[governance] Re: Draft Statement #DRM HTML5/ was [Should the IGC support Formal Objection by EFF?] #DRM in HTML5

[Lee W McKnight]

  *   How about: "We believe that the inclusion of digital rights management in HTML5 will CONSTRAIN WEB innovation.  We strongly object to inclusion of digital rights management (DRM) in HTML5, AND INSIST DRM INDUSTRY INTERESTS NOT DISTORT CORE PROTOCOLS OF THE OPEN INTERNET."

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From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] on behalf of Avri Doria [avri at acm.org]
Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 8:50 AM
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Subject: Re: [governance] Re: Draft Statement #DRM HTML5/ was [Should the IGC support Formal Objection by EFF?] #DRM in HTML5


On 2 Jun 2013, at 08:34, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:

> We believe that the inclusion of digital rights management in HTML5 will kill innovation and we strongly object to the inclusion of digital rights management (DRM) in HTML5.
>
>

Thanks for highlighting this sentence. While I have issues with some of the others that I need to think through, this one stands out as problematic for me.

I think that 'innovation' is one of those unidentifiables that everyone invokes in their statements no matter what position they are taking.

- those advocating DRM say that without the money that DRM enables no one would innovate at all (i disagree btw)

- those opposing DRM say that without the work of others to learn from and build upon we would kill innovation.  I  disagree, sure it makes innovation more challenging and is the wrong thing to do, but kill it?  I don't think so.

People will innovate because they are innovators, so we can facilitate or hinder it, but neither side can kill it.

I think if we going to include a reason, something I am not sure we should do, I think it has to rest of arguments related to Access to Knowledge.

avri



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