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In a year of scientific breakthroughs — and political failures — what can we learn for the future? Un Digital Sabato sul Copyright e sulla Pandemia, in versione ridotta, Fammi sapere cosa ne pensi :)
Il Copyright c’è, ma pazienza. L’introduzione di un grande articolo sulla Pandemia apparso sul Financial Times Online.
Articolo scritto da Yuval Noah Harari, 26/02/2021
How can we summarise the Covid year from a broad historical perspective? Many people believe that the terrible toll coronavirus has taken demonstrates humanity’s helplessness in the face of nature’s might. In fact, 2020 has shown that humanity is far from helpless. Epidemics are no longer uncontrollable forces of nature. Science has turned them into a manageable challenge.
Why, then, has there been so much death and suffering? Because of bad political decisions.
In previous eras, when humans faced a plague such as the Black Death, they had no idea what caused it or how it could be stopped. When the 1918 influenza struck, the best scientists in the world couldn’t identify the deadly virus, many of the countermeasures adopted were useless, and attempts to develop an effective vaccine proved futile.
It was very different with Covid-19. The first alarm bells about a potential new epidemic began sounding at the end of December 2019. By January 10 2020, scientists had not only isolated the responsible virus, but also sequenced its genome and published the information online. Within a few more months it became clear which measures could slow and stop the chains of infection. Within less than a year several effective vaccines were in mass production. In the war between humans and pathogens, never have humans been so powerful.
Moving life online
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Quanto dura il Copyright su un’opera? Ed è giusto farlo durare? Articolo scritto da Taylor Dafoe.
When an Art Collective Cut Up a $30,000 Damien Hirst Spot Print, the Spots Sold Out. Now the Leftover Paper Just Sold Too—for $261,000
The collective also sold the 88 individual spots cut out from the print individually.
Last week, a collective of artists and designers called MSCHF cut up a Damien Hirst spot print and sold each of the 88 individual spots for $480 each. They then put up for auction what remained of the original $30,000 print: a piece of paper filled with holes and bearing Hirst’s signature. That new work, titled 88 Holes, just sold for $261,400—more than eight and half times its original value as a work by Hirst.
As much as the feat reads…
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Ancora Pandemia, grande dibattito in questi mesi. È giusto che un vaccino così importante e creato anche con fondi pubblici sia brevettato?
Whoever invents a coronavirus vaccine will control the patent – and, importantly, who gets to use it
May 29, 2020 7.03am BST
With research laboratories around the world racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine, a unique challenge has emerged: how to balance intellectual property rights with serving the public good.
Questions of patent protection and access to those patents has prompted an international group of scientists and lawyers to establish the Open COVID Pledge.
This movement calls on organisations to freely make available their existing patents and copyrights associated with vaccine research to create an open patent pool to solve a global problem.
The EU is leading the charge to create such a pool by drafting a resolution at the World Health Organisation. The US, UK and a few others have been opposed to this idea…
Continua a leggere Natalie Stoianoff su The Conversation
Hej, ma sei arrivatÉ™ fin qua, grazie :)
Digital Sabato è una newsletter in cui si pensa digitale, che arriva al sabato.
Non tutti gli articoli riguardano la pandemia o il copyright (non ne avrei le competenze), ma tutti i testi si riferiscono a come il digitale sia una tecnica dell’Uomo per cambiare se stessə.
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A presto!