[from the have-fun-with-it dept Ok. I'll be the first to admit that I've taken the long way around in going through my series of posts exploring the economics of goods when scarcity is removed. What I had thought would be a series of 5 or 6 posts, turned into something much longer -- but each week people came up with new questions or discussions or objections, and so I tried to spend some time digging down on various pieces of the economics at hand.]

"Recent revelations of the National Security Agency's (NSA) data mining capabilities have come to the forefront recently, making "big data" a new subject of interest and concern for many people."

[A link is a URL, a fact not unlike a street address, and is therefore not copyrightable. However, a list may be copyrightable under a compilation copyright if it contains some originality. An example of a list of facts that lacks the requisite originality is a telephone book. ...]

[El jueves 20 de junio de 2013, a las 19h., en el Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Plaza Marina Española 9 tendrá lugar el acto de presentación del libro Libertad de expresión e información Amenazas y protección de los derechos personales codirigido por Loreto Corredoira y Lorenzo Cotino, libro en el que se reúnen aportaciones de más de 20 académicos europeos y americanos. Muchos de los trabajos proceden del último congreso de la Red www.derechotics.com el pasado octubre.]

[ Currently the EU is negotiating about new data privacy laws. This new EU Regulation will replace all existing national laws on data privacy. Here you can see a general overview which Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are pushing for more or less data privacy. Choose a country, a political group or a MEP from the "Top 10" list to find out more. ...]

[Ayer se conocía el borrador del Código Procesal Penal, que permite a las fuerzas y cuerpos de seguridad del Estado usar troyanos para acceder a los datos en los equipos investigados. Pero empecemos desde el principio: ¿qué es realmente un troyano? ¿Qué puede hacer en un ordenador? Los troyanos son un tipo de malware...]

Internet Governance Forum Spain 2013 Live streaming now

The Future is Open... and Free. ✌☺

[Earlier this month Finland's largest ever Internet piracy case ended with four men being found guilty of copyright infringement and two being exonerated. The case involved a so-called 'topsite' called Angel Falls and had an interesting twist. During the trial it was revealed that evidence gathered by a local anti-piracy group and the IFPI was also handed to a "senior MPAA executive" who tampered with the evidence before handing it to the police. ...]

[ By Melissa Riofrio, PC World | Security, CISPA, privacy April 25, 2013, 12:16 PM - Cybersecurity and online privacy are two critical interests that seem destined never to get along. Sure, you want malicious hackers, spammers, and other Internet lowlifes brought to justice--but you also want to protect your online data. ...]

[Como bloggers y gestores de información digital, seguro que os habréis preguntado en más de una ocasión si el uso que hacéis de las imágenes que ilustran vuestros posts es el correcto o no. ¿Cómo sabemos qué imágenes podemos usar en nuestro blog personal o en la web de la biblioteca en la que trabajamos? ...]

Rethinking Authors' Rights in The Interconnected W@rld...

[ Innovate in Your Network OpenFlow enables networks to evolve, by giving a remote controller the power to modify the behavior of network devices, through a well-defined "forwarding instruction set". The growing OpenFlow ecosystem now includes routers, switches, virtual switches, and access points from a range of vendors. Learn More Develop Participate The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is now the home of the OpenFlow specification. We invite you to join the ONF and be part of the exciting standardization and commercial development and deployment of OpenFlow. ...]