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European Data Protection Commissioners' Conference
by Paolo Brini April 8, 2011

April 8, 2011

(Il maiuscolo è mio) "[...] Having in mind the intention of the Commission to adopt in the course of 2011 a proposal for a new legal framework, the Conference: - Recalls the main challenges to be addressed in the new framework, which include - the consequences of globalisation and transborder flows of personal data; - the development of technology especially in the on-line world; - THE IMPORTANCE OF EFFECTIVE PROTECTION IN THE AREAS OF POLICE AND JUSTICE, ALSO IN LIGHT OF THE TREND TO RE-USE ON A SYSTEMATIC BASIS PERSONAL DATA OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT PURPOSES. <http://www.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/webdav/site/mySite/shared/Documents/Coope…> Ciao, Paolo

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NEM SUMMIT: Implementation of the Future Media Internet (Torino, 27-29 settembre 2011)
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 7, 2011

April 7, 2011

*NEM SUMMIT Implementation of the Future Media Internet* Torino, 27-29 settembre 2011 http://nem-summit.eu/call-for-papers-2/ NEM Initiative, the Networked and Electronic Media Technology Platform, is organising the fourth edition of its main annual conference NEM Summit 2011 in Torino (Italy) on 27-29 September 2011. Building on successful previous Summit editions, this NEM Summit will address various issues, such as research and business challenges, societal as well as user needs, implementation requirements, regulatory and standardisation environment, etc., related to the *Implementation of the Future Media Internet*. *NEM Summit 2011* will have four*Tracks* * Immersive and Pervasive Media * Cloud Media * Social Media * User Media *Important dates* * Submission opening: 30 March 2011 * Paper submission deadline: 16 May 2011 * Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2011 * Deadline for final papers: 1 September 2011 All stakeholders of networked and electronic media are invited to submit scientific, technical as well as business-oriented papers addressing topics defined within NEM Summit Tracks descriptions below. The submissions should present original work, innovative ideas, and results, including description of on-going activities and development of related products, services, and applications for increasing the competitiveness. *Immersive and Pervasive Media* The Future Internet not only will become pervasive in the sense that the number of connected devices will grow by orders of magnitude; it will also carry all sorts of media with an unprecedented quality. Forecasts predict that in less than 5 years 80--90% of the carried payload will be media. Immersiveness is dramatically increased by quality improvements: Panoramic or Giant Images and Movies, Higher Dynamic Range, Ultra High Resolution, Plano-stereoscopic, Multiview or Free Viewpoint Video and Wave Field Synthesis, Ambisonics and Multichannel Audio will boost the credibility and "reality" of media rendering. Pervasiveness, on the other hand, brings the content to the user and into his/her context. Dynamic and scalable content coding, media integration into browsers through HTML5, adaptivity considering location and device characteristics are important ingredients for making media even more pervasive. The *topics of interest* for the track contributions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Technologies for transport, coding and rendering (content-centric networks, spatial and ultra high resolution sound and video, scalable and hierarchical coding, rendering of audio and video over the device continuum) * Applications and services: Digital Cinema, (3D)IPTV, Giant Image and Movie Browsing, Scalable Rendering, Browser-based media applications, 3D integration into browsers *Cloud Media* Being the finest meshed communication network ever available, the Internet offers an unprecedented number of services that can be shared amongst participants. Cloud Computing has been a hot topic during the last years: Whether sharing of information via P2P networks like Torrent or shifting complete Office Suites into the Cloud, using storage and processing power in the cloud has become state-of-the-art and is now ready for Media! P2P networks as well as the Content Delivery Networks are now evolving towards media and new architectures for storing, replicating and transporting media into and out of the cloud are required. Additionally, the accumulated processing power in the cloud enables innovative media applications in the area of Smart TV (TV 3.0) through visual analytics, object recognition, retrieval in media data-bases and device specific transcoding. The *topics of interest* for the track contributions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Architectures and technologies for media content storage, replication and transport of media into and out of the cloud (P2P streaming, media content delivery networks) * Architectures and technologies for cloud computing for media (visual analytics in the cloud, content transcoding, media content retrieval) * Applications and services for cloud media *Social Media* Networked Electronic Media are more than a simple ingredient of future social media services: They are evolving to become the heart of Social Media: Videos are shared via YouTube and Facebook, video is increasingly added to voice communication in Skype, Windows Messenger or Office Communicator and networked games significantly increase their share in the electronic games domain. This track is dedicated to developments, innovative applications and business models in and around Social Media. Social media have significantly shaped the way citizens communicate. Even more than mobile phones, which made a well known communication service available ubiquitously, Social Media have influenced the daily life: People can spend more than 1 hour per day in Social Media and Facebook in December 2010 for the first time has been the most visited Website worldwide. User generated content has grown to an unforeseen magnitude and will continue to grow. The *topics of interest* for the track contributions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Data protection, security and trust (payment, viruses, profile-squatting, ID theft, infiltration) * Virtual and real personas (profiling, semantic descriptions, face recognition, footprint) * Applications and business models for Social Media (community generated content, service composition, umbrella services, etc.) ** *User Media* Much more than data, media have to be handled in a user-specific context. Whether for end customer consumption, for post production in a professional environment, whether for smart browsing of large data bases or for efficient sharing of personal media, coding, transport, representation, tagging and many other things related to media have to be adapted. */This track is dedicated to developments in and around User Media and it differs from the Social Media track by targeting explicitly single users or user categories./* In the upcoming era of user generated media content the user has a double role: On the one hand media is consumed by different categories of users (private and business customers, and professional users), on the other hand those categories of users down to the private individuum have become content producers. The *topics of interest* for the track contributions include, but are not limited to, the following: * Technologies for production, ingest, distribution, browsing and consumption of content for specific users and/or user groups. * Technologies for aggregation, presentation, creation, uploading, curating and distributing of user generated content * Applications and business services for user media (e.g. small and large digital cinemas on the professional user side and media sharing and community services like for private user) *Submission Guidelines* Papers for all NEM Summit 2011 Tracks must be submitted using the Online Submission Tool <http://conference.eurescom.eu> in PDF format using the NEM Summit paper template <http://www.nem-initiative.org/fileadmin/documents/Summit/NEMSummitTemplate.…> and not exceeding maximum length of six pages. Paper template and access to the submission tool, as well as further and updated information about NEM Summit 2011, will be available at the NEM Summit website (*www.nem-summit.eu <http://www.nem-summit.eu/>*) and NEM Initiative website (*www.nem-initiative.org <http://www.nem-initiative.org/>*). The submitted papers will be subject to peer review by members of the NEM Summit 2011 Programme Committee. The papers selected for the NEM Summit 2001 programme will be published in the Summit Proceedings where all further rights will remain with the authors. Extended versions of papers of special merit will be considered for possible fast track publication in the Computer Communications Journal of Elsevier. NEM Summit 2011 General Chair: Jean-Dominique Meunier (Technicolor) Programme Committee Co-chairs: Thorsten Herfet (Intel), Marco Ajmone Marsan (Politecnico of Torino) Summit Track Co-chairs * Immersive and Pervasive Media: Graham Thomas (BBC), José Manuel Menéndez (UPM) * Cloud Media: Stefan Arbanowski (Fraunhofer FOKUS), Martin May (Technicolor) * Social Media: Malte Behrmann (Game/EGDF), Nozha Boujemaa (Inria), Alex Jaimes (Yahoo Research) * User Media: George Wright (BBC), Luca Console (University of Torino) Programme Committee Coordinator: Halid Hrasnica (Eurescom) Organisation Committee Co-chairs: Jovanka Adzic (Telecom Italia), Florent Genoux (Sigma Orionis)

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Check out ICMPA's global study on how college students on 5 continents use media & access news
by Andrea Cairola April 7, 2011

April 7, 2011

Ricevo e inoltro: interessante studio e metodologia (l'astinenza!) per capire come i giovani usino i media e Internet. Ciao Andrea From: Susan Moeller [mailto:icmpa@jmail.umd.edu] Sent: 07 April 2011 13:14 To: icmpa(a)umd.edu Subject: Check out ICMPA's global study on how college students on 5 continents use media & access news (+ HuffPost column) Everyone, Please take a look at the latest ICMPA study: The world Unplugged. Conducted with the assistance of a dozen university partners of the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change the study asked 1000 students in 10 countries on five continents to gave up all media for 24 hours. After their daylong abstinence, the students recorded their experiences. In total, students wrote almost half a million words--about the same number of words as Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. The world Unplugged study concluded that most college students, whether in developed or developing countries, are strikingly similar in how they use media. Student after student spoke about their generation's utter dependency on media - especially the mobile phone. And they also talked about how they think about news. Said one student, from Slovakia: “We are used to having information about everything on the planet and this information we have to have in an unbelievable time. Our generation doesn’t need certified and acknowledged information. More important is quantity, not quality of news.” Please also look at a column I wrote on the study at the Huffington Post: Worldwide, Students Suffer From Internet 'Addiction' and another at the World Bank: What Kind of News Comes in 140 Characters or Facebook Status Updates? We are beginning to get some significant attention to the project – here's an early story from Yahoo Canada in which a couple of Maryland students are quoted. Thank you! Susan Susan Moeller, PhD Director, International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA) Professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism & School of Public Policy University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 USA w) 301-405-2419 m) 240-472-4166 Inviato da iPhone

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Repubblica: Se la musica è indipendente le netlabel vivono senza Siae Se la musica è indipendente le netlabel vivono senza Siae Se la musica è indipendente le netlabel vivono senza Siae Se la musica è indipendente le netlabel vivono senza Siae Se la musica è indipendente le netlabel vivono senza Siae Repubblica: Se la musica è indipendente, le netlabel vivono senza Siae
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it April 7, 2011

April 7, 2011

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Francia alla sbarra per la data retention
by avv. Monica Alessia Senor April 7, 2011

April 7, 2011

Ecco la risposta di venti grandi aziende ICT al Décret n° 2011-219 del 25 febbraio 2011 con cui la Francia ha imposto loro di registrare e conservare i dati personali degli utenti, password comprese: http://punto-informatico.it/3125692/PI/News/francia-alla-sbarra-data-retenti on.aspx Un caro saluto Monica

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Le immagini di opere d'arte italiane su Wikipedia adesso sono permesse?
by David Orban April 7, 2011

April 7, 2011

Nel gennaio 2007 la Soprintendenza ai beni culturali di Firenze diffidava Wikipedia dall'utilizzare immagini scattate all'interno dei musei, o raffigurante opere d'arte se non previa autorizzazione, anche se di pubblico dominio. A luglio 2007 Wikipedia inviava una lettera aperta di richiesta di chiarimenti, a cui sono seguite anche interrogazioni parlamentari. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Alcuni_Wikipediani/Lettera_aperta_sulle… Nel 2008 c'è stata un'iniziativa analoga relativa alla libertà di panorama, per le immagini riprese in spazi pubblici http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Alcuni_Wikipediani/Libert%C3%A0_di_pano… a cui il governo ha risposto richiamandosi alla nuova legge sul copyright del 25 gennaio 2008 che permette l'utilizzo di immagini "degradate". http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Alcuni_Wikipediani/Libert%C3%A0_di_pano… Da allora ci sono stati ulteriori chiarimenti? Ci sono stati precedenti legali che permettessero di capire che cosa significa in concreto un'immagine degradata? David Orban skype, twitter, linkedin, sl, etc: davidorban

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Moody: "Finally Calling Time on Piracy FUD"
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 7, 2011

April 7, 2011

Lettura vivamente consigliata. juan carlos Finally Calling Time on Piracy FUD Published 14:34, 21 March 11 /Glyn Moody/ One of the striking features of reports purporting to estimate the "damage" caused by piracy - both of software and content - is that without exception, as far as I can tell, their numbers and methodology simply do not withstand close scrutiny. The trouble is, when it's a question of lone voices like mine or even that of Techdirt <http://www.techdirt.com/>'s Mike Masnick, probably the most dogged debunker of piracy FUD, the content industries can ignore such posts, presumably in the belief that our quick analyses somehow don't count. But that's not possible when the same points comes from a respected organisation like the Social Science research Council <http://www.ssrc.org/>, "an independent, nonprofit international organization founded in 1923", especially when they appear in a meticulously-researched 400-page report: [...] Given the scope and rigour of this report, I think it will go down as a decisive moment when the discourse around piracy changed fundamentally, with the content industries being forced, finally, to explain and justify their methodologies, rather than simply stating their claimed results. And once this level of rigour is brought to bear on the subject, we will start to see very different figures being quoted, and maybe even different policies being put in in place as a result. That's bound to happen one day, when reality finally catches up with the content industries: it's just a question of time.... *Articolo intero qui:* http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2011/03/finally-calling-ti…

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NYRB (Darnton): "Six Reasons Google Books Failed"
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 7, 2011

April 7, 2011

Six Reasons Google Books Failed Robert Darnton <http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/robert-darnton/#tab-blog> Judge Denny Chin's opinion in rejecting the settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who sued it for infringement of their copyrights can be read as both as a map of wrong turns taken in the past and as an invitation to design a better route into the digital future. Extrapolating from the dense, 48-page text that accompanied the judge's March 23 decision, it is possible to locate six crucial points where things went awry: First, Google abandoned [...] Continua qui: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/mar/28/six-reasons-google-books-f…

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Joint Declaration on Intellectual Property Rights in the digital market (Cable Europe, ECTA, ETNO, EuroISPA and GSMA Europe)
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 6, 2011

April 6, 2011

*Joint Declaration on Intellectual Property Rights in the digital market from leading European ICT & Communications organisations * The role of the ICT industry in achieving the Digital Agenda targets Our pan-European organisations, Cable Europe, ECTA, ETNO, EuroISPA and GSMA Europe represent the European electronic communications industry that is comprised of both national and pan-European fixed and mobile telecoms operators, Internet Services Providers (ISPs) and cable companies. The European electronic communications industry plays a crucial part in connecting European citizens and businesses to information, news, entertainment, social media, cultural content and other public interest content. Notwithstanding the economic crisis, our industry continues to invest and enables European businesses to grow and compete at a national and international level. Over the last 15 years, our industry has delivered half of European productivity growth. We are committed to the continued delivery of sustainable economic and social benefits from a digital single market based on fast and ultra-fast networks and services, which buttress the overall aims of the Digital Agenda for Europe. If Europe is to achieve the EU2020 goals, it is essential that we all contribute to the completion of the digital single market. [...] URL: http://www.euroispa.org/files/1103_joint_declaration_ipr.pdf

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Vaticano: nuova legge sul diritto d'autore
by Maurizio Borghi (Staff) April 6, 2011

April 6, 2011

Ho letto che è appena uscita la nuova legge sul diritto d'autore nello Stato della Città del Vaticano: http://www.vaticanstate.va/NR/rdonlyres/FBFEA0E8-B43A-452A-AAA0-1AF49590F65… Tra le curiosità: norme piuttosto restrittive sull'uso dell'immagine del pontefice (art. 3); protezione di 70 anni per le riproduzioni puramente documentaristiche di beni culturali (art. 4); disciplina ferrea delle "work for hire" (spetta alla Santa Sede o allo Stato della CdV il diritto sulle opere "pubblicate sotto il loro nome o realizzate per loro conto" - art. 5); concezione ampia del diritto d'integrità (art. 6). Buona lettura! Maurizio Borghi

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