pages tagged copyrightspwhittonhttps://spwhitton.name//tag/copyright/spwhittonikiwiki2015-11-18T17:09:12ZW3C considering implementing DRM as a standard in HTML5https://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/w3cdrm/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2013-05-04T12:53:00Z
<p><a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/w3c-soul-at-stake">The W3C’s Soul at Stake |
rms</a></p>
<p>I think I’m a bit late on this but I only heard about this yesterday.
rms has it right: this will go against everything W3C stands for.
Openness is more important than the semantic web.</p>
The real purpose of DRMhttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/purposeofdrm/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2013-05-04T12:52:00Z
<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/107429617152575897589/posts/iPmatxBYuj2">An interesting
analysis</a></p>
Nice piece from the Guardian on cyber-activistshttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/guardianmay2013/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2013-05-04T12:50:00Z
<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/04/security-alert-war-in-cyberspace">Security alert: notes from the frontline of the war in cyberspace | The
Guardian</a></p>
EU adds twenty years to music copyrighthttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/beatles/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2011-09-16T15:56:00Z
<p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/no-beatles-for-you-eu-adds-20-years-to-music-copyrights.ars">No Beatles for you! EU adds 20 years to music
copyrights</a></p>
<p>A
<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/kha4t/it_took_three_years_but_the_music_industry_has/c2k9nbs">comment</a>
on reddit:</p>
<blockquote><p>[T]here’s not a chance in hell that any rock and roll will be in the
public domain in 20 years. The music industry now has 20 years to
lobby for an even longer copyright. I suspect we’ll find that
copyright length is actually likely to extend indefinitely. This 20
year extension is nothing, copyright lost its original purpose many
years ago.</p></blockquote>