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Il web si espande: URL in arabo
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 7, 2010

May 7, 2010

Provate a copiare e incollare quanto segue ?????-?????????.??? nello spazio indirizzi del vostro browser :-) juan carlos

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Fw: New Hampshire Supreme Court Upholds Free Speech Rights for Online News Sites
by Valerio Lubello May 7, 2010

May 7, 2010

FYI, Valerio From: Seth Young Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 8:58 PM To: press-report-list(a)eon.law.harvard.edu Subject: New Hampshire Supreme Court Upholds Free Speech Rights for Online News Sites NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS FREE SPEECH RIGHTS FOR ONLINE NEWS SITES Ruling Mirrors Arguments Made in Brief by the Citizen Media Law Project, Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic, and Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press May 6, 2010 - The New Hampshire Supreme Court today issued an important decision upholding the First Amendment rights of online publishers. Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic submitted an amicus curiae brief last June on behalf of the Citizen Media Law Project and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in the case, The Mortgage Specialists, Inc. v. Implode-Explode Heavy Industries, Inc. The reasoning of today's ruling mirrored arguments in the amicus brief, as the Court concluded that a lower court's injunction preventing a website from posting a leaked document was an unlawful prior restraint on speech. In 2008, the mortgage industry website, The Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter, published an article detailing administrative actions taken by the New Hampshire Banking Department against mortgage lender The Mortgage Specialists, Inc. The article included a link to a financial document that The Mortgage Specialists allegedly submitted to the state banking authorities, which the Implode-O-Meter website had obtained from an anonymous source. Mortgage Specialists sued the website, demanding that the document be removed from the internet and that the anonymous source be identified. A Rockingham County Superior Court judge granted these requests. The Supreme Court reversed the injunction preventing publication of the leaked document. The Court drew heavily from a long line of cases hostile to prior restraints, and noted that "[t]he danger of a prior restraint is that it 'has an immediate and irreversible sanction' which 'freezes' speech 'at least for the time'" and that "[w]hen . . . the prior restraint impinges upon the right of the press to communicate news and involves expression in the form of pure speech . . . the presumption of unconstitutionality is virtually insurmountable." The Court rejected the argument that publishing the loan document violated laws governing confidentiality and privacy. In another important part of its decision, the Supreme Court ruled that New Hampshire's qualified reporter's privilege applied to the Implode-O-Meter website and could protect the identity of the source who provided the loan document. The court flatly rejected the lender's argument that the shield law did not apply to the website "because Implode is neither an established media entity nor engaged in investigative reporting." Instead, the Court ruled that "Implode is a reporter for purposes of the newsgathering privilege," noting that "Implode's website serves an informative function and contributes to the flow of information to the public." "This case stands as a vindication of important First Amendment principles and the rights of online publishers," said Sam Bayard, Assistant Director of the Citizen Media Law Project. "It demonstrates that the First Amendment extends no less protection to a small website keeping tabs on the mortgage industry than it does to the New York Times publishing the Pentagon Papers. It also confirms the common sense insight that legal protection should be linked to the function of journalism, not to any particular medium." In yet another portion of its ruling, the NH Supreme Court ordered the lower court to revisit part of its previous order that required the Implode-O-Meter website to reveal the identity of anonymous posters to the site. The Supreme Court adopted a standard that provides robust protections for anonymous and pseudonymous speech online and requires a high showing before such speakers can be identified. This ruling puts New Hampshire in agreement with a long line of cases from other states providing these important protections. About the Citizen Media Law Project The Citizen Media Law Project, which is jointly affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Center for Citizen Media, provides legal assistance, training, research, and other resources for individuals and organizations involved in online and citizen media. The CMLP endeavors to serve as a catalyst for creative thinking about the intersection of law and journalism on the Internet. Through the project's website, www.citmedialaw.org, the active engagement of lawyers and scholars, and occasional sponsored conferences, project staff are working to build a community of lawyers, academics, and others who are interested in facilitating citizen participation in online media and protecting the legal rights of those engaged in speech on the Internet. For more information, visit http://www.citmedialaw.org. About the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic The Cyberlaw Clinic, based at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, engages Harvard Law School students in a wide range of real-world litigation, licensing, client counseling, advocacy, and legislative projects and cases, covering a broad spectrum of Internet, new technology, and intellectual property legal issues. The Clinic was the first of its kind, and it continues its tradition of innovation in its areas of practice. Among many other areas, the scope of the Clinic's work includes litigation, amicus filings, and other advocacy to protect online speech and anonymity; legal resources and advice for citizen journalists and alternative media organizations; counseling and legal guidance regarding open access, digital copyright, and fair use licensing and contract advice, especially regarding Creative Commons and other "open" licenses; and guidance and amicus advocacy for effective but balanced protection of children in the areas of social networking, child pornography, and online exploitation. More information can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/clinical. Contact: Seth Young Berkman Center for Internet & Society Harvard University +1.617.384.9135 syoung(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu ### -- The Berkman Center for Internet & Society -- http://cyber.law.harvard.edu -- exploring cyberspace, sharing in its study, and helping pioneer its development -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **** To change your Berkman Center subscriptions, visit the following url: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/signup

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9 maggio: seminario su CC a Torino
by Simone Aliprandi May 7, 2010

May 7, 2010

Domani pomeriggio (sabato 9 maggio dalle 15,30 alle 17,30) all'interno dello Student Performing Festival di Torino si terrà un incontro di approfondimento sui nuovi modelli di gestione del diritto d'autore. Ingresso libero previa registrazione. Informazioni: http://www.comune.torino.it/infogio/studentperforming/schedelaboratori.htm#… Iscrizioni all'incontro: http://www.tedaca.it/torinoperformingfestival/iscrizione.html Un caro saluto. -- Simone Aliprandi - http://www.aliprandi.org

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20° Mercoledì di NEXA: Stefano Trumpy e la Governance dell'ecosistema Internet (12 maggio, ore 18)
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 7, 2010

May 7, 2010

*20° Mercoledì di NEXA* ** *Stefano Trumpy (IIT-CNR): /"La governance dell'ecosistema Internet" /* *Mercoledì 12 maggio 2010, ore 18-20* Corso Trento 21, Torino (primo piano) * *Ingresso libero **Streaming video <http://nexa.polito.it/events> dell'evento.** ** Internet era stata concepita come tecnologia per connettere tra loro reti diverse attraverso protocolli che le facessero interagire in modo da comportarsi di fatto come rete unica; da qui la definizione di Internet come "rete di reti" o "la madre di tutte le reti". Oggi Internet viene vista principalmente come un insieme di servizi di uso universale e di contenuti informativi, tanto che la parte di infrastruttura di telecomunicazioni ha perso importanza relativa; non a caso nei media spesso si usa il termine WEB al posto del termine rete per definire il complesso mondo di Internet. La definizione di Internet come ecosistema viene da Vint Cerf, uno dei progettisti del protocollo TCP-IP che e' elemento di base del "cuore" della rete. L'ecosistema Internet ha un impatto costantemente crescente sulla nostra società e, non a caso, il periodo storico in cui viviamo viene chiamato "Società dell'Informazione", da una delle caratteristiche più rilevanti della nostra presente realtà post-industriale. Oggi la gestione e l'analisi degli sviluppi dell'ecosistema Internet vede coinvolti economisti, sociologi, giuristi, governi di stati e locali, oltre ai tecnologi. Una decina di anni fa si comincia ad usare il termine "governance"; meglio non tradurre il termine in italiano poiché questo farebbe sembrare che la gestione di Internet sia faccenda dei governi. Questo può essere vero per alcuni governi che sono preoccupati della troppo libera circolazione delle idee. Alcune regolamentazioni debbono essere comunque messe in opera per garantire lo sviluppo ordinato della rete, possibilmente con la partecipazione dei principali attori interessati, oltre che dei governi. La governance, nella accezione definite in ambito degli Internet Governance Forum organizzati dalle Nazioni Unite, comprende gli aspetti relativi all'accesso degli utenti alla rete, alla libertà di espressione, al digital divide, ai temi della sicurezza, della privacy, della protezione della proprietà intellettuale e della gestione delle risorse critiche (in particolare del sistema di indirizzi della rete). Di queste cose si discuterà anche nell'ambito dello IGF Italia che questo anno si terrà a Roma il 6 e 7 settembre prossimi. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Letture consigliate: * Stefano Trumpy, Internet in 13 pillole <http://cctld.it/next/html/trumpy_13.html> * L. Abba, Carlo Cosmatos, Global Internet Governance: un nuovo campo di ricerca interdisciplinare riguardo all'Internet del Futuro <http://www.iit.cnr.it/node/2072>, Rivista Informatica e diritto, 2009 * Internet Governance Forum Italia, Pensa globalmente, agisci localmente, Quaderni dell'Internet Italiano <http://www.quadernionline.it/igf_2008/indice.html> 2008 * L. Abba, Stefano Trumpy, Analisi delle posizioni espresse durante l'IGF 2009, in merito all'evoluzione della "enhanced cooperation" e alla proposta di estendere il mandato del Forum <http://www.iit.cnr.it/node/2671>- Technical Report IIT TR - 01/2010 * A. Pizzaleo, Quarto Interner Governance Forum <http://www.iit.cnr.it/node/2673> - Sharm el Sheik - Egitto Novembre 2009 - Technical Report IIT TR - 02/2010 * Global Internet Governance Academic Network <http://giganet.igloogroups.org/>(GigaNet) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Anna Piccitto Ufficio Stampa NEXA Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica Tel. +39 011 564 7245

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Dopo il talk di Eben Moglen, in fatti: progetto Diaspora
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 6, 2010

May 6, 2010

Dopo l'eccezionale discorso di Eben Moglen sul "cloud computing" [1], arrivano i fatti, ovvero il progetto Diaspora - ovvero (tra le altre cose) l'anti-Facebook, http://www.joindiaspora.com/. I quattro volenterosi ragazzi cercano sostegno finanziario, anche modesto (contributo minimo di 5 dollari). juan carlos [1] http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2010/feb/01/freedom-cloud-software-free… *Diaspora <http://www.joindiaspora.com> - the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source> social network* http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-contr… We are four talented young programmers from NYU's Courant Institute <http://cims.nyu.edu> trying to raise money so we can spend the summer building Diaspora; an open source personal web server that will put individuals in control of their data. *What is it?* Enter your Diaspora "seed," a personal web server that stores all of your information and shares it with your friends. Diaspora knows how to securely share (using GPG <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard>) your pictures, videos, and more. When you have a Diaspora seed of your own, you own your social graph, you have access to your information however you want, whenever you want, and you have full control of your online identity. Once we have built a solid foundation, we will make Diaspora easy to extend to facilitate any type of communication, and the possibilities will be endless. For a little more detailed explanation, checkout this blog post <http://www.joindiaspora.com/2010/04/21/a-little-more-about-the-project.html>. *What is the project about?* We believe that privacy and connectedness do not have to be mutually exclusive. With Diaspora, we are reclaiming our data, securing our social connections, and making it easy to share on your own terms. We think we can replace today's centralized social web with a more secure and convenient decentralized network. Diaspora will be easy to use, and it will be centered on you instead of a faceless hub. *Why are we building it?* This February, Eben Moglen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen>, Columbia law professor and author of the latest GPL, gave a talk on Internet privacy. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOEMv0S8AcA> As more and more of our lives and identities become digitized, Moglen explains, the convenience of putting all of our information in the hands of companies on "the cloud" is training us to casually sacrifice our privacy and fragment our online identities. But why is centralization so much more convenient, even in an age where relatively powerful computers are ubiquitous? Why is there no good alternative to centralized services that, as Moglen pointed out, comes with "spying for free?" Why do we keep our personal data in a thousand places? We have the technology, someone just needs to take the time to figure out how we can communicate smoothly and intuitively, without the hidden costs of "the cloud". As good programmers, when we noticed that the application we need doesn't exist, we set out to fill the hole in our digital lives. *Why do we need money?* We have a plan, a bunch of ideas <http://joindiaspora.com/project.html> and the programming chops to build Diaspora. What we need is the time it takes to iron out a powerful, secure, and elegant piece of software. Daniel, Ilya, Raphael, and Maxwell are all ready to trade our internships and summer jobs for three months totally focused on building Diaspora. We want to write code all the time, everyday. Once we have made our first solid iteration, we are going to release our code as free software <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software> so everyone can make Diaspora even better. $10,000 buys the software for everyone who wants to use it, forever. We think it can change the way people communicate and empower individuals to permanently take control of their online identities. After we open source our source code, we hope to also provide a paid turnkey hosted service in the vein of Wordpress.com <http://www.wordpress.com> to make it easy for people who want to use Diaspora, but don't want to deal with the fuss of setting it up.* We will make it easy to export your data and configuration, so if you decide you want to graduate and host your seed yourself, you are free to do so at anytime. Our goal is for everyone to have full control over their data and to empower people in to become responsible, secure, and social Internet dwellers. We believe offering this service will be helpful to non-technical users who are also worried about their data and privacy online. *Our Promise.* We promise to you that Diaspora will be aGPL <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License> software which will released at the end of the summer. *Want more info?* Check out our website for project updates, blog posts, pictures, and plans. More information is being added every day! www.joindiaspora.com <http://www.joindiaspora.com> Check out more videos here. <http://www.youtube.com/user/mbs348> Follow us at @joindiaspora Twitter <http://twitter.com/joindiaspora> or identi.ca <http://Identi.ca/joindiaspora> Want get Diaspora updates via email? Sign up here! <http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=0AoQmncVLKXRBdFo1N3o4R3lrWkszX0…> * This service will be available a few months after the end of the summer. Project location: New York, NY

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Seminario "Conseguenze Politiche dell'Open Source" - Dot 2.0
by alessandro cozzutto May 5, 2010

May 5, 2010

Dot 2.0, Dipartimento Virtuale di Studi Politici e Sociali, vi invita all'incontro, dal titolo "Conseguenze Politiche dell'Open Source", a cura della redazione di Dot 2.0, nell'ambito del ciclo di seminari organizzato dal Dipartimento di Studi Politici dell´Universita´ di Torino. L'incontro-dibattito si terrà Giovedì 6 Maggio presso l'aula seminari, al primo piano del dipartimento di Via Giolitti 33. La partecipazione è libera. Nel corso dell'incontro prenderanno la parola: Alessandro Cozzutto, membro di Dot 2.0, che parlerà in particolare dell'esperienza del Partito dei Pirati a livello europeo, Elena Giglia, Coordinatrice Ambito 6 «Scienze storiche e filosofiche, pedagogiche e psicologiche» del Sistema Bibliotecario d'Ateneo, che parlerà di open access, e Viviana Mandrile, Coordinatrice Ambito 7 «Scienze giuridiche, economiche e statistiche, politiche e sociologiche», che parlerà di AperTO, il portale d'ateneo per la messa on line di contenuti accademici ad accesso libero, e di alcune precise politiche dell'università di Torino su questo tema. Nel corso della presentazione verrano mostrati alcuni spezzoni delle interviste realizzate dalla redazione di Dot 2.0 con Christian Engstromm, deputato del Partito Pirata Svedese al Parlamento Europeo, e con alcuni rappresentanti del Partito Pirata Tedesco. Le interviste verranno prossimamente postate sul sito del Dipartimento Virtuale di Studi Politici e Sociali www.dotduepuntozero.org L'incontro sarà, come d'abitudine, filmato e podcastato, per essere poi messo a disposizione degli utenti del dipartimento virtuale: because social sciences matter.. -- Alessandro Cozzutto ale.cozzutto(a)gmail.com http://www.dotduepuntozero.org

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Re: [nexa] R: R: provazione di Morozov
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it May 5, 2010

May 5, 2010

Caro Marco-- non saprei dire quanto è autorevole Morozov a meno che non prendiamo a riferimento che ha scritto per i più importanti giornali del mondo e che forse questo non è il metro giusto per giudicarlo: http://www.evgenymorozov.com/about.html Diciamo solo che gli italiani vituperati che scrivono in una lingua sfigata, parlata e letta da troppo pochi hanno problematizzato il tema da 10 anni a questa parte. Come giornalista penso che è importante che le "provocazioni" alla Morozov vengano pubblicate e suscitino dibattito. Sono solo seccato che nell'era dell'informazione non ne abbiamo memoria e sembra che dobbiamo sempre ricominciare daccapo a discutere di tutto... Dopodiché, "I think that revlution won't be televised or myspaced, nor facebooked" (Arturo Di Corinto) http://bit.ly/b0g9zs

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Re: [nexa] R: R: provazione di Morozov
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it May 4, 2010

May 4, 2010

Mah.... Morozov fa l'errore esattamente opposto a quello degli entusiasti e degli ottimisti che decantano le virtù salvifiche e democratiche di Internet. Fermo il fatto che la "risposta" di Luca è molto azzeccata e praticamente perfetta per il livello di astrazione che offre, la riflessione che mi viene da fare è che in tanti, prima di Morozov, abbiamo ragionato, detto e scritto dei "pericoli" legati a un'interpretazione acritica degli usi sociali di Internet, ricordando che il senso di una tecnica è sempre dato dai suoi utilizzatori e che Internet forse non fa rima con libertà ma "è progettata" per poterlo fare. Da questo punto di vista segnalo che tra le analisi delle culture critiche di Internet i testi di Geert Loovink e Bifo sono ancora insuperati, ma il libro che vi consiglio di leggere è Cybersoviet di Carlo Formenti.In esso Formenti decostruisce i miti di Internet (non è vro che sia democratica, perchè non è vero che la rete non possa essere controllata, la sua trasparenza non è sempre buona e gli sciami che la popolano non sono sempre intelligenti). Dopo aver ingaggiato un pesante corpo a corpo con le teorie democratiche e postdemocratiche legate a Internet e lascia a noi le conclusioni sul che fare per trasformare Internet in uno strumento di libertà. La mia recensione del libro è qui: http://bit.ly/aEDs0L Il video della presentazione qui: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TSctmTu7Ig

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Network management di TI
by Stefano Quintarelli May 4, 2010

May 4, 2010

ciao, TI fa traffic management non meglio precisato sulla rete **fissa**. AIIP denuncia ad AGCOM (perche' non ha fatto un comunicato stampa ??) ed AGCOM chiede chiarimenti a Telecom Italia vicenda da seguire con estrema attenzione, imho.. aldila' delle solite questioni legate alla net neutrality, c'e' il fatto che TI fa network management su una infrastruttura che da' anche in wholesale, senza dirne nulla ai concorrenti! come fanno questi a informare correttamente la loro clientela ? BTW, dalla nota si evince che TI *NON* ha informato agcom della sperimentazione... ciao, s. -- blog.quintarelli.it www.eximia.it www.reeplay.it

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"German Supreme Court rules that Image Search does not infringe copyright"
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 3, 2010

May 3, 2010

http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2010/04/german-supreme-court-rules-t… Thursday, April 29, 2010 | 7:15 PM Labels: copyright <http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/search/label/copyright>, Germany <http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/search/label/Germany> Google's aim is to help users discover information as quickly and efficiently as possible. Sometimes the information they seek is in written or audio form, and sometimes the information they seek is visual - which may take the form of photographs, designs, artworks or other types of imagery - and we try to present the information in a way that best answers the user's query. With this in mind, we launched our Image Search service in 2003, which presents users with a selection of reduced-resolution thumbnail images relating to their search query. Users can then click through to the site that hosts the image to see it in full-size or to see the content around it. Millions of users find this service helpful - they can quickly find exactly what they want, and many site owners do too - it's another means through which Internet users can discover their sites. Website owners have complete control over what Google will crawl on their site: with a simple set of tools called robots.txt they can notably tell Google (and other search engines) not to crawl the images on their site. We are heartened by the German Supreme Court´s ruling today that Google Image Search does not infringe copyright. The case was brought to court by an artist who had uploaded photos of her work (large paintings) to her own website. She then claimed for copyright infringement against Google as the images were displayed in our image search results. Today´s ruling makes it clear not just for Google, its users in Germany and all owners of websites containing images, but also for all providers of image search services operating in the country: showing thumbnail images within search results is legitimate and millions of users in Germany benefit from being able to discover visual information at the click of a mouse. We still have to wait for the full reasoning behind the decision. What we know today: thousands of websites and companies in Germany will be able to benefit from Google Image Search in the future as well. News websites on the Internet, online providers of pictures and posters, artists, photographers, designers and many more who depend on the web for their livelihoods can go on using the service as a significant distribution platform. Posted by Dr. Arnd Haller, Managing Counsel, Google Germany GmbH

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