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Court of Justice Advocate General opinion today favors interoperability
by Emanuela Arezzo Nov. 29, 2011

Nov. 29, 2011

penso sia di vostro interesse! Emanuela Arezzo Osservatorio di Proprietà Intellettuale, Concorrenza e Comunicazioni, Università Luiss Guido Carli, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza. via parenzo n. 11, 00198 Roma tel: +39.06.85225.829 email: earezzo(a)luiss.it website: http://docenti.luiss.it/arezzo Be environment-friendly: don't print this message unless strictly necessary.

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Paper: analisi delle licenze CC non commerciali
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 29, 2011

Nov. 29, 2011

Creative Commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information Gregor Hagedorn1, Daniel Mietchen2, Robert A. Morris3, Donat Agosti4, Lyubomir Penev5, Walter G. Berendsohn6, Donald Hobern7 Corresponding author: Gregor Hagedorn (g.m.hagedorn(a)gmail.com <mailto:g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com>) Academic editor: V. Smith Received3 October 2011|Accepted22 November 2011|Published28 November 2011 (C) 2011 Gregor Hagedorn. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of theCreative Commons Attribution License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. For reference, use of the paginated PDF or printed version of this article is recommended. Abstract The Creative Commons (CC) licenses are a suite of copyright-based licenses defining terms for the distribution and re-use of creative works. CC provides licenses for different use cases and includes open content licenses such as the Attribution license (CC BY, used by many Open Access scientific publishers) and the Attribution Share Alike license (CC BY-SA, used by Wikipedia, for example). However, the license suite also contains non-free and non-open licenses like those containing a "non-commercial" (NC) condition. Although many people identify "non-commercial" with "non-profit", detailed analysis reveals that significant differences exist and that the license may impose some unexpected re-use limitations on works thus licensed. After providing background information on the concepts of Creative Commons licenses in general, this contribution focuses on the NC condition, its advantages, disadvantages and appropriate scope. Specifically, it contributes material towards a risk analysis for potential re-users of NC-licensed works. http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/2189/creative-commons-licen…

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Blengino su Radio 3 Scienza
by avv. Monica Alessia Senor Nov. 25, 2011

Nov. 25, 2011

Per chi fosse interessato, su Radio 3 Scienza, oggi alle ore 11.00, Carlo commenterà in diretta la sentenza Scarlet vs. SABAM Un caro saluto Monica

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Released Neubot 0.4.5
by Simone Basso Nov. 24, 2011

Nov. 24, 2011

Released Neubot 0.4.5 http://www.neubot.org/neubot-0.4.5 Version 0.4.5 is the latest generally-available stable release of Neubot, distributed for Ubuntu >= 10.04, MacOSX >= 10.6, Windows >= XP SP3 and FreeBSD as well as in source format (.tar.gz and .zip). The release contains 94 patches. The diffstat says: 148 files changed, with 5706 lines inserted and 4591 lines deleted. Here are the most relevant changes: o UNIX: specify clearly what Neubot under UNIX should be. Under UNIX Neubot is made of three components: the daemon, the viewer and the notifier. The daemon runs in background, runs tests, exports its state and recent results on 127.0.0.1 (and depends on Python). The viewer is a WebKit- and Gtk-based Python component that connects to the daemon and shows the web user interface. The notifier is a PyNotify-based Python component that periodically checks the daemon state and, eventually, notifies the user (for example when the privacy is not OK but of course we plan to do more with it). This bundle of features is, in my opinion, the Neubot experience and this is what should be installed when a users installs "neubot". That said, of course there are special cases, such when one does not have X on her UNIX machine. In such cases, it obviously would be crazy to pull all those dependencies and a "-nox" flavor of the package should be available. If the viewer (or notifier) component of the "-nox" package flavor is invoked, it should just print an error message and exit. Of course, in the "-nox" case one can still point its browser to http://127.0.0.1:9774/ and control Neubot. To communicate that "neubot" is actually the feature bundle, I have replaced the neubot_gui and neubot_notify external commands with two internal commands, `neubot viewer` and `neubot notifier`. Here the model is `vim`, which is always one command but behaves differently depending on packaging. Rather than, say, `git` and `gitk`, which are two distinct packages. Pursuing this vision, I have simplified a lot the Makefile, made sure that all functionalities are available on all UNIX platforms (for example in previous release neubot_gui and neubot_notify were available only for Debian) and added hooks to simplify the work of packagers. You just need to specify the proper BINDIR, MANDIR etc. when invoking make(1) to customize the place where you install stuff. The only thing I've not added is a hook to specify the location of the database. Neubot was written with the BSD hier(7) in mind, and /var/neubot is OK under this convention. In the GNU/Linux world, the proper location would be /var/lib/neubot. I will do that in the 0.4.6 release cycle. o Debian: specify all deps and fork out a -nox package flavor. Coherently with the clear specification of Neubot under UNIX I've added all the needed dependencies (python-webkit, pynotify) to the Debian package control file. And I have created a "-nox" flavor of the package, which basically just does not list such dependencies. If you have already installed Neubot on a Debian without X or without Gnome, you upgrade and you find that you need to install a lot of unwanted deps then I suggest to uninstall Neubot and then download and install the `neubot-nox` package. This can be automated, for example, as follows:: sudo dpkg -r neubot && \ wget http://releases.neubot.org/_packages/neubot-nox-0.4.5-1_all.deb && \ sudo dpkg -i neubot-nox-0.4.5-1_all.deb From that point on, neubot-nox should stay uptodate. o negotiate: rewrite server-side negotiation. The negotiator is the server-side Neubot component that enqueues clients that want to perform a test, negotiates parameters, provides test code with the list of authorized clients and collects the results. BitTorrent and speedtest had two different negotiation mechanisms and speedtest one was not always reliable. During last month I have modified heavily BitTorrent negotiation, I migrated speedtest to use it and got rid of the old negotiator code. o MacOS: do not show Neubot pseudo-user in login screen. As reported by many, when you install Neubot on MacOSX the Neubot user appears in the login screen. Starting from this release, this will be no longer the case, both for new users and for users that have already installed Neubot. In the latter case, Neubot will automatically update and fix the problem during the update process. o UNIX: remove start-neubot-daemon command. Advising installing-from-sources folks to use Python's full path in their /etc/rc.local is much better than rolling out one command to do that. Especially given that the way to go is, of course, to provide more packages and/or be added to distributions repositories. o www: allow to force web user interface language. Now there is one more configuration variable in settings.html, named `www.lang`. The default value of this variable is (unsurprisingly) 'default' and means "use whathever language is configured by the browser". You can set it to 'it' and 'en' to enforce Italian and English language respectively. Setting it to a language for which a translation does not exist causes the web interface to show messages in English. I've added this new setting because from the viewer you have otherwise no way to set the default language, given that it is a very simple Python application, which basically just embeds WebKit into a Gtk window. Thanks to Alessio Palmero Aprosio, who done part of the work. o privacy: don't fail on UNIX when /var/neubot does not exist. The privacy command was assuming /var/neubot existed, which is not true in one case. Namely, when the MacOS installer is setting up the environment before starting Neubot for the first time. Thanks to Francesco Corazza for pointing this out. The fix is to use neubot.database DATABASE interface to create the database. Some more work should be done, because, as of now, the code assumes /var/neubot/database.sqlite3 is either opened by root or by the _neubot user. So, there may be surprises if you employ this command to print privacy settings as a normal user. o server: add looking glass to inspect internals. While testing the new negotiate code, I wrote a lot of instrumentation to inspect Neubot server internals. This has not a tangible effect for users, still I would like to mention it because this piece of code is something that allows more control of the server. Which, in turn, allows me to have more insight and provide a better service. For example, using this code I noticed that there was a certain amount of queueing and decided to bump the parallelism from 3 to 7. o simplejson: update to version 2.2.0. o code rationalizations, cleanups and regression tests. Packages and source archives available here: http://www.neubot.org/download ChangeLog here: https://raw.github.com/neubot/neubot/0.4.5/ChangeLog Commit history here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commits/0.4.5 SHA256sums here: https://raw.github.com/neubot/neubot-sha256s/master/0.4.5/SHA256 Data here: http://www.neubot.org/data Thank you, Simone <http://www.neubot.org/people#basso>

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convegno gratuito su ICT e PMI al Politecnico 25 novembre 2011
by Mauro Alovisio Nov. 24, 2011

Nov. 24, 2011

gent.me/mi segnalo interessante convegno gratuito domani 25 novembre al Politecnico dalle ore 9,30 alle ore 18,30 a cura dell'associazione ICTdott. commercialisti ad oggetto: "ICT e PMI: senza carta con le nuove norme" con relazione del Direttore Generale DigitPa, Giorgio De Rita sul Cad, della prof,ssa Mariella Guercio sull'archivio informatico nelle imprese e con approfondimenti e interventi su archivi digitali, fatturazione elettronica, cloud computing, privacy, agenda digitale europea. http://www.taxlawplanet.net/documenti/pdf_convegno_finale_def.pdf I materiali del convegno saranno pubblicati on line cordiali saluti Mauro Alovisio

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LAPSI Public Conference January 2012 - LAPSI Award ( you still have 1 month to apply)
by Cristiana Sappa Nov. 24, 2011

Nov. 24, 2011

The LAPSI Thematic Network is currently organizing its 2ndPublic Conferencethat will take place in Bruxelles, on 23rdand 24th January 2012. The two-day meeting will give the opportunity to publicly present the state of the art of the LAPSI policy recommendations on Public Sector Information (PSI) re-use. The featured policies focus on some of the major legal topics involved with the re-use of PSI; in particular, intellectual property rights issues, privacy, data protection and personal data processing, competition law aspects. The LAPSI members will discuss their policies together with external discussants and experts in the field of PSI, as well as with stakeholders and citizens who want to broaden their knowledge around the topics of PSI and Open Data. The LAPSI 2nd Public Conference on-line registration is available at: http://lapsi-conf02.eventbrite.com/ The 2nd Public Conference will be held at the University Foundation, Bruxelles – Salle Félicien Cattier, rue d'egmont 11, 1000 Bruxelles. The draft version of the meeting program is available at: http://www.lapsi-project.eu/bruxellesprog In addition to the scheduled activites, the winner of the 3rdLAPSI Award on the most user-friendly design of a PSI portal in the EU will be announced during the second day of the Public Conference. Since PSI availability is crucial for fostering re-use initiatives, the very purpose of the Award is to support any initiative which can be beneficial to PSI re-use policies for moving forward. The Award is open to public sector bodies, businesses and citizens who designed or manage a PSI portal in the EU. Apanel of experts will evaluate the submitted projects with regard to the user-friendly design of the portal; the originality and the layout appeal of the portal; the efficacy of the portal in facilitating the access of the PSI; the efficacy of the portal in fostering the awareness on legal aspects of PSI (such as competition, data protection and privacy, intellectual property rights). The Award has received the support of the Italian Infocamere(http://www.infocamere.it/) and as a result, the most user-friendly design of a PSI portal will be rewarded with a prize of 1,000 Euros. Application must be submitted in English by 23rdof December 2011 (16:00 hrs CET). The Call for applications is available at: http://www.lapsi-project.eu/call2 The Submission form is available at: http://www.lapsi-project.eu/form2 LAPSIis the European Thematic Network studying Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information Re-use. It intends to build a network apt to become the main European point of reference for high-level policy discussions and strategic action on all legal issues related to the access and the re-use of the PSI, namely in the digital environment. The LAPSI Thematic Network is aimed to produced policy recommendations in view of the impact assessment exercise linked to the revision of the Directive 2003/98/EC scheduled for 2012.More info at: http://www.lapsi-project.eu/ Cristiana Sappa Project Manager, LAPSI, www.lapsi-project.eu, and EVPSI, www.evpsi.org Postdoctoral Researcher, Torino Law School Research Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet and Society, http://nexa.polito.it

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Decisione della Corte di Giustizia Europea nel caso SABAM / Scarlet
by Marco Pancini Nov. 24, 2011

Nov. 24, 2011

Buone notizie dal Lussemburgo: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2011-11/cp110126en.… *EU law precludes the imposition of an injunction by a national court which requires an internet service provider to install a filtering system with a view to preventing the illegal downloading of file.* -- 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. -- 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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Incontro "Internet Memoria e Futuro" - Trento, 24 novembre 2011
by Giuseppe Futia Nov. 24, 2011

Nov. 24, 2011

*"Internet, Memoria e Futuro <http://thesemanticway.fbk.eu/internetmemoriaefuturo>*segna la chiusura di un progetto di ricerca triennale, LiveMemories <http://www.livememories.org/>, con l'intento di raccogliere e condividere i risultati raggiunti. Il coinvolgimento di numerosi partner territoriali - data provider, aziende e istituzioni - testimonia il percorso fatto, e allo stesso tempo indica una strada ancora da percorrere: la /Semantic Way/ sulla quale intraprendere le sfide delle applicazioni delle tecnologie semantiche per i prossimi anni". Tra gli interventi proposti <http://thesemanticway.fbk.eu/programma>,*Federico Morando, Managing Director e Research Fellow del Centro NEXA su Internet & Società, relazionerà sul tema dell'Open Data*. -- Giuseppe Futia Communications Manager NEXA Center for Internet& Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino http://nexa.polito.it E-mail: giuseppe.futia(a)polito.it Tel. +39 3331103017

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Fwd: [A2k] Dutch parliament refuses ACTA secrecy
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 23, 2011

Nov. 23, 2011

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [A2k] Dutch parliament refuses ACTA secrecy Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:32:10 +0100 From: Ante <ante(a)ffii.org> Reply-To: ante(a)ffii.org To: a2k(a)lists.keionline.org, ip-health(a)lists.keionline.org Dutch parliament refuses ACTA secrecy http://acta.ffii.org/?p=924 with links November 23, 2011 By Ante On the same day that the European Parliament had its first secret meeting on ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), the Dutch parliament decided it will not take ACTA into consideration unless all ACTA negotiation texts are published. A few weeks ago, the Dutch House of Representatives’ committee of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation requested the ACTA negotiation texts (the earlier versions of ACTA). The minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, Maxime Verhagen, sent the texts to parliament, adding a non disclosure obligation. In debates, Members of Parliament may not refer to the documents, nor quote from them. Sunday, Bits of Freedom sent a letter to the committee, asking the committee not to accept the secrecy. Committee member Kees Verhoeven (D66) proposed a message from the committee to the minister that no substantive treatment of any ACTA document can be made without publication of all relevant documents and above all that the committee can discus all documents in public. According to experts, the treaty has major implications for Dutch legislation (eg on copyright and Internet freedoms) and the House can’t at the moment consult experts nor can it inform the public about ACTA’s consequences, since ACTA is partly confidential. For this reason, the committee also requests the minister not to take irreversible steps, neither in Europe and nor in the Netherlands, in terms of ACTA. And towards the commission itself, the proposal to temporarily withdraw all ACTA related documents from the agenda until the minister discloses all documents. Bits of Freedom reports a majority in the Dutch House of Representatives (D66, PVV, GroenLinks, SP and PvdA) adopted the proposal. Meanwhile in Brussels, the European Parliament International Trade committee (INTA) held a highly controversial in-camera meeting to learn what the legal service of the European Parliament thinks of ACTA. On 9 November, the FFII had send an open letter to the Chairman of the Committee on International Trade (INTA), in which the FFII objected to the planned in-camera meeting on the 23th. On 12 November the INTA chairman defended the secrecy in a letter to the FFII. 7 civil society groups asked for European Parliament transparency on ACTA on the 17th. On Friday the 18th, the Parliament refused to disclose the legal service’s opinion on ACTA, “disclosure would undermine the protection of the public interest as regards international relations”. On Sunday, the FFII filed a confirmatory application for legal service’s opinion on ACTA. According to the FFII, the argument that disclosure of the opinion would undermine international relations is totally overstretched. The Parliament’s second reason violates the European Court of Justice case law (Turco case), and the third argument lacks substance. On Monday 21th, sources in Parliament reported the meeting was postponed. But on Wednesday the 23th, the meeting was on. Henrik Alexandersson, assistant to Christian Engstrom, reports on his blog: - Controversial INTA meeting on ACTA held in camera today 23 November despite protests from Civil Society. - Previous decision to postpone the meeting annulled yesterday night by INTA Coordinators. - Vote on holding the meeting in public was denied. After 4 European Parliament resolutions asking for ACTA transparency, the Parliament now took the decision to keep the legal service’s opinion confidential. And to meet in-camera. This whole show will be repeated soon: the Legal Affairs Committee asked for a legal service’s opinion as well. A partly secret ratification process… How deep do you want to sink? The European Parliament should take a good look at the Dutch Parliament’s example. _______________________________________________ A2k mailing list A2k(a)lists.keionline.org http://lists.keionline.org/mailman/listinfo/a2k_lists.keionline.org

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Aiutare RespectMyNet a mappare violazioni NN in Italia
by Simone Basso Nov. 23, 2011

Nov. 23, 2011

Ricevo e, con piacere, inoltro questa richiesta di aiuto da parte di Axel Simon di La Quadrature Du Net, che si occupa del sito Respect My Net. Respect My Net (http://respectmynet.eu/) si propone di raccogliere e pubblicare segnalazioni di violazione della neutralita` della rete in Europa. Permettendo agli utenti di confermare le segnalazioni postate da altri utenti. Con l'obiettivo di dimostrare che c'e` un problema di neutralita` della rete in Europa. Come ricercatore e sviluppatore di Neubot.org trovo questo approccio molto interessante e penso che il sito meriti tutto l'appoggio possibile. In passato le violazioni della neutralita` della rete sono state scoperte da utenti curiosi che hanno investigato e postato sul web le loro scoperte. Centralizzando queste informazioni Respect My Net puo` diventare una miniera d'oro per chi vuole fare ricerca sulla neutralita` della rete. Operativamente, come si puo` fare a dare una mano? Certe violazioni della neutralita` della rete sono tricky da identificare, altre lo sono molto meno. Sto pensando per esempio a domini bloccati via DNS, all'impossibilita` di usare Skype via cellulare, etc. Adesso sono al Poli e non ho niente da rimproverare dalla rete del GARR. Piu` tardi quando torno a casa vedo che cosa posso fare, banalmente cercando ad esempio di capire se i problemi riportati per altri paesi e operatori si verificano anche da casa mia e/o usando la mia connessione 3G. Grazie, Simone <http://www.neubot.org/> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RespectMyNet evidence, confirmations Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:21:12 +0100 From: Axel Simon - La Quadrature du Net <as(a)laquadrature.net> Organization: La Quadrature du Net To: bassosimone(a)gmail.com Hi Simone, First of all, thanks for working on Neubot. Great stuff! I'm part of the people working on RespectMyNet.eu, so I thought I'd send you an email about the current goal. As you probably know, BEREC is working on a report requested by the Commission about the factual Net Neutrality situation in Europe. If we are to prove to BEREC, and to the Commission, that there are indeed many cases of Net Neutrality violations all over Europe, and that a wait-and-see approach just won't cut it, we need evidence. So RespectMyNet.eu was launched with that intent. So far, we have quite a few reports, and a lot of the violations in different plans and contracts around Europe covered, but we are lacking two things: - confirmations - verification / validation We have been asking French citizens to confirm French operators' violations, but we need help to get more violations confirmed, and to have as many confirmation as possible. The numbers will really help show BEREC how widespread violations are and the scale of the problem. It would be great if you could ask your community to confirm the cases reported for your contry (as well as reporting any violation not already reported of course). The cases are here : http://respectmynet.eu/list Can you help us on this? :) The cases can also be sorted by country: http://respectmynet.eu/list/IT/ and then by operator: http://respectmynet.eu/list/IT/Telecom%20Italia There aren't many Italian cases yet, but I'm sure you can help solve that! LQDN is meeting with BEREC in 2 weeks, so having as many confirmations as possible by that time will be immensely helpful. Finally, once the cases are confirmed, we will still need to verify them before we can validate them. This basically means checking ourselves or finding trusted hackers to do so. We are still considering the best way of doing this, but it will clearly require some work. Given your experience with Neubot, you might have good ideas about how to go about this. Last thing, are you on the RespectMyList mailing list? https://laquadrature.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nnmon Thanks a lot for your help, let me know if I can help in any way. Take Care, axel -- Axel Simon Campaigner / La Quadrature du Net http://www.laquadrature.net | email: as(a)laquadrature.net phone: +33 (0)6 08 04 01 44 | twitter/identi.ca: @AxelSimon

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