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[NEXA]U.S. Copyright Czar Cozied Up to Content Industry, E-Mails Show | Threat Level | Wired.com
by vale.it.newsletters＠gmail.com Oct. 14, 2011

Oct. 14, 2011

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/copyright-czar-cozies-up U.S. Copyright Czar Cozied Up to Content Industry, E-Mails Show

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TorrentFreak: "European Greens Want to Legalize File-Sharing, Ban DRM"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 14, 2011

Oct. 14, 2011

Segnalo quanto segue, commentando che nel caffè di Cambridge (Boston) in cui mi trovo la pagina era inaccessibile perchè censurata dal provider in quanto relativa a P2P: incredibile e vergognoso. Un esempio concreto di a cosa potrebbe portare una più ampia censura in Rete. juan carlos European Greens Want to Legalize File-Sharing, Ban DRM <http://torrentfreak.com/european-greens-want-to-legalize-file-sharing-ban-d…> * Ernesto <http://torrentfreak.com/author/ernesto/> * October 7, 2011 * http://torrentfreak.com/european-greens-want-to-legalize-file-sharing-ban-d… The European Greens have released a landmark position paper that should guide their policies on copyright in the digital era. The overall theme is a reduction of the copyright monopoly to the benefit of consumers. Among other things the Greens want to legalize file-sharing for personal use, ban DRM entirely and restrict the copyright term to five years. The Greens / EFA <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Greens-European_Free_Alliance> is one of the parliamentary groups in the European Parliament. The group currently hold 57 seats, including one Pirate Party seat held by Christian Engstrom. This week the Greens released a position paper <http://www.scribd.com/doc/67862207/Common-Position-on-Copyright-28sept11-EN> with their view on copyright in the digital era, which mimics the Pirate Party agenda. The paper goes directly against the current trend of increasing control over copyright, and calls for a society that secures the interests of the public instead of a few multi-million dollar companies. One of the key proposals is to legalize file-sharing for personal use. "Non commercial sharing between individuals should be allowed, for instance by widening the scope of the existing private copying exception," the Greens write. In addition, restrictive technologies such as DRM should be banned entirely, or at least decriminalized. "It must always be legal to circumvent DRM restrictions, and we should consider introducing a ban in the consumer rights legislation on DRM technologies that restrict legal uses of a work," the paper reads. "There is no point in having our parliaments introduce a balanced and reasonable copyright legislation, if at the same time we allow the big multinational corporations to write their own laws, and enforce them through technical means," it adds. The Greens also want to reduce the copyright term from 70 to 5 years, with an option for copyright holders to extend it to a maximum of 20 years. The Greens call the current situation "absurd" and argue that society will greatly benefit from a more reasonable copyright term. "Today's protection times --- life plus 70 years --- are absurd. No investor would even look at a business case where the time to pay-back was that long," they write. Overall the paper suggests a reduction in the current stranglehold on creativity and a boost for the Internet to allow it to show its full potential. According to the Greens this also means that Net Neutrality should be guaranteed, and that remixes and mashups of copyrighted works for commercial use should be allowed. Talking to TorrentFreak, Pirate Party MEP Christian Engstrom says that the Greens proposal perfectly resembles what the Pirate Party has been fighting for in recent years. "I think it's great," Engstrom says. "The paper starts off by first going through what the situation is and what the goals are from a Green perspective, and then ends up in the same proposal for copyright reform that the Pirate Party advocates. This makes perfect sense." "The idea of copyright reform has existed among Greens before the Pirate Party got involved, but we have helped giving the Greens a push to really put it on the agenda," he adds. For Engstrom and all the other Pirate Party employees in Brussels this confirms that they can make a difference, and that the support the Pirate Party got in the 2009 elections was justified. "I was sent to Brussels by 225,000 Swedish voters who voted for the Pirate Party, with the task to spread the Pirate ideas in the parliament, so that we can one day get the majority for the ideas that we need. This is of course a very big job, but this is a first milestone. It shows that the Pirates can deliver when they get the chance," Engstrom concludes. The enthusiasm of the copyright reform paper isn't limited to Brussels either. Many pirate party members and volunteers will see it as a sign that they can make a difference. "We know that our ideas are sound for the future, says Rick Falkvinge, founder of the first Pirate Party. "It is great to see that they are getting larger and larger support. To see one of the seven party groups in the European Parliament adopt our entire perspective as its own is a gigantic leap forward for the civil liberties of the next generation. "Just like the Green perspective took some time to be fully understood 40 years ago, so will ours. But understanding and endorsement of the pirate perspective keeps growing, and I expect it continue doing so until it is as common sense as acting sustainably," Falkvinge adds. The position paper of the Greens can be called revolutionary. However, the group is only a minority in the European Parliament, so there's a long way to go before it will become law. It's nonetheless a clear sign that copyright reform is gaining broader acceptance.

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by Stefano Quintarelli Oct. 14, 2011

Oct. 14, 2011

copiateci, per piacere: http://is.gd/erAWtj ovviamente, da decenni compriamo contenuti da fonti con cui abbiamo degli obblighi contrattuali che ci impediscono di redistribuirli. il limite a cio’ e’ il diritto di citazione che ha l’utente. dal combinato di queste due situazioni, possiamo facilitare la citazione solo di porzioni di contenuto e non del tutto. in sintesi, l’unica cosa che diciamo e’ che se un utente usa quel tool, quello che copia, per noi ricade nel diritto di citazione. (che prevede un uso non commerciale/lucro per cui abbiamo pensato di attribuire una licenza CC ) vi assicuro che per molti versi (Anna può immaginare bene e confermare...) e' una operazione che viene percepita come abbastanza rivoluzionaria... ciao, s. -- blog.quintarelli.it www.ilsole24ore.com

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Lewis Hyde: "How to Reform Copyright" (Chronicle of Higher Education)
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 14, 2011

Oct. 14, 2011

Lewis Hyde, il famoso autore di "Gift" e, piu' recentemente, di "Common as Air", propugna la reintroduzione delle formalità (sì, in tal caso, per fare le cose per bene, bisognerebbe cambiare nientemeno la Convenzione di Berna: e allora? :-) ). juan carlos October 9, 2011 How to Reform Copyright By Lewis Hyde James Madison presumably wrote the clause in the Constitution that allows Congress to give copyrights to authors, but even Madison had his reservation. The founding fathers considered copyright a "monopoly privilege" and, as Madison later wrote, "Monopolies ... ought to be granted with caution ... ." Two concerns lay behind that wariness. For the founders, both democratic self-governance and the conversation of creative communities demanded very low barriers to the circulation of knowledge and, therefore, strict restraint of monopoly privileges. Thus does the Constitution stipulate that copyrights be granted only for "limited times." "A temporary monopoly ... ought to be temporary," Madison declared. "Perpetual monopolies of every sort are forbidden ... by the genius of free Governments." All that has changed, of course, the term of copyright now being statistically almost indistinguishable from a perpetual grant. How might that be corrected? How might we return to something more in line with the founders' caution and closer to their vision of both democracy and creativity? Consider one proposal. [...] Continua qui: http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Reform-Copyright/129280/

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EDPS on Net Neutrality
by Paolo Brini Oct. 13, 2011

Oct. 13, 2011

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Gli editori per la libera circolazione della conoscenza dicono no alla legge bavaglio
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Oct. 13, 2011

Oct. 13, 2011

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Fwd: [ NNSquad ] A Few Brief Thoughts on the Death of Computer Science Titan Dennis Ritchie
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 13, 2011

Oct. 13, 2011

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ NNSquad ] A Few Brief Thoughts on the Death of Computer Science Titan Dennis Ritchie Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:56:53 -0700 From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren(a)vortex.com> To: nnsquad(a)nnsquad.org A Few Brief Thoughts on the Death of Computer Science Titan Dennis Ritchie http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000903.html Dennis Ritchie has died after a long illness ( http://j.mp/pQfU8J [CNET]). He was only the relatively young age of 70. Unlike Steve Jobs, Dennis was not a household name. He should have been, but he was a quiet and private person, and would have hated the publicity. I've known Dennis since the early days of the UNIX operating system at Bell Labs in the 70s, where he created the ubiquitous "C" programming language, and co-created UNIX with Ken Thompson. It is impossible to overstate the importance of this work to today's world. UNIX was almost entirely written in "C" -- and UNIX's direct descendants like Linux power Google, the Web at large (the vast majority of Web servers run Linux), and likely multiple devices in your home and office right now. The current Mac OS. Android. TiVo. The impact of C and Linux are everywhere. Your ability to read these words rests directly to a major degree on Dennis' work. But beyond the nitty-gritty of software design, the creation of UNIX was also the inception of what would ultimately become the open source community, and the vast collaborations of the ARPANET/Internet that have led to the global phenomenon we see today. Such goals were explicit in the design of UNIX. In this 1980s Bell Labs video from my collection, featuring Ken and Dennis explaining the origins of UNIX, Dennis explains how they wanted the system to specifically foster community and fellowship. ( http://j.mp/g5aahn [YouTube] ) I said this would be brief. I'll close with one personal story. Back in the early UNIX days, on one of my visits to Bell Labs' main facilities in Murray Hill, New Jersey, I was sitting at a terminal in the 1127 Labs where UNIX was developed, logged in over the nascent Net back to UCLA. As usual, I was trying to get a bit of coding done even on this trip. My rapid typing suddenly stopped as I puzzled over a particularly complex C language declaration in the program, that definitely was incorrect as it stood. Sitting at the terminal next to me was Dennis. So I asked his advice on the declaration -- after all, who better to know than the creator of the language? He thought about it for no more than a few seconds, then immediately (and graciously) provided an elegant solution that, frankly, would not have occurred to me. I got on with my programming. In later years, I realized that this exchange was probably the closest I'd ever come in my life to asking a question directly to, and receiving a detailed answer from, a true god. Rest in peace, Dennis. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren(a)vortex.com) http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com

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[NEXA]Ufficio legale Apple cause senza tregua - Repubblica.it
by vale.it.newsletters＠gmail.com Oct. 13, 2011

Oct. 13, 2011

http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2011/08/11/news/apple_tra_cause_e_citaz… > Un altro attacco di questi giorni viene dalla Operating System Solutions, che ha citato Apple perché "Mac OsX si avvia troppo velocemente". Sembra incredibile ma è questo il motivo, la OSS ritiene di avere il brevetto sui sistemi operativi che si avviano velocemente. Naturalmente sarà la corte a decidere, ma sembra un attacco diretto all'ultimo prodotto della Mela, il MacBook Air, che fa il "boot" in pochi secondi grazie ad una memoria a stato solido.

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[NEXA]Diritto di rettifica: altro che accordo salva blog !
by vale.it.newsletters＠gmail.com Oct. 13, 2011

Oct. 13, 2011

http://www.civile.it/internet/visual.php?num=79156 È corretto quanto scritto? A presto, V

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Fwd: [IP] Dennis Ritchie has dies
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 13, 2011

Oct. 13, 2011

Per i geek in lista: è morto Dennis Ritchie, il creatore del C, il linguaggio di programmazione che ha formato generazioni di programmatori: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie RIP juan carlos -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [IP] Dennis Ritchie has dies Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:56:11 -0400 From: DAVID FARBER <dave(a)farber.net> Reply-To: dave(a)farber.net To: ip <ip(a)listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: > *From:* Tim Finin <finin(a)cs.umbc.edu <mailto:finin@cs.umbc.edu>> > *Date:* October 12, 2011 9:32:06 PM EDT > *To:* David Farber <dave(a)farber.net <mailto:dave@farber.net>> > *Subject:* *Dennis Ritchie has dies* > > Sad news. Rob Pike reports on Google Plus that Dennis Ritchie died at > his home this weekend after a long illness. Ritchie created the C > programming language and was a key contributor to Unix. In 1983 he > received the Turing Award with his long time colleague Ken Thompson > for the development of operating systems theory and the implementation > of the UNIX. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in > 1988. Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/14798382-eb93fc78> | Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=14798382&id_secret=14798382-58a8a…> Your Subscription | Unsubscribe Now <https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?member_id=14798382&id_secret=14798382-…> [Powered by Listbox] <http://www.listbox.com>

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