[governance] W3C Encrypted Media Extensions

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Dear Norbert

Thanks very much for posting this, for the JNC letter and for also
posting the links to APC and UNESCO's statements and WC3's follow up..
which I am still trying to fully 'interpret' :)

Best

Anriette


On 12/04/2017 10:42, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Those who have been here for a while will remember IGC's 2013
> statement in opposition to the efforts at W3C to introduce DRM to the
> web by means of a standardized interface called "Encrypted Media
> Extensions" (EME).
> 
> This has unfortunately nevertheless gone forward at W3C and is now close
> to formal approval as a W3C Recommendation.
> 
> That means that now is the final opportunity for Sir Tim Berners-Lee to
> use his veto power in this matter.
> 
> The Just Net Coalition has just sent him an open letter, urging him to
> do so.
> 
> http://www.justnetcoalition.org/2017/W3C_EME_objection.pdf
> 
> Our corresponding press release is at:
> 
> http://www.justnetcoalition.org/2017/W3C_EME_pressrelease.pdf  
> 
> 
> There is also a recent statement from APC on this issue:
>  
> https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/apc-statement-emerging-tension-between-corporate-a 
> 
> A statement from two members of the European Parliament is at:
> 
> https://juliareda.eu/2017/04/open-letter-to-the-european-commission-on-encry
> pted-media-extensions/ 
> 
> A statement from the UNESCO Secretariat is at:
> 
>   https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/eme_letter_frank_la_rue.pdf 
> 
> The W3C response to the UNESCO statement is at:
> 
>   https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6225 
> 
> The open letter from the Just Net Coalition comments on the W3C
> response to the UNESCO statement.
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 
> 
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Anriette Esterhuysen
Executive Director
Association for Progressive Communications
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