Archive for 20 Luglio, 2013

20 Luglio, 2013

Gunther Teubner, Diritto d’accesso, copyright e nuova governance digitale

by gabriella

Le critiche che Teubner ha mosso al copyright e alla governance digitale [Storrs Lectures Yale Law School] istaurata in oltre quindici anni di accordi internazionali e legislazione d’emergenza. Uno stralcio della mia tesi di dottorato (2010).

Una decina d’anni fa, nel pieno dell’offensiva americana antipirateria, il costituzionalista e teorico dei sistemi Gunther Teubner tenne un corso alla Yale Law School sulla governance digitale del copyright.

TeubnerIt is not just technical legal questions […] – chiarì subito il giurista – rather, we are faced with the more fundamental question of a universal political right of access to digital communication […] In the background lurks the theoretical question whether it follows from the evolutionary dynamics of functional differentiation that the various binary codes of the world systems are subordinate to the one difference of inclusion/exclusion. Will inclusion/exclusion become the meta-code of the 21st century, mediating all other codes, but at the same time undermining functional differentiation itself and dominating other social-political problems through the exclusion of entire population groups?[1]

Nel discorso di Teubner la digitalizzazione delle risorse, intrecciando gran parte dei processi di produzione culturale ed economica ai flussi informativi della rete globale, trasforma l’accesso all’informazione in un codice binario di  esclusione/inclusione in grado di far collassare l’intera gamma delle differenziazioni sociali.

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20 Luglio, 2013

Gunther Teubner, Societal Constitutionalism: Alternatives to State-centred Constitutional Theory

by gabriella

TeubnerUno degli articoli più importanti che il costituzionalismo continentale abbia dedicato alla rivoluzione informazionale e alle sue conseguenze politiche. In Storrs Lectures 2003/04 Yale Law School.

I. A Right of Access to Cyberspace?

A group of globalisation critics are suing a commercial host provider of the Internet. They are appealing to the principle of free speech in order to enforce their alleged right of access judicially. The host provider who offers content providers the possibility on its computers to set up websites, had long got caught up in the tangles of state attorneys and private collective actions because some of the websites contained child pornography and Nazi propaganda. The decisive factor came with the decision of the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance, Order of 20 November 2000, ordering Yahoo Inc to bar access by French users to auctions of Nazi objects [1]. The final blow came with the new trends toward publicprivate co-regulation which exempts providers from liability when they cooperate with state agencies [2]. The provider thereupon electronically barred access to all websites where it regarded the risk of criminal or civil actions as too high. The bar also affected political groups rated by Compuserve as politically radical or too close to violent protest campaigns. In a civil action, these groups are now seeking to compel access to the host provider.

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