In recent weeks the parliaments and governments across the world are grappling with the same problem: how to deal with the impact that new technologies have on copyright as well as traditionally understood.
Digital piracy, file-sharing, penalties for violators of the rules, the role of providers are the key words of this debate. If the problem is the same at all latitudes, the same can not be said of the solutions proposed.
While in Italy, in fact, the bills thus far presented are distinguished by the clear goal of "normalizing" and "rein in" the network, resulting in compression of digital rights and weakening of the enormous opportunities offered by the Net, in other countries trying to a course which is of greater balance.
And 'the case of Norway, where Bård Vegar Solhjell , Minister of Education and Research , in a post on his blog has said it wants to legalize file-sharing, saying that just as the TV did not determine the end of the radio that of the books and the Web, so the p2p will not entail the end of music. Therefore, according to Minister Solhjell the music industry should find a system capable of reconciling the needs of rights holders with the expectations of consumers, such as Spotify , a service which - thanks to agreements with major record labels - allows users to to listen and share music for free and legal.
Is thought to reflect the proposed laws at this time that you are in Italy and I wonder if he's right Aristotle when he wrote that "Every people has the leaders it deserves."