[A2k] Paris TACD Meeting: Draft 'understanding' on RMI and TPMs

[James Love]

We will try to pull together something like a draft text by early
next week, maybe tuesday or so....    We are still hoping to get some
more contributions from people in some of the other areas
(biomedicine, scholarly research, software, films).     We should
also think about what such an accord should look like.....  a shorter
text with higher level principles, or something longer and more
detailed and pragmatic content?

Jamie

On Jun 6, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Ludovic Penet wrote:
> Is there a consolidated of the project of accord available somewhere ?
> It would be quite useful to put it on a wiki, even a private one,
> as it
> can be hard to follow all of the interesting discussion that take
> place
> on this list.
>
> What is the target audience of this accord ? What I have read since I
> subscribed to this mailing list is very interesting, but I fear that
> journalists will have lots of difficulties to understand its
> subtleties.
>
> I often had to explain journalists the meaning of the debates on the
> French copyright law these last months. Even the best of them, and
> excepted those who are already convinced by what we promote, have lots
> of difficulties to understand the subtleties and even more
> difficulties
> to translate them in simple words for people having other center of
> interests. Explaining people who do not know what interoperability
> means
> what was important in article 7 of DADVSI at 4am was a very
> interesting
> experience.
>
> So, I think that it would be good to forget all those cryptic acronyms
> and get back to simple principles such as =AB Technology should be used
> only to get an estimation of the number of downloads of music. It
> should
> not control the use of files, especially in the private space. =BB
>
> In fact, I almost stopped talking about interoperability - most
> non-specialists were falling asleep after hearing this strange new
> word.
> I try to stick to non-technical words, such as neutrality, and to
> define
> them with the most simple words - I do not claim I always succeed. ;-)
>
> At least, proposing a very simple text in addition to the full version
> would be very useful.
>
> Sorry for this short interruption in your work. :-)
>
> Ludovic
>
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