Category: Internet

Journalism, media and technology predictions 2016 | Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism

Post author By Alfonso Papa Malatesta
Post date January 12, 2016
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Journalism, media and technology predictions 2016 | Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism
“Robo-journalists, an ongoing battle between publishers and adblockers, bendy smartphones and social media for the workplace; the Reuters Institute launches its new Digital News Project with a set of technology and industry predictions for the global media’s year ahead”.

Robo-journalists, an ongoing battle between publishers and adblockers, bendy smartphones and social media for the workplace; the Reuters Institute launches its new Digital News Project with a set of technology and industry predictions for the global media’s year ahead. – See more at: http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/publication/journalism-media-and-technology-predictions-2016#sthash.iYl1Irhg.dpuf

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Tags Business models, Media, Publishing, Reuters

Case Law Internet Journalism

La Corte di Giustizia sui filmati nei siti dei quotidiani

Post author By Alfonso Papa Malatesta
Post date December 4, 2015
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Corte Giustizia sui filmati nei siti dei quotidiani

“La Corte rileva… che la versione elettronica di un quotidiano, malgrado gli elementi audiovisivi in essa contenuti, non deve essere considerata come un servizio audiovisivo se tali elementi audiovisivi sono meramente incidentali e servono unicamente ad integrare l’offerta degli articoli di stampa scritta”

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Tags Case-law, EU, Publishing

Antitrust Business Models Intellectual Property Internet

European Publishers Play Lobbying Role Against Google – The New York Times

Post author By Alfonso Papa Malatesta
Post date August 28, 2015
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European Publishers Play Lobbying Role Against Google – The New York Times

“The argument is simple enough: Publishers want money from Google,” said Till Kreutzer, a German lawyer who has campaigned against these new copyright proposals. “Many European politicians are open to listening to that type of proposal.”

I wonder if normal people voice will ever be listened at Bruxelles. Commissioners speak a lot with Publishing Industries, will they truly speak to citizens one of these days?

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Tags Business models, Democrazia, Google, Public Sector Information, Publishing

Extra Internet

Reddit unbanned in Russia as it implements localised censorship – Business Insider

Post author By Alfonso Papa Malatesta
Post date August 28, 2015
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Reddit unbanned in Russia as it implements localised censorship – Business Insider

And not just Russia.

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Tags Censorship, Human Rights, Reddit

Internet Privacy

Open Letter to Google From 80 Internet Scholars: Release RTBF Compliance Data — Medium

Post author By Alfonso Papa Malatesta
Post date May 17, 2015
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Open Letter to Google From 80 Internet Scholars: Release RTBF Compliance Data — Medium
“What We Seek
- Aggregate data about how Google is responding to the >250,000 requests to delist links thought to contravene data protection from name search results. We should know if the anecdotal evidence of Google’s process is representative: What sort of information typically gets delisted (e.g., personal health) and what sort typically does not (e.g., about a public figure), in what proportions and in what countries?”

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Tags Data, Democrazia, Google, Oblio, Privacy, Right to be forgotten

Antitrust Internet

European Commission – A Digital Single Market for Europe

Post author By Alfonso Papa Malatesta
Post date May 6, 2015
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European Commission – PRESS RELEASES – Press release – A Digital Single Market for Europe: Commission sets out 16 initiatives to make it happen

” three pillars: (1) better access for consumers and businesses to digital goods and services across Europe; (2) creating the right conditions and a level playing field for digital networks and innovative services to flourish; (3) maximising the growth potential of the digital economy.”
European Commission – PRESS RELEASES – Press release – Antitrust: Commission launches e-commerce sector inquiry

“The sector inquiry will focus particularly on potential barriers erected by companies to cross-border online trade in goods and services where e-commerce is most widespread such as electronics, clothing and shoes, as well as digital content. Knowledge gained through the sector inquiry will contribute to better enforcement of competition law in the e-commerce sector.”

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Tags Agenda digitale, e-commerce, EU

Internet

EC to level Europe’s telecoms playing field | TelecomTV

Post author By Alfonso Papa Malatesta
Post date May 1, 2015
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EC to level Europe’s telecoms playing field | TelecomTV

“Reuters says it’s seen a document that indicates that the European Commission is going to tilt the playing field in favour of European telcos as part of a general overhaul of the Europe’s telecom rules next year.”

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Tags "Net Neutrality", "Telco", EU, OTT

Antitrust Internet

E-Commerce : price fixing via algorithms

Post author By Alfonso Papa Malatesta
Post date April 19, 2015
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Former E-Commerce Executive Charged with Price Fixing in the Antitrust Division’s First Online Marketplace Prosecution | OPA | Department of Justice
“According to the charge, Topkins and his co-conspirators agreed to fix the prices of certain posters sold in the United States through Amazon Marketplace. To implement their agreements, the defendant and his co-conspirators adopted specific pricing algorithms for the sale of certain posters with the goal of coordinating changes to their respective prices and wrote computer code that instructed algorithm-based software to set prices in conformity with this agreement.”

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Tags e-commerce

Internet

Usage illicite du nom de domaine avocat.net – Cyberdroit – Le droit à l’épreuve de l’Internet

Post author By Alfonso Papa Malatesta
Post date February 21, 2015
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Usage illicite du nom de domaine avocat.net – Cyberdroit – Le droit à l’épreuve de l’Internet

” Les juges ont estimé que l’internaute était “fondé à croire que tous les services proposés éman[ai]ent d’avocats, alors même que certaines prestations [étaient] assurées par des personnes qui ne sont pas avocats”.”

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