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"Occupy the public domain"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 22, 2012

Feb. 22, 2012

Occupy the public domain Jennifer E. Rothman Monday, February 6, 2012 If you celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by watching the "I Have a Dream" speech on YouTube, you broke the law. Or at least that's what the Martin Luther King Jr. estate contends. It claims that if you want to legally watch a video of the Rev. King's copyrighted speech - one of the most important speeches in our country's history - you need to pay its foundation $10. Instead of providing for sharing such important moments, our government has been complicit in endorsing a vision of copyright law in which nothing is free for use by the public. [...] Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/05/EDT01N30MS.DTL#…

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Se diffamazione e ingiurie non saranno più perseguite...il web saà più libero?
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Feb. 22, 2012

Feb. 22, 2012

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ACTA referred to the CJEU by the EU Commission
by Marco Pancini Feb. 22, 2012

Feb. 22, 2012

http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=778 Try again: http://www.piracyactnamegenerator.com/ -- Marco Pancini | Senior Policy Counsel | pancini(a)google.com | +32.28948492 +32.473531203 This email may be confidential or privileged. If you received this communication by mistake, please don't forward it to anyone else, please erase all copies and attachments, and please let me know that it went to the wrong person. Thanks.

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Fwd: [opennetcoalition] ECJ Referral: No Legal Debate Will Make ACTA Legitimate
by Paolo Brini Feb. 22, 2012

Feb. 22, 2012

-------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: [opennetcoalition] ECJ Referral: No Legal Debate Will Make ACTA Legitimate Data: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:04:40 +0100 Mittente: La Quadrature du Net <jz(a)laquadrature.net> Rispondi-a: opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net A: opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net Themes: La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release Permanent link: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/ecj-referral-no-legal-debate-will-make-acta… ECJ Referral: No Legal Debate Will Make ACTA Legitimate *** Paris, February 22nd – The European Commission just announced its intent to ask the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for an opinion on the conformity of ACTA with fundamental freedoms. Beyond the obvious intent to defuse the heated debate currently taking place, this move aims to make the ACTA discussion a mere legal issue, when the main concerns are political by nature. *** While the EU Commission has consistently refused to undergo an impact assessment of ACTA on fundamental freedoms, it is now scared of the growing citizen opposition to ACTA and has decided to buy time. Even if the the ECJ referral text has not yet been published, its announced framing is narrow and legalistic in nature. Important questions will not be asked, and therefore be left unanswered: * Can a wide-ranging interpretation of ACTA's criminal sanctions (for “infringement on a commercial scale”, including “aiding and abetting”) be used as a bullying weapon by the copyright industry, to force Internet actors into deploying contract-based repressive measures? * What will be the impact on EU policy-making and public debate of casting in stone current repressive policies for which an impact study is still expected, and that are heavily criticized (such as the EUCD and IPRED)? * Can such a body of policies, impacting EU policy-making, the free flow of information and the freedom to conduct business on the Internet be negotiated instead of democratically debated, and yet be legitimate? * Is ACTA necessary as we are facing an open conflict between repressive copyright policies and fundamental freedoms, and that other paths could be taken, such as a positive reform taking into account new cultural practices? “The European Commission asks the wrong questions, because it is afraid of getting the right answers. It tries to prevent the Court from assessing ACTA's impact on fundamental rights by also looking at how it will interact with existing EU law and the announced revisions of the IPRED and “Online Services” directives. With this wider perspective, ACTA's harmful effects on fundamental rights become so obvious that a referral is not even needed.” declared Philippe Aigrain, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net. “ACTA is dangerous because it aims at circumventing democracy, and because its vague wording can be interpreted in so many repressive ways by the signatories and judges. The Commission seems afraid that the heated ACTA debate and the growing recognition that the present system is broken will lead to a highly needed copyright reform for the benefit of art, culture and innovation in the digital era. No legal debate can fix ACTA or give it a legitimacy that by design it cannot have.” concluded Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesperson for the citizen organization. ** About la Quadrature du Net ** La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group that defends the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. More specifically, it advocates for the adaptation of French and European legislations to respect the founding principles of the Internet, most notably the free circulation of knowledge. In addition to its advocacy work, the group also aims to foster a better understanding of legislative processes among citizens. Through specific and pertinent information and tools, La Quadrature du Net hopes to encourage citizens' participation in the public debate on rights and freedoms in the digital age. La Quadrature du Net is supported by French, European and international NGOs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Open Society Institute and Privacy International. List of supporting organisations: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/they-support-la-quadrature-du-net ** Press contact and press room ** Jérémie Zimmermann, jz(a)laquadrature.net, +33 (0)615 940 675 http://www.laquadrature.net/en/press-room _______________________________________________ Opennetcoalition mailing list Opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net https://laquadrature.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opennetcoalition

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Economia digitale: gli editori francesi chiedono di tassare i player del web per salvare la stampa
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Feb. 22, 2012

Feb. 22, 2012

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NYTimes: "Drones in Afghanistan, Drones in … Akron?"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 22, 2012

Feb. 22, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/02/20/civilian-drones-in-the-unit… Background: www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/technology/drones-with-an-eye-on-the-public-clea… http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/drones-may-set-off-a-flurry-of-law… juan carlos

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"Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 21, 2012

Feb. 21, 2012

*Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal* By Adrian Hon Last updated: February 20th, 2012 On Tuesday 14th, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) posted a message on RnBXclusive.com, stating: "If you have downloaded music using this website you may have committed a criminal offence which carries a maximum penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment and an unlimited fine under UK law." SOCA's threat is a stirring defence of what we hold dear in this country -- the right of a creator to benefit from their intellectual property, whether it be a song, book, film, or game. Without this assurance of compensation, we might not see any new creative works being produced at all, and so it's for this reason that we've continually lengthened copyright terms from 14-28 years as set out by the Statue of Anne in 1710 to "lifetime plus 70 years" today. Yet now, as we've instituted decade-long jail terms and unlimited fines for copyright infringers, it's time to take the next step in extending copyright terms even further. [...] Continua qui: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/100007156/infinite-copyri…

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The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom
by fabio chiusi Feb. 21, 2012

Feb. 21, 2012

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204792404577229074023195322.h… Qualcuno sa chi è il responsabile per l'Italia dentro ITU? f.

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Approvato il Radio Spectrum Policy Program
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Feb. 20, 2012

Feb. 20, 2012

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Fwd: Debian Position on Software Patents
by Pier Paolo Feb. 20, 2012

Feb. 20, 2012

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack(a)debian.org> Date: 2012/2/19 Subject: Debian Position on Software Patents To: debian-announce(a)lists.debian.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Position on Software Patents press(a)lists.debian.org February 19th, 2012 http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120219 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Position on Software Patents The Debian Project announces the availability of its [1] patent policy for the Debian archive. 1: http://www.debian.org/legal/patent The Debian Project maintains a critical stance towards software patents: we consider software patents to be a threat to Free Software and an obstacle to the Debian mission of providing an entirely Free operating system for everyone's use. We believe software patents provide no advantage in promoting software innovation and we encourage our upstream authors to object to software patents. At the same time, given the de facto possibility of patenting software-related ideas in several countries around the world, it is important to neither underestimate nor overestimate software patent issues. We are particularly concerned about patent FUD and we have worked to improve clarity on the subject. After the publication of the [2] Community Distribution Patent Policy FAQ, the availability of a patent policy for the Debian archive is our next step in coping with the software patent system that we hope to see abolished. We thank lawyers at the [3] Software Freedom Law Center for working with us on this policy. 2: http://www.debian.org/reports/patent-faq 3: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ "Patent Aggression is widespread throughout the information technology industry at present", said Eben Moglen, founding director of the Software Freedom Law Center. "Parties have spent billions of dollars trying to use patent monopolies to halt innovation and threaten innovators. With the adoption of this patent policy Debian prepares to defend its developers and users more effectively, forcefully, and knowledgeably." Debian Project Leader Stefano Zacchiroli said "The Debian Project has a long tradition of standing up for users' rights to an entirely Free operating system. Patent fears, uncertainties and doubts undermine this. A patent policy and a contact point for related issues in the Debian archive will help reducing patent FUD among our users." About Debian ------------ The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system" . Contact Information ------------------- For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <press(a)debian.org>. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-announce-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120219181839.GA1898@zouish.org

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