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Lessig manda il suo blog in letargo
by J.C. DE MARTIN Sept. 27, 2009

Sept. 27, 2009

http://lessig.org/blog/2009/08/announcing_the_hibernation_of.html Announcing the hibernation of lessig.org/blog (from the blogs-deserve-a-sabbatical-too department) August 20, 2009 2:15 AM - comments (69) So my blog turns seven today. On August 20, 2002, while hiding north of San Francisco working on the Eldred appeal, I penned my first (wildly and embarrassingly defensive) missive to Dave. Some 1753 entries later, I'm letting the blog rest. This will be the last post in this frame. Who knows what the future will bring, but in the near term, it won't bring more in lessig.org/blog. The reasons are many. First, as I peer over the abyss of child number 3 (expected in a couple weeks), I can't begin to imagine how I would be able to allocate the time to give this space the attention it needs. I've already fretted about my failure to give this community the time it deserves in REMIX. Things will only get worse. Second, even if I could, I'm entering a stage of my work when the ratio of speaking to reading/listening/thinking is changing significantly. I've just taken up my role as director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. As announced, this means the launch of a 5 year research project on institutional corruption. While I expect that project will have a critical cyber-presence, I don't want its life to be framed by this blog. The mission, the understanding, the community is different. Third, even if I could, and even if the work I was doing meant I should, there's an increasingly technical burden to maintaining a blog that I don't have the cycles to support. Some very good friends -- Theo Armour and M. David Peterson -- have been volunteering time to do the mechanics of site maintenance. That has gotten overwhelming. Theo estimates that 1/3 of the 30,000 comments that were posted to the blog over these 7 years were fraudsters. He's been working endlessly to remove them. At one point late last year, Google kicked me off their index because too many illegal casino sites were linking from the bowels of my server. I know some will respond with the equivalent of "you should have put bars on your windows and double bolted locks on your front door." Maybe. Or maybe had legislatures devoted 1/10th the energy devoted to the copyright wars to addressing this muck, it might be easier for free speech to be free. This isn't an announcement of my disappearance. I'm still trying to understand twitter. My channel at blip.tv will remain. As will the podcast, updated as I speak. I will continue to guest blog at Huffington Post. And as Change-Congress.org enters a new stage, I hope to be doing more there. But this community, this space, this board will now rest. Thank you to the endless list of people who have helped make this place as it is, or was. Theo and M. David especially. Marc Perkel for his free hosting at ctyme.com for so many years. And thank you especially to the inhabitants of this space, especially the fantastic commentators and loyal backbenchers (Three Blind Mice, you have to reveal yourself now and let me buy you a beer). I have enjoyed this wildly more than I have not (again, I whine in REMIX about the not). And I have been very proud to be responsible for certain bits of content -- especially the guest blogging by the interesting and famous (Howard Dean was a favorite, and I will always be proud that I got Judge Posner to experiment with blogging, leading to his wonderful blog with Gary Becker). Comments on this post will remain open for a week. And then comments on all posts will be locked. Thank you to everyone, again. Posted by Lawrence Lessig on August 20, 2009 2:15 AM | Permalink

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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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