At the Rome Maker Faire, which starts on the 14th of October 2016, Giovanni Battista Gallus, LL.M. Ph.D will present the Italian edition of the Drone Journalism Operation Manual, created by Matt Waite and Ben Kreimer of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Drone Journalism Lab through generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Drone [...]
Last saturday was the twentieth anniversary of the European data protection legislation. On October the 24th of 1995, the Directive 95/46/EC was approved. It was a turning point for all Member States, in order to remove the obstacles to the free flow of personal data, the level of protection of the rights and freedoms of [...]
So the API in the States are copyrighted matter, following to US Supreme Court denial of a certiorari asked by Google? TL;DR: probably not https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/bad-news-supreme-court-refuses-review-oracle-v-google-api-copyright-decision Background. In Europe SAS Institue v. World Programming Language set the law saying that copyright will not apply to programming languages, file formats, API. So far it's the decision going [...]
In December, the Italian government issued final rules implementing a change to procurement law that now requires all public administrations in the country to first consider re-used or free software before committing to proprietary licenses. Importantly, the new rules include an enforcement mechanism, which can, at least in theory, annul decisions that do not follow [...]
Array member Carlo Piana is going to be one of the three speakers in a round table at Open Forum Academy, of which he is a Fellow, on Software Patents. Also in the panel will feature a senior member of the European Patent Office. Save the date, 19th February 2014, Brussels, Hotel Silken Berlaymont. It [...]