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Sekian, terima kasih.
AMINUDDIN BIN AHMAD
Penolong Pendaftar Kanan Senior Assistant Registrar
Bahagian Pengurusan Korporat Corporate Management Division
Pusat Teknologi Maklumat dan Komunikasi Centre for Information and Communication
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Tel : 07-5532043
Fax : 07-5566164
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You may own your car, but you don’t own the software that makes it work— that still belongs to your car’s manufacturer. You’re allowed to use the software, but in the past, trying to alter it in any way (including fixing it by yourself when it breaks or patching security holes) was a form of copyright infringement. iFixit, Repair.org, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and many others think this is ridiculous, and they’ve been lobbying the government to try to change things.
A year ago, the U.S. Copyright Office agreed that people should be able to modify the software that runs cars that they own, and as of last Friday, that ruling came into effect. It’s good for only two years, though, so get hacking.
The legal and technical distinction between physical ownership and digital ownership is perhaps most familiar in the context of DVD movies. You can go to the store and buy a DVD, and when you do, you own that DVD. You don’t, however, own the movie that comes on it: Instead, it’s more like you own limited rights to watch the movie, which is a very different thing. If the DVD is protected by Digital Rights Management (DRM) software, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) says that you are not allowed to circumvent that software, even if you’re just trying to watch the movie on a different device, change the region restriction so that you can watch it in a different country, or do any number of other things that it really seems like you should be able to do with a piece of media that you paid 20 bucks for.
Cars work in a similar way. You own the car as a physical object, but you only have limited rights to the software that controls it, because the car’s manufacturer holds the copyright on that software. This prevents you from making changes to the software, even if those changes are to fix problems or counter obsolescence, as well as preventing you from investigating the security of the software, which can have very serious and direct consequences for you as the owner and driver. It’s also worth pointing out that (especially in older vehicles like the 1995 Volvo 940 Turbo belonging to a certain anonymous journalist) relatively simple computerized parts can cost a ridiculous amount of money to replace because there is no legal alternative besides buying a new one from the manufacturer, who hasn’t made them in 20 years and would much rather you just bought an entirely new car anyway.
Hrmph.
The fundamental point is this, as the Repair Association and iFixit point out in their most recent filing with the U. S. Copyright Office: “It should not require extensive litigation to make clear that purchasing a product gives you basic property rights to do things like repair and modify the thing you’ve bought.”
Happily, the Copyright Office saw things the same way, and included an exemption to the DMCA (now in place) that will:
Allow circumvention of TPMs [technological protection measures] protecting computer programs that control the functioning of a motorized land vehicle, including personal automobiles, commercial motor vehicles, and agricultural machinery, for purposes of lawful diagnosis and repair, or aftermarket personalization, modification, or other improvement. Under the exemption as proposed, circumvention would be allowed when undertaken by…the lawful owner of the vehicle.
This comes with a few caveats, in response to opposition from everyone who you’d probably expect, including the Association of Global Automakers, General Motors, and John Deere, among others. First, you still can’t mess with the vehicle entertainment system, since you could hypothetically use it to commit copyright infringement. You can’t screw around with any kind of telematics that you might find, either. And you’re definitely not allowed to make modifications that break other laws, including emissions laws. The automakers also argued that giving car owners the option to repair their own cars “was unnecessary in any event because vehicle owners have alternative options, such as manufacturer-authorized repair shops and tools.” Uh huh, thanks.
The DMCA exemption granted by the Copyright Office is good for three years from a year ago, since they felt that the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation needed a solid 12 months to prepare for all the mayhem that being able to fix your own car is going to cause. This means that by the end of 2018, all of this will be up in the air again.
The good news is that iFixit and Repair.org are already working with the Copyright Office to try to make this permanent, and as long as being legally able to repair things doesn’t somehow lead directly to total anarchy plus the death of the auto industry as we know it, we’d like to imagine that the right to repair philosophy is here to stay.
ADBIS 2017
Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
24 – 27 September, 2017
http://cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/
The main objective of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a forum
for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote
interaction and collaboration between the database and information system
research communities from European countries and the rest of the world.
The ADBIS conferences provide an international platform for the presentation
of research on database theory, development of advanced DBMS
technologies, and their advanced applications.
The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions
(regular papers, short papers) reviewed and selected by an international
program committee, as well as of invited talks and tutorials presented by
leading scientists. The official language of the conference will be English. A
Doctoral Consortium and different Workshops will be held in line with the
main conference.
TOPICS
We invite original papers describing results that broadly belong to both
theory and practice of databases and information systems. The list of
specific topics of interest follows, with a note that it is not exhaustive and
we welcome novel results addressing topics not included in the list.
· Data intensive sciences and databases
· Theoretical foundations of databases
· Management of large scale data systems
· Data models and query languages
· Database monitoring and (self-)tuning
· Data curation, annotation, and provenance
· Data warehousing, OLAP, and ETL tools
· Indexing, query processing and optimization
· Data mining and knowledge discovery
· Big data storage, replication, and consistency
· Modeling, mining and querying user generated content
· Data quality and data cleansing
· Web, XML and semi-structured databases
· Sensor databases and mobile data management
· Text databases and information retrieval
· Probabilistic databases, uncertainty and approximate querying
· Temporal and spatial databases
· Graph databases
· Databases on emerging hardware architectures
· Distributed data platforms, including Cloud data systems, key-value stores,
and Big Data systems
· Information extraction and integration
· Streaming data analysis
· Scalable data analysis and analytics
· Data and information visualization; and user interfaces
· Information quality and usability
· Information system architectures and networking
· Business process modeling and optimization
· Data and information flow engineering and management
· Context-aware and adaptive information systems
· Data and information intensive services
· Requirements engineering for databases and information systems
· Artificial intelligence in databases and information systems
· Data, information, and information systems security
· Innovative platforms for data and information handling
· Innovative approaches for database and information systems engineering
· Novel database and information systems applications
PAPER PUBLISHING
ADBIS accepted research papers will be published in a Springer Lecture
Notes in Computer Science volume. Papers must not exceed 14 pages in
the LNCS format. For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word style (find
here http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=
0-164-2-793332-0&changeHeader). The program committee may
decide to accept a submission as a short paper if it reports interesting
results but does not justify publication of a full paper. ADBIS short
research papers must not exceed 8 pages. The best paper authored solely
by students will receive an award. Best papers of the main conference will
be invited for submission in special issues of the ISI-indexed journals
Information Systems (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/)
and Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/).
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
· Papers must be written in English.
· Papers must contain previously unpublished work and not be submitted
concurrently to another conference.
· Papers are submitted using an electronic submissions system, as detailed
below.
· An Author of an accepted paper must register to ADBIS 2017 in order to
have the paper published.
· Accepted papers must be presented at the conference by one of the authors.
· ADBIS papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adbis2017.
· Papers must be submitted as a single PDF document
· Authors of accepted papers must submit along with the camera-ready
version of their paper a copyright form filled
(http://www.cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/files/springerform.pdf) and
signed. Please note that only authors employed by the EU (as an institution)
tick the relevant box. Authors who simply reside or work in an EU country
should not tick this box.
IMPORTANT DATES
· Full and Short Papers: March 30, 2017
· Notification of Acceptance: May 25, 2017
· Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2017
COMMITTEES
Steering Committee Chair
· Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia
General Chair
· George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Program Chairs
· Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia
· Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Proceedings Chair
· Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Workshops Chairs
· Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
· Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
· Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France
· Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy
Assalamu’alaikum/Salam Sejahtera,
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