Tutela del software e diritto d'autore. Convergenze e interferenze


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Tecnologia - saggio (317 pagine) - L’obiettivo del presente testo è quello di comprendere, in un avvicendarsi di interferenze e convergenze, come agire e come proteggere il software in funzione della sua peculiare struttura costituita da due elementi, tecnologico (che ne definisce la sua applicazione pratica) e descrittivo (che ne definisce la sua forma espressiva), assumendo quindi un articolato dibattito dottrinale sulla dicotomia diritto d’autore/brevetto rispetto al dualismo forma/contenuto Lo sviluppo delle nuove tecnologie informatiche e la loro diffusione hanno condotto dottrina e giurisprudenza a dover misurarsi con nuovi istituti e categorie giuridiche, a dover trovare una propria collocazione giuridica al fine di poter sviluppare un’adeguata disciplina di protezione nell’ambito della Proprietà intellettuale. Oggetto dell’analisi è il software, ossia quella “creazione intellettuale” che in quanto tale per essere giuridicamente protetta dovrebbe essere sottoposta ad una tutela ben definita. L’obiettivo del presente testo è quello di comprendere, in un avvicendarsi di interferenze e convergenze, come agire e come proteggere il software in funzione della sua peculiare struttura costituita da due elementi, tecnologico (che ne definisce la sua applicazione pratica) e descrittivo (che ne definisce la sua forma espressiva), assumendo quindi un articolato dibattito sulla dicotomia diritto d’autore/brevetto rispetto al dualismo forma/contenuto: è possibile una “complementarietà” delle due tutele? Abbiamo assistito sino ad oggi ad un cambiamento della tecnologia e dell’utilizzo del software che ha comportato il passaggio graduale da una tecnologia analogica ad una tecnologia digitale, secondo diverse modalità di distribuzione delle opere dell’ingegno e diverse forme di controllo ed esecuzione. In seguito quindi allo sviluppo sempre crescente della tecnologia informatica (che comprende gli apparecchi digitali e i programmi software) e telematica (che si esprime nelle reti telematiche), il cui compito è di adempiere alla crescita della conoscenza e allo sviluppo delle capacità umane, la dottrina si è assunta l’incarico di studiare ed interpretare il tema del software, di Internet e della Rete. Le nuove tecnologie informatiche e di telecomunicazione costituiscono i due pilastri su cui si regge la cosiddetta Società dell’Informazione. Maria Alessandra Monanni: Legal Specialist in Proprietà Intellettuale, Copywriter e Blogger – Laurea magistrale in Scienze Politiche e Laurea triennale in Giurisprudenza, con master di specializzazione in Diritto della Proprietà Intellettuale, dopo anni di lavoro dipendente – durante il quale si è occupata in particolare di Proprietà industriale e intellettuale nel settore dei brevetti e ha vissuto un’esperienza anche nel settore dei marchi – ha voluto unire la sua passione per la comunicazione e il marketing con il patrimonio di esperienza e conoscenza professionale acquisita nel tempo, al suo amore per la scrittura. La vera espressione di questa creatività è il suo blog www.sandyeilweb.com dove condivide emozioni e importanti spunti di riflessione sul mondo del web e delle nuove tecnologie allo scopo di tutelare i nostri diritti e sfruttare al meglio le potenzialità. Collabora come autore con SPRINT – Sistema di Proprietà Intellettuale – una banca dati giuridica e portale di informazione quotidiana sulla Proprietà Industriale e Intellettuale e con FAIRPLAY – Antitrust, Mercato, Consumatori – una banca dati giuridica e portale di informazione quotidiana.




Evidence-Based Public Health


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There are at least three ways in which a public health program or policy may not reach stated goals for success: 1) Choosing an intervention approach whose effectiveness is not established in the scientific literature; 2) Selecting a potentially effective program or policy yet achieving only weak, incomplete implementation or "reach," thereby failing to attain objectives; 3) Conducting an inadequate or incorrect evaluation that results in a lack of generalizable knowledge on the effectiveness of a program or policy; and 4) Paying inadequate attention to adapting an intervention to the population and context of interest To enhance evidence-based practice, this book addresses all four possibilities and attempts to provide practical guidance on how to choose, carry out, and evaluate evidence-based programs and policies in public health settings. It also begins to address a fifth, overarching need for a highly trained public health workforce. This book deals not only with finding and using scientific evidence, but also with implementation and evaluation of interventions that generate new evidence on effectiveness. Because all these topics are broad and require multi-disciplinary skills and perspectives, each chapter covers the basic issues and provides multiple examples to illustrate important concepts. In addition, each chapter provides links to the diverse literature and selected websites for readers wanting more detailed information. An indispensable volume for professionals, students, and researchers in the public health sciences and preventative medicine, this new and updated edition of Evidence-Based Public Health aims to bridge research and evidence with policies and the practice of public health.







Birth Power


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Reviews the historical, legal, and social complications of surrogate motherhood, arguing in favor of this contractual arrangement




Coordinating Participation in Dialogue Interpreting


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Dialogue interpreting, which takes place in institutional settings such as legal proceedings, healthcare contexts, work meetings or media talk, has attracted increasing attention in translation, language and communication studies. Drawing on transcribed sequences of authentic talk, this volume raises questions about aspects of interpreting that have been taken for granted, challenging preconceived notions about differences between professional and non-professional interpreting and pointing in new directions for future research. Collecting contributions from major scholars in the field of dialogue interpreting and interaction studies, the volume offers new insights into the relationship between interpreting and mediating. It addresses a wide readership, including students and scholars in translation and interpreting studies, mediation and negotiation studies, linguistics, sociology, communication studies, conversation analysis, discourse analysis.




Conscripts of Modernity


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At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history—when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corruption, and authoritarianism—David Scott argues the need to reconceptualize the past in order to reimagine a more usable future. He describes how, prior to independence, anticolonialists narrated the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism as romance—as a story of overcoming and vindication, of salvation and redemption. Scott contends that postcolonial scholarship assumes the same trajectory, and that this imposes conceptual limitations. He suggests that tragedy may be a more useful narrative frame than romance. In tragedy, the future does not appear as an uninterrupted movement forward, but instead as a slow and sometimes reversible series of ups and downs. Scott explores the political and epistemological implications of how the past is conceived in relation to the present and future through a reconsideration of C. L. R. James’s masterpiece of anticolonial history, The Black Jacobins, first published in 1938. In that book, James told the story of Toussaint L’Ouverture and the making of the Haitian Revolution as one of romantic vindication. In the second edition, published in the United States in 1963, James inserted new material suggesting that that story might usefully be told as tragedy. Scott uses James’s recasting of The Black Jacobins to compare the relative yields of romance and tragedy. In an epilogue, he juxtaposes James’s thinking about tragedy, history, and revolution with Hannah Arendt’s in On Revolution. He contrasts their uses of tragedy as a means of situating the past in relation to the present in order to derive a politics for a possible future.




Mood and Modality


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Palmer investigates the category of modality, drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide variety of languages.




Pragmatics


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An integrative and lucid analysis of central topics in the field of linguistic pragmatics deixis, implicature, presupposition, speed acts, and conversational structure.




Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity


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This collection of ten essays offers the first systematic assessment of JürgenHabermas's Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, a book that defended the rational potential of themodern age against the depiction of modernity as a spent epoch. The essays (of which four are newlycommissioned, five were published in the journal Praxis International, and one -- by Habermas --first appeared in translation in New Critique) are divided into two sections: Critical Rejoindersand Thematic Reformulations.An opening essay by d'Entrèves sets out the main issues and orients thedebate between Habermas and the postmodernists by identifying two different senses ofresponsibility: a responsibility to act versus a responsibility to otherness (an openness todifference, dissonance, and ambiguity). These are linked with two alternative understandings of theprimary function of language: action-orienting versus world-disclosing. This is a fruitful way oflooking at the issues that Habermas has raised in his attempt to resurrect and complete the projectof Enlightenment.Habermas's essay discusses the main themes of his book in the context of a criticalengagement with neoconservative cultural and political trends. The main body of essays offer aninteresting collection of points of view, for and against Habermas's position by philosophers,social scientists, intellectual historians, and literary critics.SECTIONS & CONTRIBUTORS :Introduction, Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves. Modernity versus Postmodernity, Jürgen Habermas.Critical Rejoinders : Fred Dallmayr. Christopher Norris. David C. Hoy. James Schmidt. JoelWhitebook. Thematic Reformulations : James Bohman. Diana Coole. Jay M. Bernstein. DavidIngram.




Grammar in Everyday Talk


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Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show that speakers build their responses in a variety of ways: the responses can be longer or shorter, repetitive or not, and can be uttered with different intonational 'melodies'. Focusing on four sequence types: responses to questions ('What time are we leaving?' - 'Seven'), responses to informings ('The May Company are sure having a big sale' - 'Are they?'), responses to assessments ('Track walking is so boring. Even with headphones' - 'It is'), and responses to requests ('Please don't tell Adeline' - 'Oh no I won't say anything'), they argue that an interactional approach holds the key to explaining why some types of utterances in English conversation seem to have something 'missing' and others seem overly wordy.