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

No, Amelia Andersdotter is not correct. DRM and EME are not "American
things". I think it is important not to promote or support any kind of
anti-american "European" nationalism.

Cheers,
Andreas
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Danny O'Brien:
> 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.
> 
> 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 Monday, 14 October 2013 07:43:45 UTC