"Rolf Källman, tillträdande (1 sept.) chef för samordningssekretariatet för digitalisering, talar 34 minuter in i filmen om vikten av öppenhet och frihet, tydlig uppmärkning genom användandet av Creative Commons-licenser, med mera. Detta reformarbete ska
Netherlands Orgnisatio for Scientific Research; NWO, Information and communication Department "Publically financed research must be freely accessible to everybody. Therefore open access publishing must become the norm. NWO is committed to increasing world
Balzac milite aussi pour le respect des écrivains. Dans sa « lettre aux écrivains du xixe siècle », il les exhorte à régner sur l’Europe par la pensée plutôt que par les armes, en leur rappelant que le fruit de leurs écrits rapporte des sommes énormes dont ils ne bénéficient pas. « La loi protège la terre ; elle protège la maison du prolétaire qui a sué ; elle confisque l'ouvrage du poète qui a pensé (…)64. » Il sera finalement entendu. En 1838, avec notamment Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Frédéric Soulié et George Sand, il fonde la Société des gens de lettres (actuellement sise en l’hôtel de Massa, rue Saint-Jacques à Paris), association d’auteurs destinée à défendre le droit moral, les intérêts patrimoniaux et juridiques des auteurs de l’écrit65. Il en deviendra le président en 1839. Son action, raillée par Sainte-Beuve qui ridiculisait « ce compagnonnage ouvrier et ces maréchaux de France de la littérature qui offrent à l’exploitation une certaine surface commerciale66. », aura dans le futur un soutien important : Émile Zola, qui poursuivra la tâche
By Dan Mitchell, Fortune contributor January 12, 2012 Comment: An article about the struggle over SOPA and PIPA between Hollywood and Silicon Walley. Reveals the Goebbelsian dimensions of the agitprop from Hollywood.
Det var ikke noe vanskelig valg, sa juryleder Marianne Aasen under overrekkelsen 6. januar av prisen Årets bibliotek 2011. Hun og flere trakk fram hvordan Helsebiblioteket.no kombinerer god bibliotekånd med avansert IT. Men en forutsetning for topp kvalitet helseinformasjon for alle handler om organisering; om prisvinnerens gjennombrudd i forhandlingene om nasjonale lisenser.
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David Willetts guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 1 May 2012 Wikipedia founder to help in government's research scheme Academic spring campaign aims to make all taxpayer-funded academic research available for free online
Vijay Prasad: " countries like Brazil, India, China, these countries are fighting to bring their own brands to market, to bring their own designs to market, and they are being held back by a global or international intellectual property regime that prevents many of them from pushing their brands forward. I mean, one of the real tricks in the 1980s that they are most upset by was the shift in intellectual property from where you copyright not the process by which you get to, say, a sneaker but the actual sneaker itself. "
1. The term of copyright protection should be reduced. 2. Any change to the scope of copyright protection (including any new definition of protectable subject-matter or expansion of exclusive rights) needs to take into account. 3. When material is deemed to fall in the structural Public Domain in its country of origin, the material should be recognized as part of the structural Public Domain in all other countries of the world. 4. Any false or misleading attempt to misappropriate Public Domain material must be legally punished. 5. No other intellectual property right must be used to reconstitute exclusivity over Public Domain material. 6. There must be a practical and effective path to make available 'orphan works' and published works that are no longer commercially available (such as out-of-print works) for re-use by society. 7. Cultural heritage institutions should take upon themselves a special role in the effective labeling and preserving of Public Domain works. 8. There must be no legal obstacles that prevent the voluntary sharing of works or the dedication of works to the Public Domain. 9. Personal non-commercial uses of protected works must generally be made possible, for which alternative modes of remuneration for the author must be explored.
In sum the draft confirms the will to impose greater regulatory "convergence" and "harmonization" of future regulations between the EU and the US in the only interest of transnational corporations and the financial industry. The vagueness of the draft would allow the Commission great freedom to achieve this. Social, labour and environmental rights in both sides of the Atlantic are under fire.
Thomas Gramstads artikel i Bok og Bibliotek 7.5.2013: "Antallet og omfanget av rettighetene som inngår under Opphavsrett er sterkt økende. Hvorfor følger det ikke noen plikter med disse rettighetene, slik det gjør for alle andre typer rettigheter?"
16 nov 2013 Ambassador Joseph R. DeTrani August 1st--4th, 2013 Rio Hotel & Casino * Las Vegas, Nevada. at ca 15 min. "... cyber is a potential wmd" "...we look to you to help produce more secure systems... and policies ... to disrupt those who seal intellectual property... need you, the good hackers of Def Con" ...".. you have the three branches of government overseeing it [the surveillance] ... it came after after 9/11... when we saw the terrorists coming..." ca 25 min. Q. from the public abt the lies abt wmd in Iraq
EurActiv 10 janvier 2014 Lors d'un débat au Sénat, l'ensemble des partis a émis de vives critiques à l'encontre du Partenariat Transatlantique en négociation avec les Etats-Unis. La ministre en charge du Commerce extérieure, Nicole Bricq, le souligne non sans dépit. C'est surtout en France que l'on constate une mobilisation sur ce que les français appellent le « traité » transatlantique. Chevènement: "On ne peut pas parler de libre-échange lors les parités passent de 1 à 2 entre l'euro et le dollar en l'espace d'une décennie seulement " Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, sénatrice PS: "« Je suis très hostile à ce traité » a d’emblée prévenu l’ex-député européenne. « Force est de constater que la mondialisation heureuse n'a pas eu lieu ! Nous sommes dans une logique où les firmes multinationales ne sont pas dans une situation que nous pouvons réguler a-t-elle indiqué.
Discussions by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) broke down in the early hours of Saturday morning 3 May, after the European Union (EU) attempted to block future discussion of copyright laws to aid libraries and archives fulfill their missions in the digital environment.
Milton Mueller: " The case for freedom of information, I argue, must be grounded in a political commitment to liberalism; i.e., individual freedom of action, not in an ethical obligation to share software or information as such."
Bob Pasnau, University of Colorado (‘In medias’ aspires to assemble in one place the latest information pertaining to scholars of medieval philosophy. This blog will avoid rants and philosophical musings, confining itself itself to news and notes of general interest to medievalists.) on library ebooks from Oxford University Press. copyfight
Kimmo Tuominen, ylikirjastonhoitaja, professori, Helsingin yliopiston kirjasto: "Kiplingin runossa läntinen teesi ja itäinen antiteesi päätyvät veriveljeyden synteesiin. Myös tiedejulkaisemisen käytäntöjen tervehdyttäminen edellyttää kolmatta tietä tieteellisen kommunismin ja kapitalistisen julkaisuteollisuuden välissä. "Teknologisten ja sosiaalisten julkaisuinnovaatioiden lisäksi tarvitsemme etenkin tiedepoliittista kaukonäköisyyttä. Yliopistojen rahoitusmalliratkaisut eivät saa sementoida tiedejulkaisemisen nykymalleja ja pönkittää kohtuuttomasti jo ennestään vahvojen suuryritysten asemaa."
The US House of Representatives has passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act (CISPA) Should CISPA earn the president’s autograph, private businesses will be encouraged to voluntarily share cyberthreat information with the US government. Another lawmaker, Rep. Dan Maffei (D-New York), said CISPA was necessary to protect the US against “independent groups like WikiLeaks,” adding unfounded claims that the whistleblower website is “taking very aggressive measures to hack into” US computer networks.
The naturally occurring gene has been patented by Myriad Genetics and gives them the sole right to test for the gene. Jolie can afford the expensive test, and the resulting surgeries, but most women cannot.
Phillip Dorling, Sidney Morning Herald , Nov 14, : "WikiLeaks has exposed details of secret trade negotiations that could leave Australians paying more for drugs and medicines, movies, computer games and software, and be placed under surveillance as part of a US-led crackdown on internet piracy."
P. Bobade, S. Wadekar, N. Pagare, and K.S.Warke. International Journal of Innovative Science and Modern Engineering (IJISME), 2 (2):
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