Re: Forwarded Invite to Discussion of EME at the European Parliament, Oct. 15, 11:00-13:00

On 10/14/2013 1:46 AM, Danny O'Brien wrote:
> Forgiveness retrospectively begged for cross-posting this. The office of
> the Swedish member of European Parliament, Amelia Andersdotter, asked me
> to pass on this invitation onto interested parties within the W3C.
> Hopefully I've hit some reasonable subset of that with this cc: list.

There are several inaccuracies in these postings; both about EME (e.g. 
that it is part of HTML5 - it is not!) as well as about the W3C patent 
policy.  Danny, given that you have close contacts with Amelia's office, 
I'm hopeful that you can help us correct the inaccuracies.

>
> For some context on Andersdotter's current thinking on EME, you can see:
> https://ameliaandersdotter.eu/2013/10/13/drmeme-html5-american-thing
>
> EFF has no connection with the event, but I wish I could attend!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> d.
>
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to invite you to a panel discussion about encrypted media
> extensions in HTML5, a fundamental browser standard. This invitation was
> sent out a couple of days ago, but because of the difficulties in
> forwarding posters and some last minute cancellations a plain-text
> version of the invitation follow.
>
> Official name:*Technology making law*
> Venue: European Parliament, PHS 1 C 047
> Time: October 15th, 11:00-13:00
>
> The issues which will be discussed are
> - What is the consequence of this inclusion on innovation on the Internet?
> - Where is the difference between technology and law? Should technology
> make law or do legislators make law?
> - What are the consequences of introduction of EME in HTML5 on the
> existing European legal framework for copyright and broadcasting?
> - Are there security problems with a "black box" in the browser.
>
> If you wish to participate in this event you can contact Jan Louzeek at
> amelia.andersdotter-office2@ep.europa.eu who will order the badges for
> you on Tuesday in order to get inside of the parliament building. The
> event will additionally be streamed and recorded and its availability
> will be notified at the @exile6e twitter account
> (https://twitter.com/exile6e
> <https://webmail.europarl.europa.eu/OWA/redir.aspx?C=buaTmGO1-0WsGpGaFD70tpTAqQyim9AIMFu8VBGiedUmbuEasApnOVw5-R5C4Qch0BIxzHWJqTg.&URL=https%3a%2f%2ftwitter.com%2fexile6e>).
> In order to get to the parliament you need to provide following
> information: Full name, your ID number and your date of birth.
>
> You are all welcome and I'll be looking forward to see you in our
> interesting debate!
>
> best,
>
> Jan Louzek
>

Received on Tuesday, 15 October 2013 03:46:18 UTC