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Natali Helberger receives NWO funding for research project on microtargeting

The Pegasus Hack: A Hark Back to the Wassenaar Arrangement

By Sharngan Aravindakshan The world’s most popular messaging application, Whatsapp, recently revealed that a significant number of Indians were among the targets of Pegasus, a sophisticated spyware that operates by exploiting a vulnerability in Whatsapp’s video-calling feature. It has also come to light that Whatsapp, working with the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, an academic research organization […]

Enrollment to the CopyrightX - Turin University Affiliate Course 2020 Now Open!

Page Type: newsCopyrightX is a course on Copyright Law, developed by Professor William Fisher III at Harvard Law School and first offered online in the spring semester of 2013, under the auspices of the HarvardX distance-learning initiative, and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.
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Imagination becomes reality in the winners of the 2019 Wiki Loves Earth photo contest

The child of a monkey holds on to its mother tightly. A lone straw bale stands in a field prior to being collected. A few rays of sunlight filter into a dark, foreboding cave filled with clear blue water.

Online content regulation in Brazil faces risk of setback

In Brazil, the operative intermediary liability system risks being invalidated, as the country’s Supreme Court should rule on its constitutionality this week. Associated HIIG researcher Clara Iglesias Keller argues that, regardless of the limits of the elected court centric approach, this could be a setback for the national online content regulation framework. This week, the…

Public Lecture on Contemporary China’s Intellectual Property Reform and Development: Theory and Practices

2019年11月29日,由北京师范大学互联网政策与法律研究中心主办的学术前沿系列讲座”当前中国知识产权制度变革与发展走向:理论解读与实践透视”于北师大后主楼1922会议室举办。中国政法大学教授、博士生导师、知识产权法研究所所长及知识产权法国家重点学科负责人、中国政法大学无形资产管理研究中心主任冯晓青教授为主讲人,薛虹教授担任本次讲座的主持人、评议人。由于讲座以中文进行,薛虹教授为参加本次讲座的外国留学生将全部内容翻译为英文。来自北京师范大学的法律硕士、法学硕士、来自法国、意大利、波兰、苏里南、科特迪瓦的外国留学生、交换生参加了讲座。

Capitalism is religion

Just check out its core philosophy, with its core terms in bold wording:

The invisible hand of the free market governs everything and the hardworking get prosperous while the lazy suffer poverty.

Sounds pretty familiar and very rational, doesn’t it…

But check it out again with the religious equivalents of the core terms replaced in:

Lena Schlegel received the Sustainability Award (LINK) of the University

In her interdisciplinary work, she deconstructed the EU´s energy policy which falls short behind its self-declared goals of decarbonisation and commitment to climate protection from a critical posthumanist theoretical perspective. Lena Schlegel argues in her work, that a problematic ontological distinction of the human from nature is underlying the efforts to transform energy systems, thereby hindering deep transformation and reinforcing institutional path dependencies and prevailing power relations.

Legal Text Analysis using AI | Chapter 1

CONFÉRENCE EN ANGLAIS SEULEMENT

Text and language are the core tools of the legal profession. Analyzing and understanding the information contained in textual documents, such as statutes, case law, contracts and doctrine, is one of the most important skill for any person in the legal field. Advances in artificial intelligence suggest computers may be able to support humans in this area, or even perform some tasks autonomously.

Lumen Prize for Polish OD&M Training

LUMEN – Leaders in University Management is an annual Conference and Competition for all Polish Universities.

Proposals to regulate social media run into multiple roadblocks

The Cambridge Analytica scandal, the Pegasus spyware attack on WhatsApp and the growing misuse of social media platforms to spread misinformation have made governments world over, including in India, realise the limitations of existing laws in dealing with the misuse of these platforms.
The article by Saumya Tewari and Abhijit Ahaskar was published by Livemint on November 27, 2019. Gurshabad Grover was quoted.

Wim Nijenhuis on Making: The Mystery of the Non-Finito

The Mystery of the Non-Finito, or Making Does Not Produce Artefacts by Wim Nijenhuis
Text of the speech at the book launch of the INC Critical Makers Readers, Theatrum Anatomicum, Waag, Amsterdam, November 21, 2019

Open Knowledge Foundation CEO Catherine Stihler awarded OBE

Our chief executive Catherine Stihler has been awarded an OBE by Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge.
She was recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her service to politics.
Yesterday, Catherine took part in the investiture at Buckingham Palace, watched on by her proud family.
Catherine said: “It was an immense honour to receive this recognition and be awarded an OBE by Prince William.

New Report: ”Analyzing Freedom of Expression in Lebanon in 2018”

Over the past four years, Lebanon has witnessed a crackdown against freedom of expression online. The state has penalized citizens, journalists, and civil society representatives who criticize government officials or mock religious figures, worsening the overall environment for free speech online. In our newest report, “Analyzing Freedom of Expression Online[...]

New Report: ”Analyzing Freedom of Expression in Lebanon in 2018”

Over the past four years, Lebanon has witnessed a crackdown against freedom of expression online. The state has penalized citizens, journalists, and civil society representatives who criticize government officials or mock religious figures, worsening the overall environment for free speech online. In our newest report, “Analyzing Freedom of Expression Online[...]

New Report: ”Analyzing Freedom of Expression in Lebanon in 2018”

Over the past four years, Lebanon has witnessed a crackdown against freedom of expression online. The state has penalized citizens, journalists, and civil society representatives who criticize government officials or mock religious figures, worsening the overall environment for free speech online.

Bread&Net 2019: A Digital Rights Revolution

From November 15 to 17, more than 250 participants gathered for Bread&Net 2019 in the heart of Beirut. With the ongoing Lebanese revolution, this was a special year for our regional digital rights unconference. The political situation was a major focus, from a topic of discussion during various panels to[...]

Bread&Net 2019: A Digital Rights Revolution

From November 15 to 17, more than 250 participants gathered for Bread&Net 2019 in the heart of Beirut. With the ongoing Lebanese revolution, this was a special year for our regional digital rights unconference. The political situation was a major focus, from a topic of discussion during various panels to[...]

Toward Data-Intensive Open Science: EU Open Access Envoy Jean-Claude Burgelman Reflects on the Open Science Movement

This article was originally published  on November 25, 2019 in Data & Policy, the peer-reviewed, open access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges, by Andrew J. Zahuranec and Stefaan Verhulst

reCreating Europe: Rethinking digital copyright law for a culturally diverse, accessible, creative Europe