[IP] more on give us a break...! copyright office to require IE?
Begin forwarded message:
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 11, 2005 4:24:53 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: lauren@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] give us a break...! copyright office to require IE?
Dave,
For the U.S. Copyright Office to require Internet Explorer is utterly
ridiculous. But the really interesting question is *why* they
apparently want to require it.
Your average middle school Web page designer knows how to build a
site that works just fine with all popular browsers. If we assume
that the Copyright Office has at least that level of programming
ability, then we're left with the suspicion that perhaps they are
planning to use features that are typically specific to Internet
Explorer (e.g. ActiveX). Of course, it tends to be these very
features that have contributed to the never-ending chain of security
problems plaguing IE, and even has led some organizations to ban
its use.
If the Copyright Office is seriously thinking about requiring the
use of IE for applications, then they're apparently well on their
way to matching the USPTO's competency level. Now that's scary.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@xxxxxxxx or lauren@xxxxxxxxxx or lauren@xxxxxxxx
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR
- People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, EEPI
- Electronic Entertainment Policy Initiative - http://www.eepi.org
Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
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Begin forwarded message:
From: Esther Dyson <edyson@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 11, 2005 3:22:23 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: give us a break...! copyright office to require IE?
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Copyright Office
37 CFR Part 202
[Docket No. RM 2005-9]
Preregistration of Certain Unpublished Copyright Claims
AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ACTION: Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking
________________________________
SUMMARY:
The Copyright Office is supplementing its Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking on preregistration of copyright claims, issued July 22,
2005. That notice proposed procedures to preregister any unpublished
work being prepared for commercial distribution that is in a class of
works determined by the Register of Copyrights to have had a history
of pre-release infringement. Today's notice seeks information as to
whether persons filing the electronic-only preregistration form
prescribed by the Copyright Office will experience difficulties if it
is necessary to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser in order
to preregister a work.
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