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​DBS and NT​U team up to train Singapore's next generation of wealth management talent

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Kserokopia # 68 (30 stycznia – 12 lutego)

Najnowszy przegląd linków o prawie autorskim udowadnia, że nie samą reformą prawa autorskiego powinniśmy się interesować. Parlament Europejski podjął kolejne, choć niedostateczne, kroki w celu zniesienia geoblockingu, Komisja Europejska planuje stworzyć listę stron www naruszających prawa własności intelektualnej, a zmiany w dyrektywie o reuse to tylko kwestia czasu. Poza tym prezentujemy ciekawe polskie kazusy prawne – prokuraturę mającą problemy z prawem autorskim oraz spór prawnoautorski wokół zmian na wystawie w Muzeum II Wojny Światowej. Zapraszamy do lektury.

Weekly Research Colloquium in Berlin

CIHR Research Colloquium
Every Thursday, we meet in our Berlin office to discuss research projects from members of the CIHR network – our researchers, fellows and collaborators.
When? Every Thursday
Where? CIHR Berlin office, Werner-Voss Damm 54a, 12101 Berlin
How to participate? Send us an email at ue.rhicnull@eciffo
February 15: The Algorithm as your Boss? with Mirela Ivanova
From 4pm – 6pm

Feasibility Study of Using Crowdsourcing to Identify Critical Affected Areas for Rapid Damage Assessment: Hurricane Matthew Case Study

Paper by Faxi Yuan and Rui Liu at the 

Public Land Value Capture: A new model for housing development in Scotland

Brilliant and practical way of cutting the developers out of lining their pockets once public planning permission is granted. This policy captures what is now unearned income in the hands of private developers for a key public good – to radically increase the affordability of housing. Take a look. Not too complicated. Grounded in Commons sense.

Is this the end of civilisation? We could take a different path

This article from George Monbiot contains a vital insight, to complement our earlier postings on increased corporate functional governance as explained by Frank Pasquale.

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Book by Safiya Umoja Noble: “Run a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why black women are so sassy” or “why black women are so angry” presents a disturbing portrait of black womanhood in modern society.

Mietshäuser Syndikat: the network for sustainable co-housing projects

Here’s the problem: The founders of “Mietshäuser Syndikat” (tenements syndicate), a network of cohousing projects in Germany, observed many self-organized cohousing projects struggle and fail. Some couldn’t overcome the challenges in the critical early phases, in terms of dealing with legal issues, finances, and group dynamics, while others created commercially exploited housing projects against their original intentions.

Dawn of the techlash

Rachel Botsman at the Guardian: “…Once seen as saviours of democracy, those titans are now just as likely to be viewed as threats to truth or, at the very least, impassive billionaires falling down on the job of monitoring their own backyards.

The People’s Right to Know and State Secrecy

Dorota Mokrosinska at the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence: “Among the classic arguments which advocates of open government use to fight government secrecy is the appeal to a “people’s right to know.” I argue that the employment of this idea as a conceptual weapon against state secrecy misfires.

Building a Sustainable Community Network in Sarantaporo Greece

For over a year now we in the Sarantaporo.gr nonprofit organization have been in contact with Internet Society in meetings, over online interactions, and through in-person collaboration with people of the organization who visited our village last summer. From the beginning we saw that Internet Society is an organization which we share a lot of common elements with in terms of vision, and that its network is a natural space for our Community Network to be a part of.

New Think.Coop orientation tool on cooperatives launched

Adding to the body of existing tools and training material on cooperative development, ILO now launches Think.Coop, a new training tool for those interested in cooperation and its benefits for improving businesses of potential members.

Managing Democracy in the Digital Age

Book edited by Julia Schwanholz, Todd Graham and Peter-Tobias Stoll: “In light of the increased utilization of information technologies, such as social media and the ‘Internet of Things,’ this book investigates how this digital transformation process creates new challenges and opportunities for political participation, political election campaigns and political regulation of the Internet.

An Open Letter to the Members of the Massachusetts Legislature Regarding the Adoption of Actuarial Risk Assessment Tools in the Criminal Justice System

Teaser

The following open letter — signed by Harvard and MIT-based faculty, staff, and researchers — is directed to the Massachusetts Legislature to inform its consideration of risk assessment tools as part of ongoing criminal justice reform efforts in the Commonwealth.

Publication Date

9 Feb 2018
External Links: Read the letter on Medium

A Constituição norte-americana é democrática?, com o Prof. Daniel Vargas

A Constituição norte-americana é democrática? A provocante pergunta é título do livro de Robert Dahl que chega ao Brasil por meio FGV Direito Rio e da Editora FGV. A obra do renomado cientista político americano questiona até que ponto a Constituição norte-americana promove metas democráticas e revela os elementos potencialmente antidemocráticos do texto, em vigor desde 1787.
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A Constituição norte-americana é democrática?, com o Prof. Joaquim Falcão

A Constituição norte-americana é democrática? O Dr. Joaquim Falcão, Professor de direito constitucional da FGV Direito Rio, discute a provocante pergunta, que é título do livro de Robert Dahl e que chega ao Brasil por meio da FGV Direito Rio e da Editora FGV. A obra do renomado cientista político americano questiona até que ponto a Constituição norte-americana promove metas democráticas e revela os elementos potencialmente antidemocráticos do texto, em vigor desde 1787.
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"Onze Supremos - O Supremo em 2016" - Felipe Recondo

Felipe Recondo - Sócio-fundador do JOTA, site de informações jurídicas: “Para entender a crise política de 2016 é necessário entender também as atuações e omissões do Supremo, para ver como o supremo atuou como árbitro ou como interferiu na crise.”
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"Onze Supremos - O Supremo em 2016" - Prof. Diego Werneck Arguelhes

Diego Werneck Arguelhes, professor da FGV Direito Rio: “Em 2016, mais do que nunca, o Supremo esteve no centro da vida política nacional.”
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Gleich zwei UKD-Gruppen sind im Düsseldorfer Straßenkarneval mit dabei

Für ihre Karnevals-Premiere hat sich die Augenklinik etwas Besonderes ausgedacht: Lebensgroße Augen werden die Truppe begleiten. Im Rosenmontagszug hat sie die Nummer 18.01 und läuft direkt hinter dem Prunkwagen der „KG vom Niederrhein“.Alte Hasen im Karnevalstreiben sind dagegen die Kollegen der Neurochirurgie: Bereits zum zweiten Mal laufen sie bei einem Düsseldorfer Veedels-Umzug mit.

SC Constitution Bench on Aadhaar – Final Hearing (Day IX)

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]