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Today's Topics:

   1. Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18 - The Internet of
      Garbage (Giuseppe Futia)
   2. UN Special Rapporteur Presents Report on the Impact of Patent
      Law on the Right to Science and Culture (J.C. DE MARTIN)


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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:37:00 +0100
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        of      Garbage
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    The Internet of Garbage

https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Jeong
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/06/sigal>

*with Sarah Jeong*

Today, 6.00 pm

Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast
http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live

    With the international attention on the torrent of Twitter threats
    sent to Caroline Criado-Perez in 2013 (and the later prosecution of
    some of the people who sent her those threats), and national
    attention on the months-long firestorm associated with #Gamergate,
    ?harassment? is a word that is bandied around with increasing
    frequency. As it becomes more and more obvious that women are
    disparately impacted by harassment on the Internet, harassment is
    framed as a civil rights problem, legal solutions are proposed, and
    vitriol is hurled at platforms for failing to protect female users.
    There is a pervasive feeling that there is a crisis on the Internet
    that pits the safety of women against the freedom of speech. Yet the
    Internet has long grappled with what to do when unwanted speech
    makes it unusable. The history of the Web?from its oldest forgotten
    communities to the decades of anti-spam technology?can offer a new
    lens through which to understand online harassment, along with
    lessons and caveats.


          About Sarah

    Sarah Jeong is a journalist who was trained as a lawyer. She writes
    about technology, policy, and law. She is the author of The Internet
    of Garbage, and has bylines at The Verge, Forbes, The Guardian,
    Slate, and WIRED. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2014. As
    a law student, she edited the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, and
    worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and at the Berkman
    Center for Internet & Society. She is currently a fellow at the
    Internet Law & Policy Foundry.

    In 2015, she covered the Silk Road trial for Forbes.

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From: "J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin@polito.it>
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Subject: [nexa] UN Special Rapporteur Presents Report on the Impact of
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*UN Special Rapporteur Presents Report on the Impact of Patent Law on
the Right to Science and Culture**
*Posted by REPOST on October 26, 2015

http://infojustice.org/archives/35216

Farida Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of
cultural rights, presented her report on patents and access to culture
to the General Assembly. The report?s summary is below, and the full
report is available here.

Summary: In the report, the Special Rapporteur addresses the
implications of patent policy for the human right to science and
culture. She reaffirms the distinction to be made between intellectual
property rights and human rights, emphasizing that the right to the
protection of the moral and material interests of authors does not
necessarily coincide with the prevailing approach to intellectual
property law. There is no human right to patent protection. The right to
protection of moral and material interests cannot be used to defend
patent laws that inadequately respect the right to participate in
cultural life, to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its
applications, to scientific freedoms and he right to food and health and
the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities.

Patents, when properly structured, may expand the options and well-being
of all people by making new possibilities available. Yet, they also give
patent-holders the power to deny access to others, thereby limiting or
denying the public?s right of participation to science and culture. The
human rights perspective demands that patents do not extend so far as to
interfere with individuals? dignity and well-being. Where patent rights
and human rights are in conflict, human rights must prevail.

Whereas from the perspective of trade law, exclusions, exceptions and
flexibilities under international intellectual property law, such as the
World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of
Intellectual Property Rights, remain optional, from the perspective of
human rights, they are often to be considered as obligations.

Click here for the full report.


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