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Re: [nexa] Il diritto d'autore è morto

by Paolo Brini

May 23, 2011

Il diritto d'autore è morto

by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it

May 23, 2011

R: Civil Society Statement to the e-G8 and G8

by Fiorello Cortiana

Questo è l'appello al G8 che abbiamo contribuito a promuovere come IRP-Internet Rights and Principles Coalition Fatene buon uso ;-) Fiorello Civil Society Statement to the e-G8 and G8 The signatories of this statement are representatives of civil society from around the world working towards the promotion of Internet freedom, digital rights, and open communication. We understand that the French Presidency of the G8 is holding a G8 internet meeting -- the "eG8 Forum" -- immediately before the G8 Summit in Deauville, with a view to shaping the agenda of the G8 Summit regarding key global internet policy issues. This meeting is significant in that this is the first year that the internet’s role in society and the economy is explicitly on the G8 agenda. As key world leaders, your policies have a major influence on internet policy globally. Regrettably, certain policies being implemented in the most developed economies are undermining the open and neutral internet -- the very qualities that represent the essence of its democratic and economic potential. We believe that G8 Member States should use the e-G8 meeting as an opportunity to publicly commit to expanding internet access for all, combating digital censorship and surveillance, limiting online intermediary liability, and upholding principles of net neutrality. Internet Access for All We are particularly concerned about the increasing trend of nations cutting off citizens’ access to the Internet and mobile networks in times of crisis, as Egypt, Libya, Iran, China, Nepal, and Burma have all done. In many if not all of these countries, we see how important access to the Internet is as a gateway to a plethora of others civil, political, and fundamental human rights. Many G8 countries are actively pursuing policies that would similarly seek to restrict and control access; these policies legitimize actions of repressive regimes and threaten the core of the internet economy. As many nations endeavor to improve basic and universal access, the increase of restrictive policies in both the developed and developing world is a regressive and deeply worrying trend. Freedom from Online Censorship & Surveillance Simultaneously, repressive regimes are harnessing the internet’s power for their own purposes, often with the help of multinational corporations based in G8 countries. We urge you to end the sale of these technologies both at home and abroad, and put an end to these gross invasions of user privacy and security. Online Intermediary Liability and Intellectual PropertyTo defend freedom of speech online it is critical that we resist mounting pressure from the entertainment industry and other sectors to impose greater intermediary liability on online service providers for the actions of their users through instruments like HADOPI and ACTA. In this regard, we urge you to follow the example of the Brazilian government’s Principles for the Governance and Use of the Internet, specifically #7 which reads: “All action taken against illicit activity on the network must be aimed at those directly responsible for such activities, and not at the means of access and transport, always upholding the fundamental principles of freedom, privacy and the respect for human rights.” 1 Net Neutrality We further call on you to commit your nations to protecting net neutrality -- the principle that all web traffic should be treated on an equitable basis no matter where it originated or the type of data being transmitted. These are some of the key Internet governance issues which we feel merit and require the attention of the G8. We also draw your attention to two comprehensive declarations of principles we believe should guide nation states in Internet governance: ● The 10 Internet Rights and Principles developed under the aegis of the Internet Rights and Principles Coalition 2 . ● Assembly Declaration of the right of Communication, written at the World Social Forum 2011. 3 We would also like to highlight our concerns regarding the planning of the e-G8. We join our voices to the Internet Governance Caucus 4 which expresses our collective concern about the lack of representation of civil society at the e-G8 and G8 meetings this year. Contrary to current best practices in policymaking, the invite list has been limited primarily to representatives of government and corporate leaders, who already enjoy disproportionately large influence over Internet regulation. Specifically, we are deeply concerned that corporate interests will dominate discussions at the e-G8 and G8 summits; issues like strict intellectual property enforcement and increasing online intermediary liability seem likely to take primacy over citizen-centered policies like net neutrality, Free Software, and combating online censorship. 1 The full document of which is available at: http://www.cgi.br/english/regulations/resolution2009-003.htm 2 The English version is available here: http://internetrightsandprinciples.org/node/397 and in French here: http://internetrightsandprinciples.org/node/400 3 http://fsm2011.org/en/the-right-to-inform-and-be-informed 4 http://www.igcaucus.org/open-letter-president-sarkozy-eg8-meeting-planAs corporations pay $100,000 for seats at the e-G8 table, few representatives of civil society are present to advocate for the priorities of citizen-users of the world. We are at a critical point in the history of the Internet and the struggle for human rights. As the elected leadership of some of the world’s most powerful nations, we urge you to act now to uphold and defend the principles of digital rights and internet freedom, not just for your citizens, but for people all over the world. Signed, Access - www.accessnow.org Association for Progressive Communications (APC) - www.apc.org Association pour la Taxation des Transactions financière et l'Aide aux Citoyens (ATTAC) - www.attac.org Digital Democracy - www.digital-democracy.org Digitale Gesellschaft - http://digitalegesellschaft.de European Digital Rights (EDRi) - www.edri.org Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - www.eff.org The Guardian Project - www.guardianproject.info Internet Rights & Principles Coalition - www.internetrightsandprinciples.org The Julia Group/Juliagruppen - www.juliagruppen.se La Quadrature du Net (LQDN) - www.laquadrature.net May First/People Link - www.mayfirst.org MobileActive - www.mobileactive.org Movements.org - www.movements.org Open Rights Group (ORG) - www.openrightsgroup.org Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) - www.rsf.org WITNESS - www.witness.org VECAM - www.vecam.org

May 23, 2011

Re: [nexa] Call for DPLA Beta Sprint Submissions

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Hmmm.... you are right. Besides, I really do not understand the reason for that provision. If an appropriate open license grants what DPLA wants, why asking for prior approval? juan carlos Il 22/5/11 12:47 PM, Philippe Aigrain ha scritto: > I object to the terms of licensing (and their being called "intellectual > property policy"). The fact that CC or GPL licensing is submitted to the > prior written approval of the DPLA Steering Committee, is clearly > unacceptable. > > Philippe > > By providing your Submission to the DPLA Beta Sprint, you are granting > the Berkman Center, the DPLA Steering Committee, and the DPLA > Secretariat a non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, perpetual, > irrevocable, and worldwide license to use your Submission for the > purposes of carrying out the DPLA’s work and mission, including, without > limitation, the license rights to sublicense, store, copy, reproduce, > distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, encode, edit, > translate, reformat, and prepare derivative works of your Submission or > of any derivative work in any format or medium, and/or to incorporate it > into a collective work. Participants may, with the prior written > approval of the DPLA Steering Committee, effectuate the license granted > upon making a Submission pursuant to this IP Policy through the use of > an appropriate “open” license such as a Creative Commons license or the > GPL that provides to the Berkman Center, the DPLA Steering Committee, > and the DPLA Secretariat all the rights set forth above. > > Le 20/05/2011 16:51, J.C. DE MARTIN a écrit : >> *Call for DPLA Beta Sprint Submissions* >> >> *Press release:* >> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/Digital_Public_Library_America_Beta_S… >> >> The Digital Public Library of America >> <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/dpla> (DPLA) Steering Committee >> seeks innovations from individuals, libraries, organizations, and others >> that could play a part in the building of a digital public library. >> Steering Committee Chair John Palfrey presents the DPLA Beta Sprint in >> the following short video: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrmO-qUzjxM >> >> The Beta Sprint seeks, ideas, models, prototypes, technical tools, user >> interfaces, etc.—put forth as a written statement, a visual display, >> code, or a combination of forms—that demonstrate how the DPLA might >> index and provide access to a wide range of broadly distributed content. >> The Beta Sprint also encourages development of betas that suggest >> alternative designs or that focus on particular parts of the system, >> rather than on the DPLA as a whole. >> >> While submissions should be consonant with the description of the DPLA >> that is set forth in the four-page Concept Note >> <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/dpla/Concept_Note> posted on the DPLA >> wiki, the notion is not that we expect anything to be “done,” but rather >> that submissions be expressive of a direction in which we might take the >> DPLA. >> >> [...] >> >> Continua qui: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dpla/ >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nexa mailing list >> nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it >> https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

May 22, 2011

Re: [nexa] Call for DPLA Beta Sprint Submissions

by Philippe Aigrain

I object to the terms of licensing (and their being called "intellectual property policy"). The fact that CC or GPL licensing is submitted to the prior written approval of the DPLA Steering Committee, is clearly unacceptable. Philippe By providing your Submission to the DPLA Beta Sprint, you are granting the Berkman Center, the DPLA Steering Committee, and the DPLA Secretariat a non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and worldwide license to use your Submission for the purposes of carrying out the DPLA’s work and mission, including, without limitation, the license rights to sublicense, store, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, encode, edit, translate, reformat, and prepare derivative works of your Submission or of any derivative work in any format or medium, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work. Participants may, with the prior written approval of the DPLA Steering Committee, effectuate the license granted upon making a Submission pursuant to this IP Policy through the use of an appropriate “open” license such as a Creative Commons license or the GPL that provides to the Berkman Center, the DPLA Steering Committee, and the DPLA Secretariat all the rights set forth above. Le 20/05/2011 16:51, J.C. DE MARTIN a écrit : > > *Call for DPLA Beta Sprint Submissions* > > *Press release:* > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/Digital_Public_Library_America_Beta_S… > > The Digital Public Library of America > <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/dpla> (DPLA) Steering Committee > seeks innovations from individuals, libraries, organizations, and others > that could play a part in the building of a digital public library. > Steering Committee Chair John Palfrey presents the DPLA Beta Sprint in > the following short video: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrmO-qUzjxM > > The Beta Sprint seeks, ideas, models, prototypes, technical tools, user > interfaces, etc.—put forth as a written statement, a visual display, > code, or a combination of forms—that demonstrate how the DPLA might > index and provide access to a wide range of broadly distributed content. > The Beta Sprint also encourages development of betas that suggest > alternative designs or that focus on particular parts of the system, > rather than on the DPLA as a whole. > > While submissions should be consonant with the description of the DPLA > that is set forth in the four-page Concept Note > <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/dpla/Concept_Note> posted on the DPLA > wiki, the notion is not that we expect anything to be “done,” but rather > that submissions be expressive of a direction in which we might take the > DPLA. > > [...] > > Continua qui: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dpla/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

May 22, 2011

Re: [nexa] eg8 occasione da non perdere per Internet o rischio per la libertà?

by Paolo Brini

May 22, 2011

Guardian: "Hargreaves report recommends overhaul of copyright laws"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Hargreaves report recommends overhaul of copyright laws /Report says archaic intellectual property laws obstruct innovation and economic growth, particularly online/ * Mark Sweney <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/marksweney> * guardian.co.uk <http://www.guardian.co.uk/>, Wednesday 18 May 2011 09.55 BST Professor Ian Hargreaves has made 10 major recommendations to free-up restrictive intellectual property <http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/intellectual-property> and copyright laws that "obstruct innovation and economic growth in the UK". Hargreaves, who has today published the conclusions of a five-month review in a 123-page report, found that businesses aiming to take advantage of opportunities in areas such as the internet are being held back by often archaic laws. "Could it be true that laws designed more than three centuries ago, with the express purpose of creating economic incentives for innovation by protecting creators' rights, are today obstructing innovation and economic growth?" said Hargreaves. "The short answer is: yes." Hargreaves said that the single biggest failing in the current system relates to copyright -- "once the exclusive concern of authors and their publishers" -- for which the current laws are "falling behind what are needed". [...] Continua qui: http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/may/18/hargreaves-report-recommends-over…

May 21, 2011

eg8 occasione da non perdere per Internet o rischio per la libertà?

by Masera Anna

http://www.lastampa.it/_web/CMSTP/tmplrubriche/giornalisti/grubrica.asp?ID_… se volete mandarmi le vostre opinioni nel blog, vi pubblico volentieri per approfondire i pro e i contro a ridosso dell'appuntamento. grazie, anna masera

May 20, 2011

Call for DPLA Beta Sprint Submissions

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Call for DPLA Beta Sprint Submissions* *Press release:* http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/Digital_Public_Library_America_Beta_S… The Digital Public Library of America <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/dpla> (DPLA) Steering Committee seeks innovations from individuals, libraries, organizations, and others that could play a part in the building of a digital public library. Steering Committee Chair John Palfrey presents the DPLA Beta Sprint in the following short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrmO-qUzjxM The Beta Sprint seeks, ideas, models, prototypes, technical tools, user interfaces, etc.---put forth as a written statement, a visual display, code, or a combination of forms---that demonstrate how the DPLA might index and provide access to a wide range of broadly distributed content. The Beta Sprint also encourages development of betas that suggest alternative designs or that focus on particular parts of the system, rather than on the DPLA as a whole. While submissions should be consonant with the description of the DPLA that is set forth in the four-page Concept Note <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/dpla/Concept_Note> posted on the DPLA wiki, the notion is not that we expect anything to be "done," but rather that submissions be expressive of a direction in which we might take the DPLA. [...] Continua qui: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dpla/

May 20, 2011

Re: [nexa] Released Neubot 0.3.7

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Bravo, Simone! :-) juan carlos Il 20/5/11 9:56 AM, Simone Basso ha scritto: > Released Neubot 0.3.7 > > http://www.neubot.org/neubot-0.3.7 > > Version 0.3.7 is the fourth generally-available stable release of Neubot, > coming after two months of hard work. It is distributed as: a .deb package > for Debian and Ubuntu; a zipped application for MacOSX; an installer for > Windows XP SP3+. It is also available in source format. > > This release contains 483 patches, accounting for about 25% of the whole > project history. The diffstat says that 131 files have been changed, with > 9753 inserted lines, and 12362 deleted lines. > > Given this large amount of changes it's not possible to list them all, > so here we pick just the most relevant ones: > > o the speedtest Test has been rewritten for improved robustness > and reliability; > > o the privacy policy has been improved to allow the project to > share results with other researchers in a better way. > > Please, take some time to read the improved privacy policy and > set the privacy permissions. In order to do that, open the web > user interface of Neubot (at http://127.0.0.1:9774/) then go > to the "Privacy" tab; > > o the web user interface has been extended and now includes: a tab > to view Neubot logs; a tab to fine-tune privacy permissions; a tab > to control all the settings; > > o the architecture of Neubot has been improved for transparency, > allowing to trace and close various bugs; > > o the core of Neubot has been extended so that now it is possible > to configure almost everything from the web user interface; > > o also, now the configuration of Neubot lives into the database, > again to allow to adjust settings via the web user interface; > > o the architecture of Neubot has been improved for modularity, to > simplify the task of writing new Tests; > > o the database, that used to store opaque results in XML format, > now saves them into a table allowing for more advanced filtering > and analysis from the web interface. > > Most of the code has been tested for a long time, thanks to an improved > everyday write-test-deploy workflow. The release has been tested for > seven days on Ubuntu Linux 10.10, Windows XP SP3, Windows 7, and MacOSX > 10.6. > > Packages and source archives available here: > > http://www.neubot.org/download > > ChangeLog here: > > https://github.com/neubot/neubot/blob/0.3.7/ChangeLog > > Commit history here: > > https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commits/0.3.7 > > People that contributed to this release: > > Simone Basso > Antonio Servetti > Federico Morando > Juan Carlos De Martin > Claudio Artusio > Monica Alessia Senor > Alessio Palmero Aprosio > Roberto D'Auria > Lorenzo Filiberti > > Thank you, > Simone Basso<http://www.neubot.org/people#basso> > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >

May 20, 2011