Sharing Sharing Sharing opening new paragraph Copyright su internet, quel comma
che ha fatto infuriare la blogosfera
Folena spiega: "E' un equivoco. E' il primo spazio online libero
from the shackles of the old copyright law. "And someone has second thoughts
ALESSANDRO LONGO
You have changed the law on copyright, at the end of December, with the 'addition of a paragraph specifically for the Internet: the aim is to improve the dissemination of culture online. A small step to adapt the antiquated law on copyright to the reality of the web.
We know that the first paragraph of the existing , Article 70 of the Copyright Act allows only quote parts of the work covered by copyright for the purpose of comment. È un articolo molto stringente, che si adatta alla realtà della carta stampata; ma, come ha spiegato Pietro Folena, presidente della Commissione Cultura alla Camera (che ha elaborato la modifica), è obsoleto ai tempi di internet, alla luce cioè delle esigenze di fare divulgazione e cultura da parte di enciclopedie libere come Wikipedia e dei blog. Il nuovo comma aggiunge quindi una possibilità: la pubblicazione dell'intera opera, purché si tratti di musiche o immagini "a bassa risoluzione o degradate" e lo scopo sia "per uso didattico o scientifico", comunque senza lucro.
Da qui sono scoppiate polemiche, capeggiate dall'ormai onnipresente Beppe Grillo, tramite il proprio blog e si sono moltiplicate forums and blogs, as well as some critical legal experts in the internet, as Manlio Cammarata. All against the clause requiring publication in a degraded quality: according to them, this means limiting the possibilities of online publishing. In short, just the opposite in the new paragraph, as was quick to explain Folena, in a statement in which he comments.
According Folena then there was a misunderstanding, because images and music quality degraded simply means "not a quality comparable to that of a CD, but still listenable. O sized image not useful for print reproduction (Then almost all the images on the web), "said Folena.
" We wanted this paragraph-add-first to create a space online from the shackles of the old copyright law. We have done taking into account the thousands of teachers who have received fines and injunctions, the SIAE, for publishing works for educational use on their sites. Thanks to this new paragraph will do so without risking anything. "Under the new paragraph, then it will be a decree (the future) the Minister for Heritage and cultural activities to establish in particular what criteria you define a work degraded.
The controversy, after this clarification, in fact, are already deflating. Daniele Minotti, lawyer of the top experts in law and new technologies, acknowledges on his blog
Folena that is right, and that "a step forward, even in the compromise, there is. I think it's out of the question and sorry for the presumption "he writes.
work to do on the front of the popularization of the Internet culture, is still a lot. On the internet going crazy for months, the polemics against the Urbani Decree (wanted by the previous government and still in force), which among other things prevents sites to publish images of works featured in Italian museums. Wikipedia was then forced to remove them from your own site. In this regard, against this state of affairs, there in October was a Parliamentary Socialist Franco Grillini, the Minister of Culture. "In 2008 also modify this flaw: we're going to start the process", announced by Folena
Repubblica.it .
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January 11, 2008 )
