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Re: [nexa] Progetto di Legge 2525, Camera Dei Deputati - Diritto d'Autore
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Sept. 27, 2009

Sept. 27, 2009

.... Beh, in ogni caso, complimenti e buon lavoro Art

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Progetto di Legge 2525, Camera Dei Deputati - Diritto d'Autore
by marco scialdone Sept. 27, 2009

Sept. 27, 2009

Ciao a tutt*, http://www.camera.it/_dati/leg16/lavori/schedela/trovaschedacamera_wai.asp?… Qui trovate un testo di riforma di alcune disposizioni della L.d.A. cui ho messo mano negli ultimi mesi insieme all'On. Cassinelli. Il testo è stato assegnato il 24 settembre u.s. alla Commissione cultura della Camera. In parte riprende il lavoro fatto ai tempi della Commissione Gambino, in parte lo amplia e cerca (almeno questo è l'intento che abbiamo cercato di esplicitare nella relazione introduttiva) di far comprendere come alcune modifiche siano funzionali ad un miglioramento dell'impianto complessivo della legge. Non so quanta strada farà, probabilmente non ne farà :-) M. -- Avv. Marco Scialdone Blog: http://scialdone.blogspot.com Site: www.computerlaw.it BlackBerry PIN:20D30DDB Skype: marco_scialdone MSN: marcoscialdone76(a)hotmail.com My profile: www.linkedin.com/in/marcoscialdone CC Network: https://creativecommons.net/marcoscialdone/

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Re: [nexa] Liberta' di espressione su Internet: la proposta di legge Pecorella
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Sept. 27, 2009

Sept. 27, 2009

La proposta Pecorella-Costa è inquietante e ci convince una volta di più di quanto i "governi democratici" siano "nemici" di Internet e della libertà che essa promuove e rappresenta. Anche per questo abbiamo creato una proposta da condividere con tutto il mondo della rete. Diteci anche voi cosa ne pensate e come si possa migliorare. http://frontieredigitali.net/index.php/Protocollo_d%E2%80%99azione_di_Front… cheers

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NYRB: Massing, "A New Horizon for the News"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Sept. 24, 2009

Sept. 24, 2009

Volume 56, Number 14 · September 24, 2009 A New Horizon for the News By Michael Massing The American news business today finds itself trapped in a grim paradox. Financially, its prospects have never seemed bleaker. By some measures, the first quarter of 2009 was the worst ever for newspapers, with sales plunging $2.6 billion. Last year, circulation dropped on average by 4.6 percent on weekdays and 4.8 percent on Sundays. Earlier this year, Detroit's two daily papers reduced home delivery to three days a week, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ended its print edition, and the Rocky Mountain News shut down altogether. This summer, The Boston Globe, which is losing more than $50 million a year, survived only by giving in to the draconian cutbacks demanded by its owner, the New York Times Company, while the Times itself, weighed down by the Globe, had to take out a $250 million loan from Carlos Slim Helú, Mexico's richest man, at a junk-bond-level interest rate of 14 percent a year. Yet amid all this gloom, statistics from the Internet suggest that interest in news has rarely been greater. According to one survey, Internet users in 2008 spent fifty-three minutes a week reading newspapers online, up from forty-one minutes in 2007. And the traffic at the top fifty news Web sites increased by 27 percent. While this growth cut across all age groups, the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism found, "it was fueled in particular by young people." The MTV generation, known for its indifference to news, has given way to the Obama generation, which craves it, and for an industry long reconciled to the idea of its customers dying off, the reengagement of America's young offers a rare ray of hope. Continua qui: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23050

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[TELECOMS PACKAGE] La battaglia finale per Internet
by Paolo Brini Sept. 23, 2009

Sept. 23, 2009

Buonasera a tutti! La traduzione di "Operation Revelation" in simultanea in molti paesi europei (con leggere modifiche). Visto che una decisione cruciale (quali parti del pacchetto Telecom portare in conciliazione) verrà presa lunedì sera, sarebbe fantastico propagare l'informazione in tempi brevi. http://blog.tntvillage.scambioetico.org/?p=3633 Ciao! Paolo

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Pam Samuelson: "DOJ Says No to Google Book Settlement"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Sept. 22, 2009

Sept. 22, 2009

Pamela Samuelson Professor, UC Berkeley Posted: September 20, 2009 06:18 PM The U.S. Department of Justice filed a "Statement of Interest" on September 18 recommending that Judge Chin disapprove the Proposed Settlement Agreement in the Authors Guild v. Google case. Although DOJ recognized that the public would benefit from greater access to books if the settlement was approved, it has concluded that the agreement in its current form does not satisfy legal requirements. The DOJ recommended that the litigants modify the agreement in some important respects before Judge Chin considers approving a settlement of the case. This is the most significant development since the settlement itself was announced. [...] Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-samuelson/doj-says-no-to-google-boo_b_…

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Interessante articolo su Liberation
by Marco Pancini Sept. 22, 2009

Sept. 22, 2009

Vi segnalo quest'articolo sul caso Vividown pubblicato ieri su Liberation: http://www.ecrans.fr/Un-proces-crucial-pour-le-futur-d,8103.html A presto. marco -- Marco Pancini European Senior Policy Counsel Google Italy Corso Europa, 2 20122 Milano, Italia Tel. +39 02 36618524 Cell. +39.348.9946222 pancini(a)google.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/googlepolicyit 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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Repubblica: "Guna, nel mondo dell’omeopatia vince la strategia del "copyleft""
by J.C. DE MARTIN Sept. 22, 2009

Sept. 22, 2009

Guna, nel mondo dell’omeopatia vince la strategia del "copyleft" CHRISTIAN BENNA È il copyleft in provetta la ricetta giusta per prevenire e curare i malanni di stagione. Anche per chi investe fino al 20% dei ricavi in ricerca e sviluppo. Alessandro Pizzoccaro, amministratore delegato di Guna Spa, ne è talmente convinto da aver lanciato la campagna "No Patent" su tutta la gamma di farmaci sfornati dalla sua azienda. Ogni innovazione tecnologica, di prodotto e di processo industriale ottenuta dai laboratori della società milanese viene immessa sul mercato senza protezione brevettuale, come pure è copyleft, senza diritto d’autore, ogni nuova pubblicazione editoriale, scientifica e divulgativa edita da Guna. L’imprenditore lombardo motiva così la sua decisione: «Si tratta di una scelta di business, prima ancora che di filosofia aziendale e di responsabilità sociale d’impresa. Il sistema brevettuale del farmaco, oltre che poco etico, è anticompetitivo. Perché impedisce l’ingresso di nuovi operatori e non stimola l’innovazione, rifugiandosi nella difesa del brevetto. Noi vogliamo cambiare questo trend. Più concorrenza, più ricerca scientifica. Con un beneficio per tutta la comunità». [...] Continua a: http://www.repubblica.it/supplementi/af/2009/09/21/economiaitaliana/015kada…

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Nuovo libro: "Delete - The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Sept. 22, 2009

Sept. 22, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDbsjwj2KOU Princeton University Press

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NY Times: "Google Working to Revise Digital Books Settlement"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Sept. 22, 2009

Sept. 22, 2009

September 21, 2009 Google Working to Revise Digital Books Settlement By MIGUEL HELFT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/technology/internet/21google.html For months, Google and its partners in a class-action settlement that would allow the company to create a vast digital library appeared unmoved by a rising tide of opposition. Google and its settlement partners — the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers — argued that the agreement would not harm competition, and said they were confident that it would be approved in its current form by a federal court. But the Justice Department, in a filing on Friday, made clear that the parties were busily negotiating modifications that would address some of the concerns raised. Those negotiations are likely to accelerate now that the Justice Department has said that it too believes the settlement raises serious legal issues and has urged the court not to approve it without changes. Legal experts say the new round of discussions, and the government’s intervention, are almost certain to delay an agreement that Google and the other parties were eager to see ratified quickly. “The news out of this is that there are frantic negotiations going on in back rooms right now,” said James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School, which raised antitrust and other objections to the settlement. “The parties are scared enough to be talking seriously about changes, with each other and the government. The government is being the stern parent making them do it.” Google, the guild and the publishers’ association said they were encouraged by the department’s view that the settlement offered many benefits, adding that they looked forward to addressing the department’s concerns. “Clearly, the Justice Department is saying ‘find something that would make this near universal library happen,’ ” said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. But Mr. Aiken said it was premature to discuss how the parties would proceed. The Justice Department’s filing on Friday, echoing other critics, said that the settlement could give Google a virtually exclusive license to millions of out-of-print “orphan books,” whose rights holders were unknown or cannot be found, making it impossible for anyone else to build a comparable digital library; the interests of some class members, including authors of orphan works and foreign authors, might not have been adequately represented; and the efforts to notify class members about the settlement might have been inadequate. But unlike some of the more strident opponents, who have argued that the settlement is so flawed that it must be rejected, the Justice Department said it hoped the accord could be fixed so that its benefits — most notable the unprecedented access to millions of out-of-print books it would offer — could be achieved. And it said the parties appeared willing to make changes to address such concerns. Laying out a path forward, the department said some of its antitrust concerns could be mitigated by “some mechanism by which Google’s competitors’ could gain comparable access to orphan works.” And it said that concerns about the fair representation of some authors could be addressed if some rights for Google to profit from out-of-print books were granted only if their authors agreed, rather than by default. Legal experts suggest that proposal could prove to be a sticking point, as it would not allow Google to offer a comprehensive library. But even the Justice Department suggested there could be other solutions. Andrew I. Gavil, a law professor at Howard University, said a judge was unlikely to approve the current settlement, “hence, it is also very likely that the parties will revise the settlement in an effort to secure its approval.” Judge Denny Chin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has given the parties until Oct. 2 to respond to the objections and has scheduled a hearing on the case for Oct. 7. But some experts say the case is likely to be delayed well beyond that, as changes to the settlement are likely to require members of the class to be notified, a process that could take months. And even after that, a resolution may not be immediate. “Whatever action the district court takes, there could also be appeals,” Mr. Gavil said. “So I think we are probably still a ways off from a truly final resolution.”

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