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L’utilizzo della blockchain e degli smart contract nel settore industriale dell’agri-food
No full textIl volume è il prodotto finale del Progetto di ricerca «The use of Blockchain and Smart Contract in the agri-food industry. The case study of Emilia Romagna», finanziato dal Dipartimento di Scienze economiche e aziendali dell’Università di Parma, e approfondisce variegati profili critici legati all’uso delle nuove tecnologie nel comparto agroalimentare Il lavoro si pone come strumento conoscitivo non solo per gli operatori del diritto, ma per tutti i soggetti coinvolti nella filiera produttiva
Blockchain e indicazioni geografiche
No full textIl tema dell’utilizzo della tecnologia blockchain, per quanto non abbia certo esaurito il suo carattere innovativo, è ormai ben presente alla riflessione giuridica, pervadendone quasi tutti i settori, con un ruolo indubbiamente primario del diritto commerciale e nello specifico del diritto della proprietà industriale e intellettuale. Di più, l’innovazione blockchain è sovente presentata come una svolta tecnologica in grado di offrire opportunità prima impensabili, come tale capace finanche di rivoluzionare gli stessi meccanismi di funzionamento degli istituti ai quali viene applicata. Da questo punto di vista, non fa eccezione il regime delle indicazioni geografiche, il quale – nella sua accezione europea di privativa sui generis – mostra una notevole propensione verso il potenziale applicativo di questa tecnologia. Tanto premesso, in questa sede si è chiamati a sviluppare ulteriormente la riflessione sul rapporto tra tecnologia blockchain e indicazioni geografiche nelle sue implicazioni giuridiche. Oltre all’analisi di potenzialità e criticità applicative, vi è una questione più ampia che si pone all’attenzione e che riguarda la valenza sistematica stessa della blockchain. In particolare, la sua potenzialità deve essere correttamente intesa: ovverosia, la blockchain può sicuramente rafforzare le indicazioni geografiche nella loro funzione di tracciamento qualitativo, ma non è, e non può essere, in grado di rivoluzionarle. Ovverosia, pare eccessivo presentare la blockchain come capace di sanare le criticità intrinseche all’istituto, perché il suo potenziale tecnologico non ne muta la natura di mero strumento. Semplicemente, occorre fare attenzione a non confondere i piani o, peggio, suscitare mistificazioni: le peculiarità delle indicazioni geografiche come diritto di proprietà industriale sui generis restano tali a prescindere dalla blockchain, nel bene e nel male, e con esse le relative sfide che l’istituto stesso è chiamato ad affrontare e risolvere dal suo interno
From Abuse of Right to European Copyright Misuse: A New Doctrine for EU Copyright Law
No full textThe great expansion of EU copyright law has paved the way for several rightholders’ abusive or dysfunctional conducts, without providing adequate solutions to prevent or remedy them. The answer from EU sources is characterized by extreme fragmentation, with tools mostly borrowed from external bodies of law. Paradoxically, the doctrine of abuse of right has long been neglected as a potential solution, mainly due to its flaws – difficult evidence-taking and weak remedies – and its incompatibility with the discretionary nature of continental authors’ rights. Yet, the notion emerges between the lines of several ECJ decisions, and finds its way from civil codes to copyright in a number of national courts’ precedents. Due to the paradigm shift towards a market-oriented and industry-based inspiration, EU copyright seems now to be open to admitting the possibility of misuse.
Starting from these premises, this article argues that a unitary doctrine of copyright misuse may constitute an effective balancing tool for most of the dysfunctional conducts that copyright law and other bodies of law are still unable to resolve. In addition, it may also act as a regulatory paradigm to ensure greater certainty and transparency in the judicial development of key principles and rules of EU copyright law. To this end, the paper (a) proposes a four-prong test of abusiveness, incorporating criteria of proportionality and reasonableness inspired by the normative function(s) of exclusive rights; and (b) offers new perspectives on potential remedies and on the positive impact of the doctrine on the systematization of the current legislative framework
Implementazione della Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive 2464/2022 a livello europeo e suo recepimento in Italia: i contenuti della direttiva
No full textL'articolo, elaborato insieme alla Dott.ssa Silvia Scalzini, fornisce un primo quadro interpretativo della direttiva sulla "rendicontazione di sostenibilità" a carico delle imprese, descrivendo anche con osservazioni critiche le rilevanti innovazioni normative e prospettando un primo quadro di questioni oggetto di proposte e osservazioni al testo di decreto di recepimento in sede di consultazione pubblica del MEF nel 2024
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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