EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5

Posted on May 31, 2013 by RonMamita — 1 Comment

Draft Proposal from W3C Could Stymie Web Innovation.
May 29, 2013 the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a formal objection to the inclusion of digital rights management (DRM) in HTML5, arguing that a draft proposal from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) could stymie Web innovation and block access to content for people across the globe. The W3C’s HTML working group is creating a technical standard for HTML5, an upcoming revision to the computer language that creates webpages and otherwise displays content online.
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“The W3C needs to develop a policy regarding DRM and similar proposals, or risk having its own work and the future of the Web become buried in the demands of businesses that would rather it never existed in the first place,” said EFF Senior Staff Technologist Seth Schoen. “The EME proposal needs to be seen for what it is: a creation that will shut out open source developers and competition, throw away interoperability, and lock in legacy business models. This is the opposite of the fair use model that gave birth to the Web.”

For EFF’s full Formal Objection:
https://www.eff.org/pages/drm/w3c-formal-objection-html-wg

For more on DRM in HTML5:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/eff-joins-w3c-fight-drm

Contacts:

Danny O’Brien
International Outreach Coordinator
Electronic Frontier Foundation
danny@eff.org

Seth Schoen
Senior Staff Technologist
Electronic Frontier Foundation
seth@eff.org

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