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Claude Almansi

Fair Use & Copyright: -- Center for Social Media at American University - 0 views

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    Fair use is the right, in some circumstances, to quote copyrighted material without asking permission or paying for it. Fair use enables the creation of new culture, and keeps current copyright holders from being private censors. With the Washington College of Law, the Center for Social Media creates tools for creators, teachers, and researchers to better use their fair use rights. Explore your fair use rights by clicking on one of the tabs above.
Claude Almansi

Creative Commons wins the 2008 Free Software Foundation Award for Project of Social Ben... - 0 views

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    Creative Commons vice president Mike Linksvayer accepted the award saying, "It's an incredible honor. Creative Commons should be giving an award to the Free Software Foundation and Richard Stallman, because what Creative Commons is doing would not be possible without them."
Claude Almansi

Labs CC: Flickr: Creative Commons (stats) - 0 views

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    Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.
Claude Almansi

[A2k] The National Federation of the Blind Statement re Authors Guild's claim re Kindle... - 0 views

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    The blind and other readers have the right for books to be presented to us in the format that is most useful to us, and we are not violating copyright law as long as we use readers, either human or machine, for private rather than public listening.
Claude Almansi

[project 21] - Studentische Organisation für nachhaltige Entwicklung - Creati... - 0 views

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    Creative Commons, Open Access, OpenStreetMap? In einer Veranstaltungsreihe im bQm werden Projekte und Initiativen aus dem Bereich der freien Inhalte in gemütlicher Atmosphäre vorgestellt. Creative Commons und FreeBeer - Dienstag, 29. September Was steckt hinter "some rights reserved" und was bringt es? Creative Commons kurz erklärt. Mit FreeBeer wird ein ungewöhnliches Creative Commons Projekt vorgestellt. Von Melanie Bosshart, Digitale Allmend und Pascal Mages, FreeBeer/[project 21]. Open Access - wissenschaftliche Texte und Bilder im Internet - Dienstag, 6. Oktober Worum geht es bei Open Access, wie und warum publiziert eigene Arbeiten man Open Access? Die ETH Bibliothek zeigt verschiedene Wege. Von Arlette Piguet und Nicole Graf, ETH-Bibliothek. OpenStreetMap - die freie Landkarte und Geodatenbank - Dienstag, 13. Oktober Warum OpenStreetMapper mit GPS Empfängern durch die Gegend laufen und die Weltkarte neu zeichnen. Vom Adreas Brauchli, OpenStreetMap. Live Konzert mit restorm.com - Donnerstag, 15. Oktober Du bestimmst wer im bQm rockt! Jetzt probehören und abstimmen auf restorm.com. Die Musik steht natürlich unter einer Creative Commons Lizenz. Beginn 18 Uhr. Die Kurzvorträge beginnen jeweils um 17.15 Uhr. Danach DJ-Set mit Creative Commons lizenzierter Musik.
Claude Almansi

Schneier on Security: Building in Surveillance - August 3, 2009 - 0 views

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    Official misuses are bad enough, but the unofficial uses worry me more. Any surveillance and control system must itself be secured. An infrastructure conducive to surveillance and control invites surveillance and control, both by the people you expect and by the people you don't. (...) But that's not the most serious misuse of a telecommunications surveillance infrastructure. In Greece, between June 2004 and March 2005, someone wiretapped more than 100 cell phones belonging to members of the Greek government -- the prime minister and the ministers of defense, foreign affairs and justice. Ericsson built this wiretapping capability into Vodafone's products, and enabled it only for governments that requested it. Greece wasn't one of those governments, but someone still unknown -- a rival political party? organized crime? -- figured out how to surreptitiously turn the feature on
Claude Almansi

The American Textbook Accessibility Act | Christopher Dawson July 28 09 | ZDNet.com - 0 views

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    I'm working on a story to actually assess the state of development among big-name textbook publishers and will have more soon on that. For right now, though, it's quite clear that we have a very long ways to go. While a lack of content is a major issue, perhaps a bigger issue is the lack of standards via which the content can be disseminated. Obviously, DRM is a serious problem for textbooks. Copyright aside, though, there are currently around 30 formats in which e-books are published. If you're Pearson, into which basket will you be throwing all of your eggs? Frankly, there is only one that I see that makes a lot of sense right now. EPUB, developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum, is open, XML-based, and can grow as our needs increase. Even this format, though, needs traction with major publishers.
Claude Almansi

anti-virus rants - 0 views

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    devising a framework for thinking about malware and related issues such as viruses, spyware, worms, rootkits, drm, trojans, botnets, keyloggers, droppers, downloaders, rats, adware, spam, stealth, fud, snake oil, and hype...
Claude Almansi

Main Page - Google Books Settlement Open Workshop - An Open Workshop at Harvard Law School - 0 views

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    The proposed Google Book Search settlement creates the opportunity for unprecedented access by the public, scholars, libraries and others to a digital library containing millions of books assembled by major research libraries. But the settlement is controversial, in large part because this access is limited in major ways: instead of being truly open, this new digital library will be controlled by a single company, Google, and a newly created Book Rights Registry consisting of representatives of authors and publishers; it will include millions of so-called "orphan works" that cannot legally be included in any competing digitization and access effort, and it will be available to readers only in the United States. It need not have been this way.
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    The proposed Google Book Search settlement creates the opportunity for unprecedented access by the public, scholars, libraries and others to a digital library containing millions of books assembled by major research libraries. But the settlement is controversial, in large part because this access is limited in major ways: instead of being truly open, this new digital library will be controlled by a single company, Google, and a newly created Book Rights Registry consisting of representatives of authors and publishers; it will include millions of so-called "orphan works" that cannot legally be included in any competing digitization and access effort, and it will be available to readers only in the United States. It need not have been this way.
Claude Almansi

The Public Index - New York Law School on Google Settlement - 0 views

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    Welcome to the Public Index, a site to study and discuss the proposed Google Book Search settlement. Here, you can browse and annotate the proposed settlement, section-by-section. Just use the table of contents or the search box at the right to get started. In addition, you can: * Study our reading room of lawsuit documents * Join the conversation in our forums * Draft an amicus brief to the court on the wiki
Claude Almansi

EPIC - Google Books Settlement and Privacy (and other issues) - 0 views

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    In 2005, the Authors Guild filed a lawsuit against Google arising from the Google Books project. In October 2008, the parties announced a proposed settlement. Academics and rightsholders have criticized the Settlement terms on grounds ranging from antitrust to privacy. The Settlement sets forth non-privacy terms, including provisions regarding royalties and book advertising, in great detail. However, it does not contain meaningful privacy protections for readers or authors. Various entities and individuals have filed comments, objections, and amicus curiae briefs concerning the proposed settlement.
Claude Almansi

CC Monitor - 0 views

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    This is the home of the CC-Monitor online platform, which contains automatically collected data, graphs, research and collectively written commentary on the global adoption of Creative Commons licenses.
Claude Almansi

Provedimento dell'Antitrust sull'istruttoria FIEG v Google IT. Sept 4, 09 (PDF) - 0 views

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    L'AUTORITÀ GARANTE DELLA CONCORRENZA E DEL MERCATO NELLA SUA ADUNANZA del 26 agosto 2009 (...) DELIBERA a) l'avvio dell'istruttoria ai sensi dell'art. 14, della legge n. 287/90, nei confronti di Google Italy S.r.l., per accertare l'esistenza di violazioni dell'art. 82, del Trattato CE; b) la fissazione del termine di giorni trenta decorrenti dalla notificazione del presente provvedimento per l'esercizio da parte dei legali rappresentanti delle parti del diritto di essere sentiti, precisando che la richiesta di audizione dovrà pervenire alla Direzione Comunicazioni della Direzione Generale per la Concorrenza di questa Autorità almeno quindici giorni prima della scadenza del termine sopra indicato; c) che il responsabile del procedimento è il Dott. Antonio Buttà; d) che gli atti del procedimento possono essere presi in visione presso la Direzione Comunicazioni della Direzione Generale per la Concorrenza di questa Autorità dai rappresentanti legali delle parti, nonché da persona da essi delegata; e) che il procedimento deve concludersi entro il 15 ottobre 2010. Il presente provvedimento verrà notificato ai soggetti interessati e pubblicato nel Bollettino dell'Autorità garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato. IL SEGRETARIO GENERALE Luigi Fiorentino IL PRESIDENTE Antonio Catricalà
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    L'AUTORITÀ GARANTE DELLA CONCORRENZA E DEL MERCATO NELLA SUA ADUNANZA del 26 agosto 2009 (...) DELIBERA a) l'avvio dell'istruttoria ai sensi dell'art. 14, della legge n. 287/90, nei confronti di Google Italy S.r.l., per accertare l'esistenza di violazioni dell'art. 82, del Trattato CE; b) la fissazione del termine di giorni trenta decorrenti dalla notificazione del presente provvedimento per l'esercizio da parte dei legali rappresentanti delle parti del diritto di essere sentiti, precisando che la richiesta di audizione dovrà pervenire alla Direzione Comunicazioni della Direzione Generale per la Concorrenza di questa Autorità almeno quindici giorni prima della scadenza del termine sopra indicato; c) che il responsabile del procedimento è il Dott. Antonio Buttà; d) che gli atti del procedimento possono essere presi in visione presso la Direzione Comunicazioni della Direzione Generale per la Concorrenza di questa Autorità dai rappresentanti legali delle parti, nonché da persona da essi delegata; e) che il procedimento deve concludersi entro il 15 ottobre 2010. da http://www.agcm.it/agcm_ita/news/news.nsf/Link/D4BE9F12407A0D45C1257627003976C2?OpenDocument Il presente provvedimento verrà notificato ai soggetti interessati e pubblicato nel Bollettino dell'Autorità garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato. IL SEGRETARIO GENERALE Luigi Fiorentino IL PRESIDENTE Antonio Catricalà
Claude Almansi

Almansi: Objections to the Google Book Search Settlement -scribd - 0 views

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    I am putting my letter of objections to the Google Book Search Settlement on SCRIBD as an encouragement to the many authors who are directly hit by this Settlement and don't like it, to also object formally - even though the Settlement is very complex and if they possibly have scarce familiarity with law - like me. Because this is precisely one of the many problems of this Settlement. For explanations on how to object, see FAQ "24. How can I object to the Settlement?" on www.googlebooksettlement.com , the site of the Settlement.
Claude Almansi

Manlio Cammarata - La Federazione degli editori cita Google davanti all'Antitrust - Anc... - 0 views

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    Giornali in crisi. Sempre più giornalisti perdono il lavoro, nessuna prospettiva per i giovani. Si scende in piazza per chiedere libertà di informazione. E gli editori se la prendono con Google, che indirizza i lettori sui loro siti.
Miles Berry

MediaMosa: open source media management software | MediaMosa - 0 views

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    MediaMosa is a Full Featured, Webservice Oriented Media Management and Distribution platform. MediaMosa and VP-Core model MediaMosa is a state-of-the-art, scalable Middleware Media Distribution Platform and facilitates access to, and usage of (shared) storage capacity, metadata databases, transcoding- and streaming servers.
Claude Almansi

DAISY Consortium Releases Obi 1.0 - Open Source Accessible Multimedia Authoring Tool - 0 views

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    Obi, an open source audio recording tool released by the DAISY Consortium, enables a broader audience to produce accessible, navigable information for people with print disabilities. DAISY audio books created with Obi can be produced with chapters, sections, sub-sections and pages, providing navigation to the content. Obi is fully accessible through assistive technologies such as screen readers. In addition, Obi reduces the time required to work with sophisticated production tools and significantly reduces tool costs that may create barriers for some.
Claude Almansi

[SIAE] 07-Apr-2009 Pubblicato nella G.U. il Regolamento: Obbligatorio il bollino Siae - 0 views

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    E' stato pubblicato, nella Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 80 del 6 aprile 2009, il Decreto del Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri 23 febbraio 2009, n.31 che stabilisce l'obbligatorietà del contrassegno Siae da apporre sui supporti fono-videografici, multimediali e su quelli contenenti programmi per elaboratore, come previsto dall'articolo 181bis della legge sul diritto d'autore n.633/41.
Claude Almansi

UNA SENTENZA CHE "ODORA DI VITTORIA" -- Bollino SIAE -- Unione Sindacale Italiana Video... - 0 views

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    Parafrasando una frase del Colonnello Kilgore (Apocalypse Now) sono estremamente felice di apprendere che la Corte di Cassazione, così come testualmente si legge nel comunicato stampa dello Studio Legale Sirotti Gaudenzi "ha posto la nota sentenza "Schwibbert" (emessa dalla Corte di Giustizia delle Comunità' europee, in data 8 novembre 2007) a fondamento del principio in base al quale sono inapplicabili le norme penali che prevedono l'obbligatorietà' del "bollino" SIAE". In parole povere il famigerato bollino ha esalato gli ultimi respiri ed è passato a migliore vita. Diamogli degna sepoltura senza neppure spargere una lacrima.
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    Parafrasando una frase del Colonnello Kilgore (Apocalypse Now) sono estremamente felice di apprendere che la Corte di Cassazione, così come testualmente si legge nel comunicato stampa dello Studio Legale Sirotti Gaudenzi "ha posto la nota sentenza "Schwibbert" (emessa dalla Corte di Giustizia delle Comunità' europee, in data 8 novembre 2007) a fondamento del principio in base al quale sono inapplicabili le norme penali che prevedono l'obbligatorietà' del "bollino" SIAE". In parole povere il famigerato bollino ha esalato gli ultimi respiri ed è passato a migliore vita. Diamogli degna sepoltura senza neppure spargere una lacrima.
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