From the Italian Association for Free Software (Associazione Software Libero) a press release about a case concerning free software and Public Administration
"The Italian Ministry of Work withdraws the call for tenders appealed by the Associazione per il Software Libero (Free Software Association)
The story
Mrs Viviane Reding, Commissioner for the Information Society and Media, is launching an open public consultation on the benefits and risks of RFID.
The Commission of European Communities has just issued a communication on the follow-up fo the Work Programme for better implementation of the Data Protection Directive. Here you may find the full text.
From ALCEI - Electronic Frontiers Italy (www.alcei.org)
There has been wide reporting, in Italy and internationally, that an Italian court "ruled not-for-profit file-sharing legal". That statement is grossly overstated, if not completely wrong. The (dismal) state of
Italian "copyright" legislation remains, unfortunately, unchanged.
Professional/Job Title
Non-resident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society; Lawyer; Researcher at the University of Milan; Ph.D. in Computer Law at the University of Bologna