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WashPost (Goldsmith & Lessig): "Anti-counterfeiting agreement raises constitutional concerns"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 29, 2010

March 29, 2010

*Anti-counterfeiting agreement raises constitutional concerns* By Jack Goldsmith and Lawrence Lessig Friday, March 26, 2010; A23 The much-criticized cloak of secrecy that has surrounded the Obama administration's negotiation of the multilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was broken Wednesday. The leaked draft of ACTA <http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/03/draft_of_acta_trade_…> belies the U.S. trade representative's assertions that the agreement would not alter U.S. intellectual property law. And it raises the stakes on the constitutionally dubious method by which the administration proposes to make the agreement binding on the United States. The goal of the trade pact is to tighten enforcement of global intellectual property rules. The leaked draft, though incomplete in many respects, makes clear that negotiators are considering ideas and principles not reflected in U.S. law. ACTA could, for example, pressure Internet service providers -- such as Comcast and Verizon -- to kick users offline when they (or their children) have been accused of repeated copyright infringement because of content uploaded to sites such as YouTube. It also might oblige the United States to impose criminal liability on those who "incite" copyright violation. The draft more generally addresses "IP infringement" and thus could extend some of its rules to trademark and possibly patent law in ways that, after inevitable international compromises, will depart from U.S. law. It also contemplates creating an international "oversight council" to supervise (and possibly amend) aspects of the agreement. Continua qui: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR201003250…

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Re: [nexa] R: Re: Corte Costituzionale - open source - 122-10
by Francesco Paolo Micozzi March 28, 2010

March 28, 2010

Il 28/03/10 22.58, Marco Scialdone ha scritto: > Non sono d'accordo francesco. Come giustamente a mio avviso sottolinea la sentenza l'abusività è ben possibile in caso di violazione delle condizioni di licenza. > > M. > Scusa Marco ma probabilmente mi son spiegato male o non mi hai capito bene. E' ovvio che la violazione di una licenza implica l'"abusività". Ma prendi il 171 bis e guarda la condotta. Con le licenze libere le ipotesi di abusività si riducono sino al punto da annullarsi. Però... per comprendere meglio ho chiesto che qualcuno passasse il testo. Spero di riuscire a rispondere entro domani! saluti francesco -- Avv. Francesco Paolo Micozzi 09128 Cagliari - Via Domenico Cimarosa, 32 tel. +39 070 658 478 - fax +39 070 6851 640 email: francesco(a)micozzi.it PEC: micozzi(a)legalmail.it P-blog: www.micozzi.it

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Corte Costituzionale - open source - 122-10
by Valerio Lubello March 28, 2010

March 28, 2010

Cari tutti, vi allego questa "fresca" sentenza della Corte costituzionale che in materia di open source dichiara illegittime alcune disposizioni contenute nella L. Reg. Piemonte n. 9 del 2009 (Norme in materia di pluralismo informatico, sull'adozione e la diffusione del software libero e sulla portabilità dei documenti informatici nella pubblica amministrazione), che violano alcune disposizioni penali e la disciplina del diritto di autore. Credo sia comprensibile e molto interessante anche per i non giuristi, Valerio

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NYT: "Google Searches for a Foreign Policy"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 28, 2010

March 28, 2010

March 26, 2010 Google Searches for a Foreign Policy By MARK LANDLER <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/mark_landler/i…> WASHINGTON --- When Google <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/google_inc/index.html…> announced last week that it would shut its censored online search service in China <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/ch…>, it was doing more than standing up to a repressive government: it was showing that, with the United States still struggling to develop a foreign policy for the digital age, Internet companies need to articulate their own foreign policies. Google is hardly the first American company to stray into the State Department's bailiwick. Since the bad old days of the United Fruit Company in Latin America, powerful multinationals have conducted themselves like quasi-states, influencing the foreign lands in which they operate by deciding whether to accommodate or resist the unsavory practices of authorities there. For Internet companies, that choice has been sharpened by the fact that the World Wide Web is no longer just a force for freedom and diversity but also a tool for repression. Governments use it to spy on dissidents, human rights activists, and other troublesome elements. This change happened so fast that it left the foreign policy establishment gasping to catch up. It also exposed Washington's deep ambivalence about information technology: while it champions the free flow of ideas in closed societies like Iran, it fears being a target for cyber-attacks by hostile governments and doesn't want to export technology that could be diverted into military uses. Conflicted and confused, Foggy Bottom has little to offer Silicon Valley by way of support or even guidance. "What forces Google to have a foreign policy is that what they're exporting isn't a product or a service, it's a freedom," said Clay Shirky, who teaches at New York University <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/new_yor…> and writes about the Internet's social effects. "The question is, 'Are they going to be United Fruit?' " For Google, the sinister side of China's cyberpolicy eventually came to outweigh the economic attraction of China's market and the putative benefit of opening the Internet to a vast audience. [...] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/weekinreview/28landler.html

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Fwd: Protest in the Summit of the Ministers of culture of the EU
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 28, 2010

March 28, 2010

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Protest in the Summit of the Ministers of culture of the EU Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:10:33 +0200 From: eXgae <contacto(a)exgae.net> To: destinatarios-no-revelados:; Tomorrow we start! help and participate! http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am7VaPYoeFs *European civil society organizes an unprecedented protest action at the Summit of the EU Ministers of Culture.* Individuals, artists and NGO's, including, among others, FCForum, eXgae, La Quadrature du Net, P2P Foundation, European Digital Rights, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Scambioetico, Open Standards Alliance, Red SOStenible, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure Spain, Creative Commons Spain, Hackta have organized *a coordinated protest campaign* against the Informal Meeting of Ministers of Culture of the European Union. We demand *a model of culture that benefits everybody – citizens, creators and entrepreneurs – a model that stimulates creativity and not just collection, and, above all, a model that does not attack the Internet.* Follow it in streaming non-stop http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/ *Stop ACTA* / //Please spread this e-mail, it's another way of supporting this initiative. *Contact for informations: Simona Levi (+34)639025865* *contacto(a)exgae.net*

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Proxy fuorilegge?
by Paolo Brini March 27, 2010

March 27, 2010

Carissimi, abbiamo appena pubblicato un articolo che rappresenta una forte presa di posizione contro il sequestro di un proxy italiano, accusato di consentire l'accesso a The Pirate Bay, accompagnato da una perquisizione domiciliare e sequestro di TUTTO il materiale informatico ai danni dello studente 21enne che gestiva tale proxy. http://blog.tntvillage.scambioetico.org/?p=5799 In realtà non si tratta di una semplice e sterile presa di posizione, ma di un atto di vera e propria disobbedienza civile, che sentiamo doveroso per non piegarci alla logica della censura e dell'intimidazione. Vi invitiamo caldamente a prendere visione dell'articolo ma soprattutto a diventare parte attiva di un processo con il quale è indispensabile a nostro avviso combattere l'attuale clima censorio che pare si stia trasformando in un'operazione finalizzata a diffondere un senso di incertezza se non di vera e propria paura. Come scrive Luigi Di Liberto nell'articolo: "Cosa possiamo fare? Quello che si deve fare lo abbiamo, come Stefano Severi fece a suo tempo, qui alcuni giorni fa già fatto, mettendo un link che passando attraverso un proxy porta direttamente alla Baia dei Pirati, rinnovandolo platealmente in questo articolo. Auspichiamo che la cosa venga ripresa da tutti coloro che hanno un sito e si sentono indignati da questo sequestro e perquisizione, l’indignazione senza azione diventa la carta igienica delle buone coscienze in un contenitore vuoto a perdere." Questo sarebbe il modo per dimostrare concretamente solidarietà a questo ragazzo che probabilmente in queste ore si sente solo e con grandi preoccupazioni. Ci auguriamo quindi che ognuno di voi realizzi un piccolo ma significativo, concreto atto: inserire un link diretto ad un proxy nella propria home page e/o creare un vero e proprio proxy per bypassare la censura: riteniamo doveroso non far passare il grave fatto sotto silenzio. Paolo Brini (portavoce movimento ScambioEtico)

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Wash Post: "Policy makers, businesses debate role of Washington in cloud computing"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 27, 2010

March 27, 2010

Policy makers, businesses debate role of Washington in cloud computing Behind *Facebook*, *Gmail* and the *Bing* search engine is a multibillion-dollar shift in technology that users don't see and Washington doesn't quite know how to handle. That trend is called cloud computing: the hosting of data on remote servers that can be tapped from any computer connected to the Web. And the policy implications of cloud computing was the subject of debate last night at a roundtable dinner discussion at the Aspen Institute, hosted by *Microsoft*. Microsoft has emerged as a proponent of some rules of the road for the largely Wild West that cloud computing companies such as Google, Yahoo and Amazon operate. Yes, that's right -- the company wants more rules. Microsoft has called on Congress to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act to clearly apply to protections on the Web. And it wants stronger rules against cyber attacks by reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Continua qui: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/03/what.html

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World Economic Forum: The Global Information Technology Report 2009-2010
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 27, 2010

March 27, 2010

Networked Readiness Index dell'Italia: 48esima (su 133). Un anno fa: 45esima. Due anni fa: 42esima. See the trend? http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%20Information%20Technology… juan carlos

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Fw: [Creis_Terminal] L'Observatoire du Vote publie son rapportd'observation 2009
by Mariella Berra March 27, 2010

March 27, 2010

Quelques informations de Bruxelles ----- Original Message ----- From: chantal richard To: creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 3:30 PM Subject: [Creis_Terminal] L'Observatoire du Vote publie son rapportd'observation 2009 A LIRE ABSOLUMENT Bonjour, Veuillez trouver ci-joint le communiqué de presse de l'Observatoire du Vote du 4 mars qui a publié son rapport d'observation 2009 "Incidence du vote électronique lors des élections européennes de 2009 sur la justesse des résultats, la participation et l'accroissement du vote blanc". Chantal Richard Informations complémentaires OBSERVATOIRE DU VOTE Chantal Enguehard Directrice Scientifique T. +33 6 25 17 59 19 Mèle : chantal.enguehard(a)observatoire-du-vote.eu Jean-Didier Graton Président T. + 33 1 73 99 5858 Mèle : jean-didier.graton(a)observatoire-du-vote.eu L'Observatoire du Vote : L'Observatoire du Vote, institut de recherche créé en 2006 à Bruxelles, étudie les spécificités, les contraintes et les conséquences des procédures et techniques de dématérialisation des opérations électorales et des systèmes de vote. Outre l'exécution de programmes de recherches pluriannuels, l'Observatoire fournit assistance, expertise et formation aux différents acteurs concernés par l'organisation et le contrôle des consultations et élections. Mme Chantal Enguehard, chercheuse française reconnue en Europe pour la qualité et l'indépendance de ses travaux sur le vote électronique, assure la direction scientifique de l'Observatoire depuis sa création en 2006 par M. Jean-Didier Graton, expert en droit et technologies de l'information. Adresse de correspondance en France : Certencia - O.d.V. 176 Avenue Charles de Gaulle F 92200 Neuilly sur seine Cordialement Chantal Richard Présidente de CREIS-Terminal (Centre de coordination pour la Recherche et l'Enseignement en Informatique et Société et Revue Terminal) sites web : http://www.lecreis.org/ http://www.revue-terminal.org contact(a)lecreis.org P Pensez environnement : n'imprimez que si nécessaire -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Creis_terminal mailing list Creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org https://listes.globenet.org/listinfo/creis_terminal

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IHT: "A crusade to save digital material"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 27, 2010

March 27, 2010

The IHT A crusade to save digital material March 18, 2010 | By PATRICIA COHEN Among the archival material from Salman Rushdie on display at Emory University, in Atlanta, are inked book covers, handwritten journals and four Apple computers (one ruined by a spilled Coke). The 18 gigabytes of data they contain seemed to promise future biographers and literary scholars a digital wonderland: comprehensive, organized and searchable files, quickly accessible with a few clicks. But like most Rushdian paradises, this digital idyll has its set of problems. As research libraries and archives are discovering, ''born-digital'' materials - those initially created in electronic form - are much more complicated and costly to preserve than anticipated. Electronically produced drafts, correspondence and editorial comments, sweated over by contemporary poets, novelists and nonfiction authors, are ultimately just a series of digits - 0's and 1's - written on floppy disks, CDs and hard drives, all of which degrade much faster than old-fashioned acid-free paper. Even if those storage media do survive, the relentless march of technology can mean that the older equipment and software that can make sense of all those 0's and 1's simply don't exist anymore. Imagine having a record but no record player. All of which means that archivists are finding themselves trying to fend off digital extinction at the same time that they are puzzling through questions about what to save, how to save it and how to make that material accessible. Continua qui: http://tinyurl.com/y9hxmuc

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