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alexbelov

Blockai uses the blockchain to help artists protect their intellectual property | TechC... - 0 views

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DRM intellectual property blockchain

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  • the goal here is to create proof of creation in a public database (namely, the blockchain) without necessarily dealing with the time and cost of officially registering
  • “The blockchain is the perfect solution for providing proof of creation,” Lands said. “It’s a permanent immutable record. Meaning, once the record is there it’s there forever and will never change.”
  • “The ideal future system is one where there is a universal database for claiming ownership of creations and for paying royalties,” Lands added. “Making it as simple as possible for people to do the right thing.”
  • alexbelov on 15 Mar 16
     
    Blockchain is the promising technology of the nearest future for intellectual property protection because its use involves minimum time and cost both for individual creators and companies.
Irina Marchenko

Russia starts censoring internet suicide content after passing child protection law - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...s-down-on-online-suicide-pages

Legislation Kids Safey

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  • Irina Marchenko on 06 Aug 13
     
    Last year Russia passed a law giving the government powers to control and blacklist certain websites that it deemed to be harmful to children Outgoing FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has said the legislation signals "a troubling and dangerous direction" for the internet in Russia, and speaking to the Times, journalist Anton Nosik called the laws "absurd, harmful, and absolutely unnecessary" - while playing down the likelihood of a broader enforcement across the web. The government, for its part, argues that the bill was designed to protect children from harm by blocking pages on drugs, suicide, or child pornography.
alexkozh

How Algorithms Impact Our Decisions - 2 views

knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/...algorithms-decision-making

decision AI 'legal protection'

shared by alexkozh on 15 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • we have a literal interpretation of free will now in the context of algorithms, which is: Are you making the final choice?
  • a third of your choices on Amazon are driven by recommendations. Eighty percent of viewing activities on Netflix are driven by algorithmic recommendations. Seventy percent of the time people spend on YouTube is driven by algorithmic recommendations
  • We might see less than 0.01% of any search results, because rarely do we even cross page one. The algorithm has decided which pages we look at. So yes, they’re making a lot of choices for us.
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  • But we don’t have the level of independent decision-making we think we have. We think we see the recommendations and then we do what we want, but algorithms are actually nudging us in interesting ways
  • The key message is that we are going into a world where these algorithms will help us make better decisions. We’ll have growing pains along the way.
  • alexkozh on 15 Apr 19
     
    Recommendating system of IT companies begin influence our decision-making more significantly. Our choice is driven by algorithmic recommendations. Legal protection is needed against AI recommendating systems.
alexbelov

Unauthorized use of some inventions will not be considered patent infrigement in Russia - 0 views

vc.ru/fas-patents-rus

technology Social economy intellectual property

shared by alexbelov on 17 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Федеральная антимонопольная служба (ФАС) подготовила законопроект с поправками в Гражданский кодекс, которые создают механизм принуждения владельцев патентов к передаче прав на свои изобретения третьим лицам. Бизнес считает такие методы «рейдерством на уровне государства»,
  • Согласно задумке ФАС, принуждать к передаче патентов можно будет владельцев прав на создание «социально необходимых товаров», причём к этой категории могут относиться как лекарства, так и любые другие продукты. Разработанный ведомством механизм позволяет передавать права по решению суда, если владелец патента ограничивает производство таких товаров и создаёт дефицит на рынке.
  • законопроект не нарушает международные нормы, так как соглашение по торговым аспектам прав интеллектуальной собственности позволяет использовать объект патента без согласия правообладателя, если это допускает национальное законодательство страны-члена ВТО
  • alexbelov on 17 Mar 16
     
    The projected change in the patent law will allow to ignore patent protection of inventions, if they cause shortage of "socially valuable" products on the market, including but not limited to drugs.
Ekaterina Movchan

Huge reserves of freshwater lie beneath the ocean floor - 0 views

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  • Ekaterina Movchan on 09 Feb 14
     
    Scientists in Australia have reported the discovery of huge freshwater reserves preserved in aquifers under the world's oceans. The water has remained shielded from seawater thanks to the accumulation of a protective layer of sediment and clay. And it's not a local phenomenon. Such reserves are to be found under continental shelves off Australia, China, North America and South Africa.Scientists in Australia have reported the discovery of huge freshwater reserves preserved in aquifers under the world's oceans. The water has remained shielded from seawater thanks to the accumulation of a protective layer of sediment and clay. And it's not a local phenomenon. Such reserves are to be found under continental shelves off Australia, China, North America and South Africa.
al_semenchenko

The Next Star Wars Movie Has Recruited a Team of Drones to Protect Its Secrets - 1 views

gizmodo.com/ed-a-team-of-drones-1760542258

drones Technology privacy security entertainment

shared by al_semenchenko on 22 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Accessible drone technology is creating a bizarre future in the world of movie making
  • A Croatian website, MosCroatia first reported the drone detail in a larger update about Episode VIII will be doing some location filming in Dubrovnik, a popular tourist destination in the southern part of the country. Aside from reportedly having six hundred guards being deployed on location to try and prevent the public from snapping any sneaky pictures, the skies above filming will be protected by a team of remote-controlled drones that will target anyone attempting to fly a drone of their own over the set.
Maria Gurova

The Public Costs of Private Distribution Strategies: Content Release Windows as Negativ... - 0 views

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Theatrical windowing strategy Political policy legal Copyright content production piracy Pirates don't Surrender

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  • “copyright extremism” – a term he used to describe extended delays in content distribution, which often result in content reaching foreign markets months after it is released in the United States.
  • Essentially, “extremism” is another way of saying that piracy is more a business model problem than a policy problem. 
  • The strategy of windowing has long been practiced because it is believed to maximize revenue opportunities for a given film.  By giving successive distribution channels exclusive rights to the work, a film distributor aims to extract maximum revenues from licensees in each channel.
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  • Even if film distributors were to reject the conventional wisdom of windowing, those windows are jealously guarded by their respective sectors.  The theatrical exhibition window is particularly so
  • announced in September 2014 that they would distribute a sequel to the 2000 hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon simultaneously via Netflix and IMAX theaters worldwide, movie theater chains swiftly circled the wagons and announced a boycott of the Weinsteins’ film.
  • “value of ownership for the consumer” is a euphemism for “consumer willingness-to-pay.”  The longer a consumer must wait before they can watch a movie on their Netflix subscription, the likelier that consumer is to pay for a DVD
  • numerous industries have attempted to insulate themselves from disruption by persuading lawmakers to prescribe their exclusive industrial role in public laws, including auto dealers and beer distributors
  • windowing has been widely criticized as contributing to piracy, and “leaving money on the table.”  Empirical evidence bears that out.  Content producers are not unaware of this data; their calculus is that the revenues attributable to aggressive windowing (and avoiding friction with their distributors) exceed losses associated with piracy.
  • Windowing alienates consumers and arguably undermines respect for copyright in countries that receive content late
  • In the content distribution example, compensation might involve repayment for government resources expended on attributable piracy, perhaps based on a user-fee model that various government agencies already have.  If the windowed release distribution model generated more revenue than the costs it incurs, it would continue, taxpayers would be made whole, and the externality would be “internalized.”
Irina Marchenko

All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed - Esther Entin - The At... - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...246422

Play KE kid's health

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  • "Since about 1955 ... children's free play has been continually declining, at least partly because adults have exerted ever-increasing control over children's activities,"
  • It provides critical life experiences without which young children cannot develop into confident and competent adults.
  • Gray sees the loss of play time as a double whammy: we have not only taken away the joys of free play, we have replaced them with emotionally stressful activities. "[A]s a society, we have come to the conclusion that to protect children from danger and to educate them, we must deprive them of the very activity that makes them happiest and place them for ever more hours in settings where they are more or less continually directed and evaluated by adults, setting almost designed to produce anxiety and depression."
Irina Marchenko

Child internet safety - Department of Education - 0 views

www.education.gov.uk/...child-internet-safety

Internet Safety Kids Protection

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  • Irina Marchenko on 06 Aug 13
     
    Children learn about internet safety in school, as it is taught as part of the National Curriculum, and Safer Internet Day is widely promoted in February each year. In addition, the Government has pressed for progress through the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS). UKCCIS is a group of more than 200 organisations across the government, industry, law enforcement, academia and charity sectors, who work in partnership to help keep children safe online. The UKCCIS board is chaired by ministers. UKCCIS achievements include the creation of:
Maria Gurova

Instagram to ramp up efforts to lure small businesses - FT.com - 1 views

www.ft.com/...44-11e5-846f-79b0e3d20eaf.html

Social Media social networks Economy monetization ad market maker movement entrepreneurship digital advertising one-click purchase buy now micro-moments Hyper Consumerism accessibility big data manipulation Technology advertising to kids

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  • When we launched ads two years ago, ads were available in just eight countries. In September, we opened for business in around 200 countries
  • Facebook’s global sales team was beginning to push Instagram’s advertising to small businesses, providing them with the ability to target marketing at particular users
  • that international expansion was a priority, with 75 per cent of its more than 400m users based outside the US
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  • it has said that its second-largest market outside its home country is Brazil, where it has about 29m users. On Monday, it announced that it has 9m users in Germany and has previously said that it has more than 14m users in the UK
  • Analysts only just started releasing their estimates last year, suggesting the app could generate between $1.2bn and $2bn in sales in 2016
  • Instagram’s monthly active user base could reach up to 520m by the end of 2016.
  • Instagram launched an advertising format that allowed marketers to include links to their products and websites. The so-called “carousel adverts” allow a brand to display several images at once and use a “learn more” button to lead consumers to its own sit
  • the company had no immediate plans to introduce a “Buy” button, similar to the one that Facebook has been trialling. Retailers want the group to introduce functions that will allow users to purchase products seen through the app
  • Instagram is attractive to advertisers partly because of its popularity with hard-to-reach teenagers.
  • A lobbying push by big technology groups, including Facebook, helped to water down the proposed ban. National governments will now be able to reduce the age at which personal data may be used to 13
  • Maria Gurova on 08 Feb 16
     
    Instagram is now focusing on leveraging more of the parent company resources to increase app's monetization through ad sales. Therefore making their ad features available on the international markets and focusing on the smaller companies and entrepreneurs 
alexbelov

Ending patent wars will be a huge boon to the tech industry | TechCrunch - 0 views

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Technology patents law science Economy

shared by alexbelov on 11 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Because of these patent wars and patent trolls, technology companies are divesting huge resources to defend themselves rather than advancing their innovations. This is the equivalent of nuclear arms race and is a lose-lose situation.
  • do we even need patents in an era in which technology is advancing so rapidly that it makes entire computing platforms obsolete in less time than it takes to be awarded a patent?
  • This happens in the pharmaceutical industry when a company is allowed to exclude competitors for a fixed period of time to recoup its sizable investment in research.
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  • However, if a patent isn’t helping innovation get to consumers, it is not helping society.
  • it is clear that patents are not fulfilling the purpose for which they were intended. The often-cited defense ofpatents, that patent rights encourage inventions that would not otherwise occur, is no longer grounded in reality.
  • In this era of exponentially advancing technologies, the only protections that really matter are speed to market and technological obsolescence. The underlying technologies are changing so fast, that by a time a patent is filed, it loses its innovation value.
  • alexbelov on 11 Mar 16
     
    Patents are no longer serving society needs. Today they hinder the progress. Chances are that patents are going to be abolished or will take some different form.
Maria Gurova

Italian courts order ISPs to block isoHunt - 1 views

www.futureofcopyright.com/...r-isps-to-block-isohunt-1.html

Political legal copyright anti-piracy Italy

shared by Maria Gurova on 06 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • FIMI successfully lodged the complaint stating that isoHunt, which provides access to and sharing of illegal copies of copyright protected content, costs the Italian music industry millions of euros.
  • Earlier this year, the Rome court ordered to block domains of 27 torrent websites.
  • The growth of blocking orders seems to be a result of the struggle against online copyright infringements through torrent websites. Opponents of website-blocks argue that blocking access to torrent sharing websites is ineffective.
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