Today I’ve made a short presentation in the MRU conference “Social Technologies 2010: Challenges, Opportunities, Solutions“. Original PPT is available to download from my account at slideshare.com.
Meanwhile, short overview. We have already quite a few cases in Lithuania, where various P2P issues are tried in legal sense. For example, it started with dc.meganet.lt take-down in October 2008, later on November 2009 in we had “106” investigation and soon afterwards “Microsoft” vs. “linkomanija.net”. Not to talk about lower profile cases such as “tracker.lt“.
Various issues are just shortly mentioned in the presentation, …

As today the first meeting of New media experts committee starts in the Council of Europe. According to the decisions by 1st Council of Europe Conference of Ministers Responsible for Media and New Communication Services, the mandate for the expert group is provided for two  yers period.
The Committe is instructed to work in three areas: a) examine, whereas the understanding of what are media remains valid in the new environment; b) explore the challenges to individual’s rights to freedom of expression and information, privacy and other fundamental rights, as well …

Kaip žinia, nemažai verslo reikalais bendrauju su norvegais, todėl šią savaitę šalia verslo reikalų turėjau progą pakalbėti ir bendresnėmis temomis. Viena jų – tai imigrantai ir jų įsiliejimas į mūsų bendruomenes.
Nebijau savo nuomonės, tačiau šiais tolerantų laikais iš karto turiu įspėti – mano nuomonė yra subjektyvi ir nesijaučiu nė kiek blogai, jog ji neatitinka viešoje erdvėje sklandančių politinio korektiškumo reikalavimų.
Eilinį kartą ir vis plačiau pasakodamas svečiams apie Lietuvos istoriją visada patenku į tolerancijos sritį. Kas tai bebūtų – vokiečiai, norvegai, japonai ar kitų valstybių atstovai, visiems daro įspūdį galybė skirtingų …

Yesterday I was accredited by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania and received the first offical press pass issued to blogger in Lithuania (still looking for colleagues throughout Europe, whereas US has FishbowlDC and his press pass fight story with the White House in 2005).
The Law on the Provision of Information to the Public states:
Article 35. Accrediting
1. The public information producer shall have the right, according to an agreement between the parties, to accredit his own journalists with state institutions, political parties, political and public organisations and also, …