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JANUARY 29, 2012
A week and a half ago it was time to act to stop the SOPA and PIPA bills. This action was successful. Now it is time to mobilize against ACTA - a worldwide treaty that is a harsher version of these bills. The European Parliament (as well as the national parliaments) has the power to dismiss ACTA. ACT NOW!
by gui
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JANUARY 21, 2012
Since mid October and until the summer I will be at Princeton University as a post-doc fellow working with Alex Todorov.
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JANUARY 20, 2012
I got the following letter from rep. rush holt regarding the SOPA and PIPA bills, it is definitely noteworthy reading it:
Dear Mr. Costa:
Thank you for contacting me regarding H. R. 3261, the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill offered by Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas. I appreciate knowing your views
As your voice in the U.S. House of Representatives, I always strive to represent my constituents' concerns and interests and to provide personal service to them. I truly value your input and suggestions on the issues before the House. In a representative government such as ours, it is essential that I know what you are thinking in order to do my job. It is also important for you to know that I hear from thousands of your fellow New Jerseyans every year. While some share your views, others do not. For me, that is a reminder that we are all part of a community, and that reasonable people of good will can and do disagree on the important issues of the day.
The goal of preventing the piracy of movies, music, and other intellectual property is something I support strongly. Unfortunately, SOPA shifts the current federal focus from going after the individuals or organizations directly responsible for copyright infringements to forcing web hosting services, online payment vendors, and other intermediaries immediately to take down entire domains if a copyright infringement is even alleged. The damage done to our valuable free communication could exceed by far the danger and damage of the piracy and copyright theft.
Like you, I have many concerns about SOPA and its potential practical and legal consequences if enacted in its current form. Groups as diverse as the American Library Association, Human Rights First, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Freedom House have noted that with regard to the domain filtering requirements, the bill would also "...undermine the U.S. government's commitment to advancing a single, global Internet. Its inclusion risks setting a precedent for other countries, even democratic ones, to use the same mechanisms to enforce a range of domestic policies, effectively balkanizing the global medium of the internet." In short, the bill would undermine the ability of the U. S. government to encourage the spread of democracy abroad. The overbroad language of the bill would ensure major negative spillover effects, which is one of the reasons why I will not support it in its current form
I am encouraged by the fact that Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and Jerry Moran (R-KS) have introduced a SOPA alternative, the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) Act (S. 2029). The OPEN Act would utilize the International Trade Commission (ITC) to investigate violations of digital trade and websites found to be "willfully" and "primarily" infringing on copyright material can be shut down. Utilizing the ITC to create a transparent and adversarial process where all parties would receive due process and IP rules can be consistently applied is a more rational approach than the ones proposed in SOPA or the Protect IP Act in the Senate. Should the OPEN Act come to the House floor for a vote in its current form, I would support it.
Again, thank you for taking the time to contact me. To learn more about my work on this and other issues, please visit my website at http://holt.house.gov. I look forward to hearing from you again about this and other issues.
Sincerely
RUSH HOLT
Member of Congress
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JANUARY 19, 2012
yesterday I took the website down to join the protest against the SOPA and PIPA bills (more info here)
- this is how the website looked like yesterday, January 18, 2012:
www.rui-s-costa.com
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->NEW ISSUE OF IN-MIND_PT IS OUT!
. Visit http://pt.in-mind.org to read and download the papers from the latest double issue (Nr.. 2-3, Vol.1) of IN-MIND_PT
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. September 8 - September 16, 2008 - Lisbon, Portugal
. September 16 - October 26, 2008 - Davis, California
. October 26 - December 16, 2008 - Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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->!!! NEW LINKS !!!
Check out the new links here. You will find a bit about some extra-scientific activities...
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->UPCOMING CONFERENCES WHERE I WILL BE:
Location: Institute for Noetic Sciences Retreat Center - Petaluma, California - October 21-23, 2008
SPSP 2008 - Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference
Location: Tampa Convention Center - Tampa, Florida - February 5-7, 2009
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->RECENT CONFERNCES WHERE I WAS (WITH A MAP):
ESCON TKC 2008- European Social Cognition Network, Transfer of Knowledge Conference
Location: Volterra, Italy, September 3-7, 2008
Location: Cardiff, UK, August 17-31, 2008
ICP 2008 - 29th International Congress of Psychology
Location: Berlin, Germany, July 20-25, 2008
EAESP 2008 - 15th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology
Location: Opatija, Croatia, June 10-14, 2008
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SESP 2007 - Annual Conference of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology
Location: University of Chicago - Chicago, Illinois - October 11-13, 2007
PMIG 2007 - Person Memory Interest Group Meeting
Location: Illinois Beach Resort and Conference Center - Zion, Illinois - October 9-11, 2007
BAMM! 2007 - 4th Annual Bay Area Memory MeetingLocation: University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley, California - August 25, 2007
APA 2007 - 115th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association
Location: Moscone Center South and West, San Francisco, California - August 17-20, 2007
COGNITO 2007 - Connected Minds: Cognition & Interaction in the Social World
Location: Institute of Cognitive Science, Université du Québec à Montréal - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - June 15-17, 2007
ENIPSO 2007 - IV Encontro de Investigação em Psicologia Social e das Organizações
Location: Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa - Lisboa, Portugal - March 1-2, 2007