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Dejan Lazic. Photo by Susie Knoll. The Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, Sunday, August 21 Hector Berlioz – Overture to Beatrice et Benedict George Tsontakis – “Sonnets,” tone poems for English Horn and Orchestra (2015), Robert Sheena – English Horn Camille Saint-Saens – Piano Concerto no. 5 in F, op. 103, “Egyptian,” Dejan Lazic – piano Sergei Prokofiev – excerpts from the ballet “Romeo and Juliet”…
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In 2010, the Croatian pianist Dejan Lazic played a recital in Washington, D.C., and got a mildly critical review. Somehow that stuck: It's the second item that comes up when you Google Lazic's name, after his own website. Now he wants it permanently removed from the search engine in Europe, under the European Union's new "right to be forgotten" ruling.
Interesting... It's a bit unfortunate that Google's pagerank would do this to him. This review is absolutely not defamatory, however.
La visione del pianista Dejan Lazic, così come riassunta dal Post, ne è un esempio lampante. «Dovremmo vivere in un mondo, argomenta Lazic, in cui chiunque – non solo artisti e performer ma anche politici e ufficiali pubblici – dovrebbe poter alterare gli archivi secondo le proprie opinioni e gusti», si legge. Un arbitrio totale (che per Lazic avviene comunque nel nome della «verità») certo non promosso dalla sentenza, ma evidentemente fondamentale nel modo in cui il pubblico ne ha recepito il messaggio di fondo. Non a caso, forse, Google ha respinto più di metà (il 58,2% per l’esattezza) delle richieste di de-indicizzazione. Il problema è quello messo in evidenza con chiarezza da James Ball, raccontando come il diritto all’oblio UE abbia condotto alla rimozione di link a sei articoli del suo giornale, il Guardian, tra i risultati di ricerca: che «quando si cerchi qualcuno su Google dall’interno dell’UE, non si vedano più le informazioni che il gigante del search ritiene essere le più importanti e rilevanti su un invididuo», ma solo quelle che il cercato «non sta cercando di nascondere».
Il pianista che voleva rimuovere le critiche dal web: cedimenti culturali e diritto all’oblio, Fabio Chiusi
The first request to take down a review under the EU’s “right to be forgotten” law. The review in question is a tepid assessment of pianist Dejan Lazic’s performance in concert. The Washington Post reviewer, Anne Midgette, notes Lazic’s talent and competence, but felt he didn’t perform to his potential. I don’t know if criticism is covered by the law, but if so, that’s pretty terrible. Lazic’s appeals to “the truth” are ridiculous in the context of professional opinions. From the article: It’s a question that goes far beyond law or ethics, frankly — it’s also baldly metaphysical, a struggle with the very concept of reality and its determinants. Lazic (and to some extent, the European court) seem to believe that the individual has the power to determine what is true about himself, as mediated by the search engines that process his complaints. Accordingly, in the three months after the “right to be forgotten” ruling went into effect, Google approved 53 percent of take-down requests on first application, and an additional 15 percent upon further review.