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

Aida Noblia aidanoblia at gmail.com
Sun Jun 2 16:48:52 EDT 2013


Ok   in accordance


2013/6/2 Avri Doria <avri at acm.org>

> +1
>
> On 2 Jun 2013, at 14:48, Lee W McKnight wrote:
>
> >       • 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."
> > 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
> > To: IGC
> > 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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