In this page Leonardo records his thoughts, shares his experiences, reports his achievements and announces his plans (in italics).
| yy | mm | dd | where | Text | |||||||||||||||
| 09 | 12 | 17 18 | Torino | Following the successful meeting in September, Torino has hosted another meeting of the Advanced IPTV Terminal (AIT) Ad Hoc Group. Technical documents and logistic information here |
|||||||||||||||
| 09 | 11 | 29 | TheWeb | Leonardo's statement to a reporter: The HADOPI law is an example of a problem that is real but ill-formulated and worse solved. the fact that immaterial goods can be manipulated with greater freedom does not imply that the laws that used to guarantee the property rights of those goods should be cancelled, but only updated to adjust their use to the new freedom. It iss just ironical that the country that two centuries ago has generated the "Declaration of the rights of Man and Citizen", source of so many changes to the history of mankind, has become the vanguard of a crusade to suppress those rights in the new society that rightly expects to enjoy the new rights made possible by the new freedom. The problem with HADOPI is that not only will the objective not be reached, but the basis of society will be damaged. The very economic interests that the law purports to support will be damaged. The enjoyment of the new freedom will be prevented. all this to preserve obsolete business models. |
|||||||||||||||
| 09 | 11 | 09 | TheWeb | Some think that engineers are needed to undo the confusion created by others. As an engineer I note that the current use of the term "broadband" is most confusing. Depending on countries, people, context it can mean anything from 2 Mbit/s asymmetric to 100 Mbit/s symmetric access. The low end of "broadband" can be obtained with a judicious use of existing infrastructure, but various degrees of new infrastructure is required for the high end. Is it too much to ask you what kind of "broadband" you have in mind before you ask me whether I am pro or con investing in "broaband"? |
|||||||||||||||
| 10 | 26 30 | Xian | The 90th MPEG meeting in Xi'an attended by 300+ experts. Remarkable achievements are
Read the Xi'an MPEG press release |
||||||||||||||||
| 10 | 23 24 | Xian | The 24th DMP meeting in Xi'an produced two main achievements
Read the Xi'an DMP press release |
||||||||||||||||
| 09 | 11 12 | Milano | The Ad hoc group on Advanced IPTV Terminal (AIT) has achieved very significant results, as can be seen from the output documents. Please note that these documents have not been approved by MPEG yet.
|
||||||||||||||||
| 29 03 | London | The 89th MPEG meeting has produced some remarkable results
|
|||||||||||||||||
| 26 | London | The 23rd DMP meeting has approved the Open Media Marketplace (OMM) project. Look at the first set of documents | |||||||||||||||||
| 06 | 13 | Paris | The French Sénat finally approves the so-called HADOPI (Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Œuvres et la Protection des droits sur Internet) law. Leonardo is particularly upset by it not so much because an internet user who has been caught three times illegally handling copyrighted content sees his internet connection severed, but because someone must have access to the content of the private communication of the internet user to make those assessments. Leonardo fears that something similar to the HADOPI law will also be adopted in Italy. However, unlike the French one, the Italian Constitution (Art. 15) is clear about personal communication "La libertà e la segretezza della corrispondenza e di ogni altra forma di comunicazione sono inviolabili. La loro limitazione può avvenire soltanto per atto motivato dell'autorità giudiziaria con le garanzie stabilite dalla legge". (Freedom and privacy of correspondence and of any other form of communication are inviolable. Their limitation can only happen by a motivated deliberation of judiciary authority with the guarantees established by law). The problem with the HADOPI law is that its advocates are right in claiming there is a problem, but wrong with the solution they have come up with. Those opposing it are right on the specifics of the law but wrong because for too many years they have left rights holders alone with their problems and often derided them as "dinosaurs incapable to adapt to the digital age" (a critique that is partly true) while their assets were being looted. Leonardo prides himself to have been among those who have developed the Digital Media in Italia (dmin.it) proposal, the only comprehensive fully elaborated proposal that takes into account the needs of all stakeholders to overcome the impasse the HADOPI law wrongly addresses. |
||||||||||||||||
| 04 | 29 30 | Praha | Leonardo sits on a Panel at Patinnova 2009 discussing "Intellectual Property (IP) in rapidly developing industries - does it stimulate innovation?". His message: "We already have enough robust protection of IP. What rights holders desperately need now is smart exploitation of IP. The goals of the two are not necessarily in sync". | ||||||||||||||||
| 25 | Maui, HI | Leonardo closes the 22nd DMP meeting. The preliminary working draft of the Open Media marketplace is produced. See the Maui Press Release to know about other results | |||||||||||||||||
| 24 | Maui, HI | Leonardo closes the 88th MPEG meeting. See the Maui Press Release to know about results | |||||||||||||||||
| 03 | 26 | TheWeb | Carlo Piana, a law attorney specialising in the Open Source Software (OSS) practice he calls "Free Software", submits a proposal for an "MXM Public Licence" to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) on behalf of Leonardo. The proposal basically extends the provisions of the Mozilla Public Licence (MPL 1.1) where (legal concepts expressed by a non-legal person) the originator of the code releases the copyright of the code, the patents that are relevant to exercise the code that he may hold, but not the patents that he does not hold. The proposed MXM licence, including text that the originator does not release the patents he holds that are required to exercise the code, angers some OSS integralists. Humble observations of a non-legal person:
|