[ga] Re: [A2k] UK All Party Parliamentary Internet Group Inquiry into DRMS

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barbara and all,

  I would have to wonder, given the recent settlement with Verisign regarding
.COM, if copyrights are at the TLD level or SLD level?

Barbara Stratton wrote:

> [ Converted text/html to text/plain ]
> A public inquiry has been announced by the All Party Parliamentary Internet
> Group (http://www.apig.org.uk[1]), into the issues surrounding Digital Rights
> Management.  It will examine threats and opportunities and consider how
> consumers, creators and distributors can be protected in the evolving digital
> marketplace.  The focus is on music, films and software, but the implications
> are equally relevant to published textual and other content.
>
> The wish to cover the following issues:
>
> ·         Whether DRM distorts the traditional checks and balances of copyright
> law
>
> ·         Whether legislative changes are needed to enable new kinds of
> licence (such as Creative Commons)
>
> ·         How Legal Deposit Libraries should deal with DRM issues
>
> ·         How consumers should be protected with regard to existing content
> they have acquired, when a particular DRM system is dropped or goes out of
> business
>
> ·         What exceptions should be created (and how enforced) for people
> with visual and other disabilities
>
> ·         What legal protections there should be against circumvention of
> DRMs
>
> ·         The role of the UK parliament in influencing the global agenda on
> such issues.
>
> Deadline for written evidence is 21st December
>
> Barbara Stratton
>
> Senior Copyright Adviser, CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and
> Information Professionals
>
> Secretary to LACA: the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance, UK
>
> ===References:===
>   1. http://www.apig.org.uk/
>
> _______________________________________________
> A2k mailing list
> A2k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/a2k

Regards,

--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security
IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402
E-Mail jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Registered Email addr with the USPS
Contact Number: 214-244-4827