[A2k] Paris TACD Meeting: Draft 2 on RMI and TPMs

[James Love]

I have a general concern about RMI, outside of entertainment goods
like music performances, movies and computer games.  It seems to me
that the tracking of access to works, as well as copying and
forwarding of works, presents one set of public policy/social issues
in the area of entertainment goods, and other in the context of other
literary works like fiction, memorandums about the Iraq war, EC/
Pharma position statements on the medical R&D treaty, Pfizer's
internal strategy memos, US State Department cables to Thailand,
educational materials about HIV, and a million other areas where it
is quite dangerous for society to introduce (as we are) technologies
to track the movement of knowledge goods, not to mention the impact
of such technologies on Berne/TRIPS three step tests in terms of
pushing pay for use paradigms.

Isn't this a big problem?   If we want to push one approach in music,
do we end up with something that we don't want outside of music, that
is far more important?  How can we express or deal with this issue?

Jamie

On Jun 11, 2006, at 7:44 AM, Ludovic P=E9net wrote:

> Le dimanche 11 juin 2006 =E0 13:08 +0200, Herv=E9 Le Crosnier a =E9crit :
>>
>> =09Hello Nick,
>>
>> =09You've done a good job that help clarifying the issues.
>>
>> =09I have two questions with your text :
>>
>> =09- why don't you insert something special about libraries.
>> =09  I think it's really important because libraries are
>> =09  non-commercial intermediaries that need more openess
>> =09  to fullfill their mission than any other consumer.
>>
>> =09- what is the statute of "The Paris Accord" ? Do we have
>> =09  to write a long and precise text (but time seems short)
>> =09  or do we need to pinpoint some problem and let open
>> =09  the conclusions ?
>>
>> =09That's not only for this part of the text. I really fear that
>> =09we only have one week to write it...
>>
>> =09I'm waiting for the consolidated version of Jamie on thrusday
>> =09to translate in French, for the french participants (who
>> =09barely read english, that is) can add their onw views...
>> =09Who will also do this job ? (Manon, Philippe, Ludovic, Julien ?)
>>
>> Herv=E9 Le Crosnier
> I also think that you did a great job.
>
> Just one more point.
>
> I have been sensibilized to issues for people with disabilities during
> the examination of the DADVSI law at the french congress. I think that
> they are both very important and very hard to oppose. For instance,
> young blind people explained me last wednesday how new DRM are
> blocking
> their specific tools, excluding them even more from the information
> society.
>
> So, I propose to add a very generic statement such as :
> =AB RMI design should take in account issues specific to people with
> disabilities. It should not block in any way their legimitame
> access to
> content. =BB
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ludovic
>
>

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