- From: Devin Ulibarri <devin@devinulibarri.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:38:29 -0400
- To: public-html-media@w3.org
Hello, My name is Devin Ulibarri and I am a music teacher. I am the chair of the guitar department for the prep school and continuing education at the New England Conservatory as well as an avid and published researcher into how we can "educate better" (to sum things up in short--please see my website for more information). As a active performing musician and educator, I have a vested interest in electronic media, its distribution and its preservation. I just want to let others know that I oppose DRM of any kind--especially in web standards. I wrote an in-depth rationale as to why DRM is of concern to musicians and music educators in the following article, published earlier this year: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/why_should_musicians_care_about_digital_restrictions_management Of particular concern is how DRM blocks the community's (e.g. teachers, students, parents, studying performers) ability to use media under the safe harbor of Fair Use. [[[ On this note, I cannot support any technological "remedies" that attempt to distinguish Fair Use from other use because it could not be done anonymously--it would be an invasion of privacy. ]]] And of even greater concern to me is the criminalization of DRM circumvention, which is why I fully support the EFF's recent lawsuit detailed here: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-lawsuit-takes-dmca-section-1201-research-and-technology-restrictions-violate I found this argument from the cited article particularly compelling: > This ban applies even where people want to make noninfringing fair uses of the materials they are accessing. I implore you to reverse actions taken to implement DRM into web standards. For the sake of music and for the sake of education, please remove DRM from the W3C web standards. Thank you for taking the time to read my thoughts on DRM as a professional musician and educator. Sincerely, Devin -- Devin Ulibarri www.devinulibarri.com/Bio.html
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