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https://www.valigiablu.it/direttiva-copyright-accordo-finale/
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 15, 2019

Feb. 15, 2019

https://www.valigiablu.it/direttiva-copyright-accordo-finale/ (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Own this! Applicare il modello cooperativo all’economia digitale - Pandora Rivista
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 15, 2019

Feb. 15, 2019

https://www.pandorarivista.it/articoli/cooperativismo-di-piattaforma-trebor… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Filosofia e Teologia per il futuro digitale
by don Luca Peyron Feb. 15, 2019

Feb. 15, 2019

Dichiarazioni da fonti non prevedibili... https://www.wired.it/amp/231933/economia/lavoro/2019/02/14/lavoro-filosofia… Buona lettura Dl

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Pentagon releases blueprint for accelerating artificial intelligence
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 13, 2019

Feb. 13, 2019

https://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-releases-blueprint-for-accelerating-artific… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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UE copyright rules
by Alberto Cammozzo Feb. 13, 2019

Feb. 13, 2019

<http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-19-528_en.htm> Digital Single Market: EU negotiators reach a breakthrough to modernise copyright rules Strasbourg, 13 February 2019 Today, the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the Commission found a political agreement to make the copyright rules fit for digital era in Europe and bring tangible benefits to all creative sectors, the press, researchers, educators, cultural heritage institutions, and citizens. The political agreement reached today will adapt copyright rules to today's world, where music streaming services, video-on-demand platforms, news aggregators and user-uploaded-content platforms have become the main gateways to access creative works and press articles. The agreement needs now to be confirmed by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU in the coming weeks. Vice-President for the Digital Single Market Andrus *Ansip* said: “/To finally have modern copyright rules for the whole of EU is a major achievement that was long overdue. The negotiations were difficult, but what counts in the end is that we have a fair and balanced result that is fit for a digital Europe: the freedoms and rights enjoyed by internet users today will be enhanced, our creators will be better remunerated for their work, and the internet economy will have clearer rules for operating and thriving.”/ Commissioner Mariya *Gabriel*, Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, said: /“The long awaited Copyright Directive adoption is a crucial cornerstone for our Digital Single Market. By providing a clearer legal framework fit for the digital world, it will strengthen the cultural and creative sectors, and bring added value to the European citizens.”/ *Better protection for European authors and performers and for journalism* The new Directive reinforces the position of European authors and performers in the digital environment and enhances high-quality journalism in the EU. In particular, it brings: - Tangible benefits to all creative sectors, specifically creators and actors in the audio-visual and musical sectors, by reinforcing their position vis-à-vis platforms to have more control over the use of their content uploaded by users on these platforms and be remunerated for it. - The principle of an appropriate and proportionate remuneration for authors and performers will be laid down for the first time in European copyright law. - Authors and performers will enjoy access to transparent information on how their works and performances are exploited by their counterparts (publishers and producers). This will make it easier for them to negotiate future contracts and to receive a fairer share of the generated revenues. - If publishers or producers fail to exploit the rights that authors and performers have transferred to them, authors and performers will be allowed to revoke their rights. - European press publishers will enjoy a new right, which aims to facilitate the way they negotiate how their content is re-used on online platforms. It will give journalists the right to receive a greater share of the revenues generated by the online uses of press publications. This right will not affect citizens and individual users, who will continue to enjoy and share news hyperlinks as they do today. *New rules to reinforce the interests of citizens and internet users * Users will benefit from the new licencing rules which will allow them to upload copyright protected content on platforms like YouTube or Instagram legally. They will also benefit from safeguards linked to the freedom of expression when they upload videos that contain rightholders' content, i.e. in memes or parodies. The interests of the users are preserved through effective mechanisms to swiftly contest any unjustified removal of their content by the platforms. The new Directive will ensure wider access to knowledge by simplifying copyright rules in the areas of text and data mining for research and other purposes, education and preservation of cultural heritage: * Research organisations, universities and other users will be able to make the most of the increasing number of publications and data available online for research or other purposes as they will benefit from a copyright exception to carry out text and data mining on large sets of data. This will also enhance the development of data analytics and artificial intelligence in Europe. * Students and teachers will be able to use copyrighted materials in online courses, including across borders, for the purposes of illustration for teaching. * The preservation of cultural heritage in the collections of European museums, archives and other cultural heritage institutions will have no copyright restrictions. Users will also have access to works, films or music records that are no longer commercially available in Europe today, as well as wider variety of European audiovisual works on video-on-demand (VoD) platforms. They will be completely free to share copies of paintings, sculptures and other works of art in the public domain with full legal certainty. *Next Steps* The agreed text must now be formally confirmed by the European Parliament and the Council.Once confirmed and published on the Official Journal of the EU, the Member States will have 24 months to transpose the new rules into their national legislation. *Background* Commission's surveys showed in 2016 that 57% of internet users access press articles via social networks, information aggregators or search engines. 47% of these users read extracts compiled by these sites without clicking through. The same trend was observed for the music and film industry: 49% of internet users in the EU access music or audiovisual content online, 40% of those aged 15-24 watched TV online at least once a week. This trend has rocketed since then. In September 2016, the European Commission proposed to modernise EU Copyright rules for European culture to flourish and circulate, as part of the Digital Single Market Strategy <https://ec.europa.eu/commission/priorities/digital-single-market_en>. The EU Copyright reform is a priority file for the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission, who have committed to adopt it by the end of this legislative mandate. It modernises EU copyright rules which date back to 2001 – an eternity in the digital age. Back then, there were no social media, no video on demand, no museums digitising their art collections and no teacher providing online courses. Today's agreement is a part of a broader initiative to adapt EU copyright rules <https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/modernisation-eu-copyright-ru…> to the digital age. In December 2018, EU co-legislators agreed on new rules <http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-6541_en.htm> to make it easier for European broadcasters to make certain programmes available on their live TV or catch-up services online. And since 1 April 2018, Europeans who buy or subscribe to films, sports broadcasts, music, e-books and games in their home Member State are able to access this content when they travel <https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/cross-border-portability-onli…> or stay temporarily in another EU country. *More information* * Questions and Answers: EU negotiators reach a breakthrough to modernise copyright rules <http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-19-1151_en.htm> * Factsheet * Press release of the European Parliament on Copyright Directive <http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20190212IPR26152> * Press release: Commission proposes modern EU copyright rules for European culture to flourish and circulate <http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-3010_en.htm> * Factsheet <https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/modern-eu-copyright-rule…> * Factsheet: How the EU support cinema and the audiovisual sector <https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/how-eu-supports-cinema-a…> * Copyright FAQs https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/faq/frequently-asked-question… * Eurobarometer https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/new-eurobarometer-shows-…

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Russia to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test
by Giacomo Tesio Feb. 13, 2019

Feb. 13, 2019

C'è una triste ironia in questo. Mentre la Russia (il cui governo, ricordiamo, sta usando le vulnerabilità lasciate aperte da campioni della privacy come Mozilla per identificare coloro che dispongono dell'infrastruttura per individuare un'attacco JavaScript) vuole scollegarsi dalla rete di reti internazionale (o più precisamente, vuole controllare cosa entra e cosa esce), l'Europa non fa nulla per renderla più resiliente, meno legata al dominio USA. Giacomo ______ A first draft of the law mandated that Russian internet providers should ensure the independence of the Russian internet space (Runet) in the case of foreign aggression to disconnect the country from the rest of the internet. In addition, Russian telecom firms would also have to install "technical means" to re-route all Russian internet traffic to exchange points approved or managed by Roskomnazor, Russia's telecom watchdog. Roskomnazor will inspect the traffic to block prohibited content and make sure traffic between Russian users stays inside the country, and is not re-routed uselessly through servers abroad, where it could be intercepted. [...] The Russian government has been working on this project for years. In 2017, Russian officials said they plan to route 95 percent of all internet traffic locally by 2020. Authorities have even built a local backup of the Domain Name System (DNS), which they first tested in 2014, and again in 2018, and which will now be a major component of the Runet when ISPs plan to disconnect the country from the rest of the world. Russia's response comes as NATO countries announced several times that they were mulling a stronger response to cyber attacks, of which Russia is constantly accused of carrying out. https://www.zdnet.com/article/russia-to-disconnect-from-the-internet-as-par…

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Intermediati e platform
by Giuseppe Attardi Feb. 13, 2019

Feb. 13, 2019

Stefano Quintarelli chiama gli intermediati ad unirsi (https://blog.quintarelli.it/2018/07/intermediati-di-tutto-il-mondo-unitevi.…) Ma gli intemediati sono prigionieri delle platform, a causa degli effetti delle power law e dei costi marginali per servire un singolo utente: On many digital networks the cost of serving an additional user is negligible, which makes a business inherently easier to scale up. And because much of a network-based firm’s operational complexity is outsourced to the service providers on the platform or handled by software, bottlenecks to value creation and growth usually aren’t tied to human or organizational factors—another important departure from traditional models. Ultimately, in a digital network business, the employees don’t deliver the product or service—they just design and oversee an automated, algorithm-driven operation. Lasting competitive advantage hinges more on the interplay between the platform and the network it orchestrates and less on internal, firm-level factors. In other words, in the digitally connected economy the long-term success of a product or service depends heavily on the health, defensibility, and dominance of the ecosystem in which it operates. Una possibile via d'uscita sarebbe quella di costruire cluster locali, federati a livello globale, che condividono i guadagni, anziché concentrarli sul fornitore di un'unica piattaforma centrale. https://hbr.org/2019/01/why-some-platforms-thrive-and-others-dont --

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Document: Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence - Lawfare
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 12, 2019

Feb. 12, 2019

https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-executive-order-artificial-intelligence (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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'F*ck ethics. Money is everything': Facebook employees react to scandal on gossip app
by Giacomo Tesio Feb. 11, 2019

Feb. 11, 2019

"The constant negative media attention is annoying, but I make 5x what I did at Oracle 8 years ago," read one response from a Facebook employee. "And frankly, I'd be more embarrassed to tell people that I worked at Oracle than FB." Another post, which Blind confirmed to Mashable was from a Facebook employee, is a little less diplomatic. "Morale is super high," reads the post from a self-described engineer. "We are paid a ton. Looking forward to my yearly bonus of $100k. Fuck ethics. Money is everything." https://mashable.com/article/facebook-employees-react-teen-spying-app-blind/ ____ Passaggi che spiegano bene perché, sebbene importante per noi programmatori, la redenzione dell'informatica NON arriverà dalla sindacalizzazione dei programmatori. Né dall'istituzione di una casta / ordine degli ingegneri informatici che presupponga il superamento di esami in "Etica". Mostrano anche quanto sia ingenuo, frivolo e pericoloso pensare di iniettare etica nelle AI, quando chi le programma "se ne fotte" (traduzione letterale). La gente non dovrebbe (essere costretta a) fidarsi di noi. Giacomo

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116° Mercoledì di Nexa | 13 febbraio 2019
by Nexa Media Feb. 11, 2019

Feb. 11, 2019

Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-116> NEXA 116° Mercoledì di Nexa Mercoledì 13 febbraio 2019, ore 18.00 - 20.00 Politecnico di Torino http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-116 Analogico digitale. Un viaggio tra immagini e tecnica Speaker Enzo Obiso (Fotografo - Direttore Centro PHOS) This event will be webcast live: https://nexa.polito.it/nexa-hangout-on-air Ciò che la fotografia riproduce all'infinito ha avuto luogo solo una volta, scriveva Roland Barthes. *Il seminario proporrà un percorso all’interno dell’opera di Enzo Obiso*, dagli esordi fino a progetti più recenti, per inquadrare il significato di un’immagine tecnica, i criteri che la definiscono, così come le scelte d’autore alla base del gesto fotografico. In un’epoca, la nostra, in cui la tecnologia tende ad automatizzare i pensieri e i desideri, appare sempre più necessario riconoscere *il punto di vista di un fotografo, poiché in grado di dominare la tecnica* e piegarla a una “ricostruzione del mondo”. Le immagini sono una mediazione fra il mondo e l'uomo. A volte sono mappe, a volte sono schermi che non rappresentano il mondo, ma lo alterano, rovesciando la loro funzione di conoscenza in "idolatria". Dominare la tecnica consente di decifrare ciò che gli apparati fotografici producono ed evitare che l'immaginazione si volga in allucinazione. Il Professor *Federico Vercellone* interverrà nel ruolo di discussant. BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari [OBISO] *Enzo OBISO* si forma all’Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino dove approfondisce le tecniche di stampa fine art con Giorgio Avigdor. Realizza mostre personali in gallerie d’arte contemporanea in Italia e all'estero. Pubblica le sue fotografie in progetti editoriali, libri e cataloghi di mostre. Insegna all’Istituto Europeo di Design di Torino, per il quale è coordinatore del corso triennale di fotografia e del CSP. Dal gennaio 2011 è Direttore di PHOS, centro polifunzionale per la fotografia e le arti visive. *Federico VERCELLONE* è professore ordinario di Estetica presso l'Università di Torino. Tra le sue pubblicazioni più recenti: /Oltre la bellezza/, Il Mulino, 2008; /Pensare per immagini/ con Olaf Breidbach, Bruno Mondadori, 2010; /Anschauung Denken/, con Olaf Breidbach, Wilhelm Fink, 2011; /Dopo la morte dell'arte/, Il Mulino, 2013; /Il futuro dell'immagine/, Il Mulino, 2017; /Simboli della fine/, Il Mulino, 2018. *Letture consigliate e link utili:* * Roland Barthes, /Camera chiara/, Einaudi 2003. * Vilém Flusser, /Per una filosofia della fotografia/, Bruno Mondadori 2006. * Claudio Marra, /L'immagine infedele. La falsa rivoluzione della fotografia digitale/, Bruno Mondadori 2006. * Paolo Morelli, /Guida pratica al mercato della fotografia/, Istuto superiore per la storia della fotografia, 1998. * William Crawford, /L'età del collodio : gli ingredienti e le ricette nella camera oscura dell'800/, Cesco Ciapanna Editore 1981. Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e i cicli di incontri “Mercoledì di Nexa” e “Nexa Lunch Seminar” #mercoledì116 <https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23mercoled%C3%AC116&src=typd> #Fotografia <https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=%23fotografia&src=typd> #nexawednesday <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nexawednesday&src=typd> Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica) è un centro di ricerca indipendente e interdisciplinare che studia Internet e il suo effetto sulla società. Maggiori informazioni all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/about. Durante i “*Mercoledì di Nexa*”, che si tengono *ogni 2° mercoledì del mese* alle *ore 18 in punto*, il Centro Nexa su Internet e Società apre le sue porte non solo agli esperti e a tutti coloro i quali lavorano con Internet, ma anche a semplici appassionati e cittadini. Il ciclo di incontri intende approfondire, con un linguaggio preciso ma divulgativo, i temi legati alla Rete: motori di ricerca, Creative Commons, social networks, open source/software libero, neutralità della rete, libertà di espressione, privacy, file sharing, big e open data, smart cities e molto altro. Al centro di quasi tutti gli incontri un ospite pronto a dialogare con i direttori del Centro Nexa, il Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin del Politecnico di Torino e il Prof. Marco Ricolfi dell'Università di Torino, nonché lo staff e i Fellows del Centro Nexa. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa, incluso un elenco di tutti i “Mercoledì” passati, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi. Si segnala inoltre che dal maggio 2012 *ogni 4° mercoledì* del mese *dalle ore 13 alle ore 14* il Centro Nexa organizza anche i "*Nexa Lunch Seminar*". Una lista di tutti i “Lunch Seminar” passati è disponibile all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-seminars. See our events calendar <http://nexa.polito.it/events> if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, and conferences not listed in this email. Our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Responsabile Comunicazione Centro Nexa su Internet & Società: *Francesco Ruggiero*, tel: +39 011 090 7219, Mob: +39 349 1335082, francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it <mailto:francesco.ruggiero@polito.it>. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa e i Nexa Lunch Seminar, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/events. Weekly Events Newsletter. Sign up <http://nexa.polito.it/mailing-lists> to receive this newsletter if this email was forwarded to you. 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