazioni normative orientate all'Open Government Data in Italia, le politiche regionali per la promozione dei dati aperti in Piemonte, ma soprattutto casi concreti di possibili "riusi" da parte di start-up innovative, facendo brainstorming su quali dati pubblici possano essere integrati nei loro modelli di business e su come ottenere effettivamente tali dati. Durante l'incontro interverranno *Lorenzo Benussi*, consulente per la politica digitale del Ministro dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca e fellow del Centro Nexa, *Federico Morando*, managing director del Centro Nexa e lead di Creative Commons Italia, e *Massimiliano Ceaglio*, project manager del progetto TreataBit <http://www.treatabit.com/> dell'Incubatore di Imprese Innovative del Politecnico di Torino <http://www.i3p.it/>, insieme ad alcuni *rappresentanti di start-up* incubate. L'incontro di Torino si inscrive nell'ambito del primo Open Data Day in Italia <http://opendataday.it/> e si affianca a *workshop e hackathon sul tema Open Data* che si svolgeranno in tutta Italia il 22 e il 23 febbraio. Parte dell'incontro torinese sarà seguito in streaming a Cagliari e Roma, dove verrà ospitato l'evento principale e si discuteranno i risultati delle attività svolte finora dai gruppi di lavoro nati in questi mesi a sostegno dell'*Agenzia per l'Italia digitale*. Per maggiori informazioni su International Open Data Day Italia potete consultare il sito: http://opendataday.it/. Il portale internazionale è disponibile all'indirizzo: http://opendataday.org/. Che cos'è l'International Open Data Day e quali sono gli obiettivi dell'edizione italiana L'iniziativa "International Open Data Day" intende radunare e coinvolgere i cittadini di tutto il mondo per scrivere applicazioni, creare visualizzazioni e proporre analisi basate sui dati aperti delle amministrazioni pubbliche, per incoraggiare politiche di adozione degli Open Data da parte di governi locali, regionali e nazionali. In Italia, l'obiettivo perseguito in questi mesi (il primo incontro si è svolto il 5 dicembre 2012 a Bologna, il secondo a Roma, presso l'ACS il 25 gennaio 2013) è stato quello di promuovere la costituzione di veri e propri gruppi di lavoro operativi che potessero elaborare una documentazione condivisa su alcuni temi riguardanti gli Open Data e approfondimenti tecnico/operativi su argomenti specifici, valorizzando le esperienze realizzate finora in Italia. Censire le esperienze avviando un'indagine sull'uso degli Open Data, identificare le /best practices/ al fine di supportare gli obiettivi di interoperabilità semantica individuati dalle linee guida dell'SPC per promuovere il passaggio dall'Open Data al Linked Open Data nella pubblica amministrazione: queste alcune delle attività svolte dai gruppi di lavoro da dicembre in poi, in vista dell'appuntamento del 23 febbraio 2013. 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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Commons Cafe` su Internet e beni comuni
by dd.r. Feb. 14, 2013

Feb. 14, 2013

ciao a tutt* volevo segnalare agli iscritti romani della lista che domani alle 18 al Teatro Valle Occupato ci sara` un appuntamento su "Digital Commons: Internet bene comune" al quale partecipa Arturo di Corinto http://www.teatrovalleoccupato.it/commons-cafe-digital-commons-il-futuro-di… siete tutti invitati a partecipare e, anzi, se qualcuno di voi su roma o qualcuno di passaggio a roma (come e` stato con JC De Martin, grazie ancora!) vuole proporre temi e persone siete i benvenuti. Sto cercando di dare una mano al Valle, una realta` che rispetto molto, a costruire uno spazio di riflessione sulle tematiche di cui voi tutti molto attivamente vi interessate, per cui i vostri suggerimenti sono preziosi grazie mille e a domani con Arturo e con quanti di voi vorranno unirsi donatella

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FabLab Torino compie un anno!
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 14, 2013

Feb. 14, 2013

http://toolboxtorino.blogspot.it/2013/02/15022013-fablab-torino-compie-un-a… Domani alle 19. jc

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Demos: "New political actors in Europe: Beppe Grillo and the M5S"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 14, 2013

Feb. 14, 2013

http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/newpoliticalactorsineuropebeppegrilloan… New political actors in Europe: Beppe Grillo and the M5S New social and political movements from radically different political positions are emerging across Europe using social media, posing a new challenge to existing political parties and structures. The Pirate Party in Germany and the Occupy movement are examples of movements that have employed social media to grow rapidly and create a significant political and social impact -- all in the last three years. Beppe Grillo, the Italian comedian and blogger, is one of the first political figures to have embraced this change. He has used social media to communicate, recruit and organise, growing the Moviment 5 Stelle from practically nothing to a major political force in Italy in the space of three years, with it expected to play a crucial role in the 2013 Italian elections. His anti-establishment message has resonated with many against a backdrop of declining trust in political institutions, falling political party membership and ever-lower voter turnout. This report presents the results of a survey of 1,865 Facebook fans of Beppe Grillo and the Movimento 5 Stelle. It includes data on who they are, what they think, and what motivates them to shift from virtual to real-world activism. It also compares them with other similar parties in Western Europe and their attitudes to those of the Italian population. This report is the seventh in a series of country specific briefings about the online support of populist parties across Europe. Authors Jamie Bartlett, Mark Littler, Duncan McDonnell, Caterina Froio Publication Type Report Publication Date 2013-02-14 ISBN 978-1-909037-33-5 Cost 10.0 Project * Populism in Europe <http://www.demos.co.uk/projects/thefarrightineurope> Download for free <http://www.demos.co.uk/files/Beppe_Grillo_and_the_M5S_-_Demos_web_version.p…>

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Che le smart cities siano democratiche (da Advice to OfCom)
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 13, 2013

Feb. 13, 2013

http://advicetoofcom.org.uk/blog/2013/02/rise-and-rise-city [...] But as Leo Hollis writes in the New Statesman (A tale of the City Told by your Phone, January 2013), if we accept this growing international significance of the city, then *"As a result who owns the virtual information space of the city will be as important as who owns the actual fabric"*. It is connectivity that gives us the ability to understand and mediate the city. And this is the key issue.*If cities are prime movers for mankind's future, it is important that they are democratic movers.* And already the cost and complexity of technology is disenfranchising. [...] Enfasi mia. juan carlos

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UNESCO: Global Survey on Internet Privacy and Freedom of Expression
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 13, 2013

Feb. 13, 2013

http://www.unesco.org/new/internet-privacy-and-foe Global survey on Internet privacy and freedom of expression *This publication seeks to identify the relationship between freedom of expression and Internet privacy, assessing where they support or compete with each other in different circumstances. The book maps out the issues in the current regulatory landscape of Internet privacy from the viewpoint of freedom of expression. It provides an overview of legal protection, self-regulatory guidelines, normative challenges, and case studies relating to the topic.* With this publication UNESCO aims to provide its Member States and other stakeholders, national and international, with a useful reference tool containing up-to-date and sharp information on emerging issues relevant to both developed and developing countries. Multiple stakeholders, preferably in dialogue, can use it in their own spheres of operation, adapting where appropriate from the range of experiences as recorded in these pages. The publication also supplies additional sources of reference for interested readers to use to further investigate each of the subjects highlighted. The publication explores a range of issues, such as: * threats to privacy that have developed through the Internet, * international legal standards on privacy and responses to these emerging issues, * complex intersections between the rights to privacy and freedom of expression, * UNESCO recommendations to states and corporations for better practice, * overview of literature, background material and tools on international and national policy and practice on privacy and freedom of expression on the Internet. In the coming years, UNESCO will specifically seek to disseminate information about good practices and international collaboration concerning the points of intersection between freedom of expression and privacy. Research on safeguarding the principle of freedom of expression in Internet policy across a range of issues will continue to be part of UNESCO's normative mandate and technical advice to stakeholders. Download (English) Full version <http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002182/218273e.pdf> Executive summary <http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002182/218273e.pdf#page=8> 1. Introduction <http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002182/218273e.pdf#page=10> 2. Global overview of challenges and opportunities for privacy protection on the Internet <http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002182/218273e.pdf#page=23> 3. The global legal and regulatory environment for protection of privacy <http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002182/218273e.pdf#page=51> 4. Conclusions -- intersections between privacy and freedom of expression <http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002182/218273e.pdf#page=96> 5. Policy recommendations <http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002182/218273e.pdf#page=106> 6. Useful resources <http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002182/218273e.pdf#page=118> Details * Bibliographic reference <http://www.unesco.org/ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=218273> * Collation: 144 p. * Author(s): Mendel, Toby; Puddephatt, Andrew; Wagner, Ben; Hawtin, Dixie; Torres, Natalia * Publication year: 2012 <http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/public…> * ISBN: 978-92-3-104241-6 * Series : UNESCO series on Internet Freedom

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