Foundation for a Free
Information Infrastructure http://www.ffii.org/ http://noepatents.org/GRASSROOT ASSOCIATIONS
Di seguito sono presentatate associazioni della societa’ civile che affrontano uno o piu’ aspetti dei temi dei “diritti di proprieta’ intellettuale”, privacy, diritti civili sulla rete, privatizzazione della conoscenza e dei beni comuni, etc… La descrizione e’ in lingua inglese:
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Here is a list of worldwide grass-root associations, wich address some of the facets of the issues of IPRs, privacy, cyberights, commons, privatization of knowledge, etc…… |
Foundation for a Free
Information Infrastructure http://www.ffii.org/ http://noepatents.org/The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) is a non-profit association registered in Munich, which is dedicated to the spread of data processing literacy. FFII supports the development of public information goods based on copyright, free competition, open standards. More than 300 members, 700 companies and 50,000 supporters have entrusted the FFII to act as their voice in public policy questions in the area of exclusion rights (intellectual property) in data processing.
http://www.publicknowledge.org/
Public Knowledge is a new public-interest advocacy organization dedicated to fortifying and defending a vibrant information commons. This Washington, D.C. based group works with wide spectrum of stakeholders—libraries, educators, scientists, artists, musicians, journalists, consumers, software programmers, civic groups and enlightened businesses—to promote the core conviction that some fundamental democratic principles and cultural values—openness, access, and the capacity to create and compete—must be given new embodiment in the digital age.
Public Knowledge will seek to fulfill four broad goals: * Ensuring that U.S. intellectual property law and policy reflect the "cultural bargain" intended by the framers of the constitution: providing an incentive to creators and innovators while benefiting the public through the free flow of information and ideas. * Preserving an Internet that is built upon open standards and protocols and "end-to-end" architecture, thereby fostering innovation and user control. * Protecting consumers of digital technology from market practices designed to erode competition, choice and fairness. * Ensuring that international intellectual property policies are adopted through democratic processes and with public interest participation.If America's founding fathers had anticipated the digital frontier, there would be a clause in the Constitution protecting your rights online, as well.
Instead, a modern group of freedom fighters was necessary to extend the original vision into the digital world. That's where the Electronic Frontier Foundation comes in. Just as Patriots fought for liberty and freedom, we fight measures that threaten basic human rights. Only the dominion we defend is the vast wealth of digital information, innovation, and technology that resides online. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a group of passionate people — lawyers, volunteers, and visionaries — working in the trenches, battling to protect your rights and the rights of web surfers everywhere. The dedicated people of EFF challenge legislation that threatens to put a price on what is invaluable; to control what must remain boundless. Electronic Frontier Foundation: Because being able to share ideas and information is the reason the Web was created in the first place!
and Public Domain Enhancement
Act http://eldred.cc/
This site serves as the focal point for information about the campaign to
restore balance to copyright laws by expanding the public domain. Founded as
part of Eldred v. Ashcroft, the legal action to overturn the Copyright Term
Extension Act (Phase I), it now houses all the documents from that case, as
well as new and up-to-date information about advocacy efforts to reclaim the
public domain through legislation.
http://creativecommons.org/
"Some Rights Reserved": Building a Layer of Reasonable Copyright
Too often the debate over creative control tends to the extremes. At one pole
is a vision of total control — a world in which every last use of a work
is regulated and in which "all rights reserved" (and then some) is
the norm. At the other end is a vision of anarchy — a world in which creators
enjoy a wide range of freedom but are left vulnerable to exploitation.
Balance, compromise, and moderation — once the driving forces of a copyright
system that valued innovation and protection equally — have become endangered
species.
Creative Commons was founded in 2001 with the generous support of the Center
for the Public Domain. It is led by a Board of Directors that includes cyberlaw
and intellectual property experts James Boyle, Michael Carroll, Molly Shaffer
Van Houweling, and Lawrence Lessig, MIT computer science professor Hal Abelson,
lawyer-turned-documentary filmmaker-turned-cyberlaw expert Eric Saltzman, renowned
documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, noted Japanese entrepreneur Joi Ito,
and public domain web publisher Eric Eldred.
Fellows and students at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard
Law School helped get the project off the ground. Creative Commons is now housed
at and receives generous support from Stanford Law School, where Creative Commons
shares space, staff, and inspiration with the Stanford Law School Center for
Internet and Society. The Board oversees a small administrative staff and technical
team, and is advised by a Technical Advisory Board. Creative Commons is sustained
by the contributions of a growing group of supporters.
Il progetto
Winston Smith - scolleghiamo il grande fratello -
http://e-privacy.firenze.linux.it/pws/index.html
Winston Smith è il protagonista di "1984", il celeberrimo romanzo di George Orwell; alla fine del romanzo, Winston Smith soccombe al sistema del Grande Fratello.
I partecipanti al progetto sostengono che:
nel Terzo Millennio, il Grande Fratello si è già materializzato, passando dalla carta stampata di un romanzo al mondo reale, e sta crescendo giorno dopo giorno; questo avviene tra l'indifferenza generale, ed addirittura con il consenso di molti.
Per nostra fortuna non siamo nella situazione di Winston Smith, che si
trova a lottare con un "Sistema" già consolidato; nel nostro
mondo c'è ancora la possibilità di agire per impedirne la nascita.
E allora cosa fare? Noi riteniamo che il tentativo di diffondere direttamente
verso gli utenti finali l'utilizzo delle risorse per la protezione della privacy
sia già fallito, e che, nella situazione attuale di globalizzazione,
non possa avere nessuna efficacia pratica.
È necessario perciò cercare un effetto moltiplicatore, in modo
da consentire di raggiungere indirettamente una parte significativa delle persone
che interagiscono con e nella Rete.
Il Progetto Winston Smith si propone di facilitare la creazione di "fornitori
di servizi per la privacy", mettendo a disposizione il know-how e la documentazione
necessaria alla rapida ed economica creazione di server pubblici per la privacy.
Swarthmore
Coalition for the Digital Commons http://scdc.sccs.swarthmore.edu/
The Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons was the first student organization to emerge in the growing free culture movement that we are building at FreeCulture.org. It is dedicated to promoting a bottom-up, participatory structure to society and culture, maintaining a free flow of information, and resisting the recent radical expansion of intellectual property law (as exemplified by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act).
IP
Justice http://www.ipjustice.org/
IP Justice is a grass-roots membership based civil liberties organization
that promotes balanced intellectual property law. IP Justice defends consumer
rights to use digital media worldwide and is registered California non-profit
organization.
IP Justice’s mission is to:
foundation
for information policy research http://www.fipr.org/index.html
The Foundation for Information Policy Research is an independent body that studies the interaction between information technology and society. Its goal is to identify technical developments with significant social impact, commission and undertake research into public policy alternatives, and promote public understanding and dialogue between technologists and policy-makers in the UK and Europe.
The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is the leading think tank for Internet policy in Britain. It studies the interaction between IT, Government, business and civil society. It researches policy implications and alternatives, and promotes better understanding and dialogue between business, Government and NGOs across Europe.
To further these objectives, the foundation's current approach is to:
The Foundation for Information Policy Research is a non-profit organisation established in May 1998.
Indymedia
Italia Informazioni
in categoria diritti digitali http://italy.indymedia.org/features/cyber/
Indymedia e' un network di media gestiti collettivamente per una narrazione radicale, obiettiva e appassionata della verita'. Ci impegniamo con amore e ispirazione per tutte quelle persone che lavorano per un mondo migliore, a dispetto delle distorsioni dei media che con riluttanza si impegnano a raccontare gli sforzi dell'umanita' libera" (dalla presentatione americana).Indymedia ha rappresentato una rottura nel mediascape nord-americano ed ora si appresta a fare lo stesso anche in Italia, ultimo nodo ad aggiungersi al suo network internazionale. Nato per esigenze di copertura mediatica di un evento che i media rischiavano di deformare, le proteste di Seattle contro il WTO, Indymedia ha dimostrato possibile grazie a internet la creazione di mass media dal basso, autogestiti, non-profit e indipendenti dai media istituzionali e commerciali.
Indimedia global network http://www.indymedia.org/
The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets
for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth.
We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a
better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover
the efforts to free humanity.
History
The Independent Media Center, was established by various independent and alternative
media organizations and activists in 1999 for the purpose of providing grassroots
coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle. The center
acted as a clearinghouse of information for journalists, and provided up-to-the-minute
reports, photos, audio and video footage through its website. Using the collected
footage, the Seattle Independent Media Center (seattle.indymedia.org) produced
a series of five documentaries, uplinked every day to satellite and distributed
throughout the United States to public access stations.
The center also produced its own newspaper, distributed throughout Seattle and
to other cities via the internet, as well as hundreds of audio segments, transmitted
through the web and Studio X, a 24-hour micro and internet radio station based
in Seattle. The site, which uses a democratic open-publishing system, logged
more than 2 million hits, and was featured on America Online, Yahoo, CNN, BBC
Online, and numerous other sites. Through a decentralized and autonomous network,
hundreds of media activists setup independent media centers in London, Canada,
Mexico City, Prague, Belgium, France, and Italy. IMCs have since been established
on every continent, with more to come.
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
The public domain is the realm of material—ideas, images, sounds, discoveries,
facts, texts—that is unprotected by intellectual property rights and free
for all to use or build upon. Our economy, culture and technology depend on
a delicate balance between that which is, and is not, protected by exclusive
intellectual property rights. Both the incentives provided by intellectual property
and the freedom provided by the public domain are crucial to the balance. But
most contemporary attention has gone to the realm of the protected.
The Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School is the first
university center in the world devoted to the other side of the picture.
Founded in September of 2002, as part of the school’s wider intellectual
property program, its mission is to promote research and scholarship on the
contributions of the public domain to speech, culture, science and innovation,
to promote debate about the balance needed in our intellectual property system
and to translate academic research into public policy solutions.
WSIS CIVIL SOCIETY WORKING
GROUP on PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS http://www.wsis-pct.org/
The thematic Working Group (WG) dealing with Patents,Copyrights, Trademarks (P.C.T) and related issues, within the framework of the Civil Society contribution to the World Summit On the Information Society (WSIS) organized by the United Nations.
The WG comprises two kind of boards. The Steering Committee includes NGOs' representatives. The Advisory Committee may include representative of any WSIS participants : UN, IGOs, Governments, Business Entities and NGOs. The task of the Steering Committee is to prepare contributions to the draft Declaration of Principles and Action Plan, to organize round tables, meetings, actions in relationship to WSIS PCT issues. The Advisory Committee provides help to the Steering Committee, and may include representatives of governments, foundations and companies that are willing to participate and provide assistance to events organized by the WG
http://italy.peacelink.org/cris/
[in Italian] Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS) e' una campagna internazionale che chiede che i diritti di comunicazione siano centrali nella Societa' dell'Informazione e nel Summit delle nazioni unite che ne definisce e promuove visione e piano d'azione (WSIS).
CRIS e' una campagna/piattaforma aperta, che mette insieme associazioni e gruppi di attivisti esistenti. E' organizzata in gruppi di lavoro, su temi e questioni specifiche, e capitoli nazionali e regionali per sostenere e promuovere attivita' locali
TRADEWATCH http://tradewatch.splinder.it/
[in Italian]
TRADEWATCH è un osservatorio sull'economia globale e sul commercio internazionale,
un monitor costante sui negoziati post-Cancun, ma anche sugli accordi commerciali,
regionali e bilaterali, che si stanno discutendo in tutto il pianeta.
Tradewatch vuole mantenere alta l'attenzione della società civile sulle
tematiche e sulle dinamiche che potrebbero fatto di Cancun un punto di svolta
nella politica internazionale e della mobilitazione di quest'anno sul Wto un'occasione
unica per incidere sui processi dell'economia mondiale.
Attraverso Tradewatch si troveranno informazioni, dati, analisi e notizie e
tutto ciò che può essere utile per sostenere l'impegno quotidiano
di un mondo in movimento.
Tradewatch è affiancato da LocalTradewatch, sul quale ogni comitato locale
o nodo territoriale potrà pubblicare informazioni sullo stato delle privatizzazioni,
sull'attacco ai diritti del lavoro e agli equilibri ecologici e sociali.
http://www.centerpd.org/
It is a non-profit foundation that supports the growth of a healthy and robust
public domain by establishing programs, grants, and partnerships in the areas
of academic research, medicine, law, education, media, technology , and the
arts.
http://yro.slashdot.org/
On-line community and dicussion group.
Slashdot is owned by Open Source
Development Network, Inc. ("OSDN").
OSDN (Open Source Development Network, Inc.) is the most dynamic community-driven
media network on the Web.
OSDN publishes two world-renowned
networks of Web sites: the OSDN technology network, and the MediaBuilder network.
OSDN delivers more than 180 million page views and reaches 10 million unique
visitors per month.
OSDN technical sites attract all levels of IT decision maker and technical buyer,
from C-level to project managers. Technologists, enterprise architects, developers
and system administrators all turn to OSDN to create, debate, and make or break
IT news, and learn about the latest tools, technologies and techniques.
OSDN sites include Slashdot.org, the award-winning news discussion site; and
SourceForge.net, the world's largest collaborative open source software development
site.
European Digital Rights
http://www.edri.org
European Digital Rights was founded
in June 2002. Currently 14 privacy and civil rights organisations from 11 different
countries in Europe have EDRI membership.
Members of European Digital Rights have joined forces to defend civil rights
in the information society. The need for cooperation among European organizations
is increasing as more regulation regarding the internet, copyright and privacy
is originating from the European Union.
Some examples of regulations and developments that have the attention of European
Digital Rights are data retention requirements, spam, telecommunications interception,
copyright and fair use restrictions, the cyber-crime treaty, rating, filtering
and blocking of internet content and notice-and-takedown procedures of websites.
European Digital Rights has an active interest in developments regarding these
subjects in the EU accession countries and would like to identity partners in
those countries.
Since January 2003, European Digital
Rights produces EDRI-gram, a bi-weekly newsletter about digital civil rights
in Europe.
European Digital Rights is an international non-profit association (AISBL) under
Belgium law granted by decree Nr7/CDLF/14.853/S of 12 February 2003 and registered
in Brussels.
Statutory membership is restricted
to not-for-profit, non-governmental organisations whose goals include the defence
and promotion of civil rights in the field of information- and communication
technology. Organisations that which to join should contact European Digital
Rights or one of its members.
The members of European Digital Rights are (in alphabetic order):
http://www.aclu.org/
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is our nation’s guardian of
liberty. We work daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and
preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this
country by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Our job is to conserve
America’s original civic values - the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
http://www.nyfairuse.org/icc/index.xhtml
This organization defends the commons under attack.
NYfairuse states:
“Today our commons is under attack
League for Programming Freedom
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/
The League for Programming Freedom is an organization that opposes software patents and user interface copyrights.
LPF states:
"Software patents threaten to devastate America's computer industry. Patents
granted in the past decade are now being used to attackcompanies such as the
Lotus Development Corporation for selling programs that they have independently
developed. Soon new companies will often be barred from the software arena--most
major programs will require licenses for dozens of patents, and this will make
them infeasible. This problem has only one solution: software patents must be
eliminated."
http://www.democraticmedia.org/
The Center for Digital Democracy is committed to preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to realizing the full potential of digital communications through the development and encouragement of noncommercial, public interest programming. To these ends, CDD has four broad goals:
Global Policy
Forum http://www.globalpolicy.org/visitctr/about.htm
Global Policy
Forum monitors policy making at the United Nations, promotes accountability
of global decisions, educates and mobilizes for global citizen participation,
and advocates on vital issues of international peace and justice.
GPF is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization, with consultative status at the United Nations. Founded in 1993 by an international group of concerned citizens, GPF works with partners around the world to strengthen international law and create a more equitable and sustainable global society. GPF uses a holistic approach, linking peace and security with economic justice and human development, and we place a heavy emphasis on networking to build broad coalitions for research, action and advocacy.
Sito in Italiano, attento ai temi dei brevetti, attacco alla proprieta' intellettuale, privacy, trustworty computing, etc...
Counnil of European Professional Informatics Society http://www.cepis.org/
CEPIS is a non-profit organisation seeking to improve and promote high standards among informatics professionals in recognition of the impact that informatics has on employment, business and society
Special number (Vol.IV, no. 3, Giugno
2003) of UPGRADE(CEPIS's newletter) on
Open
Knowledge [in EN] , also
in Italian: Conoscenza libera [IT]
