- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:39:53 -0500
- To: www-annotation@w3.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Just heard about this. Copy of full news article below. Please excuse the crosspost, it's more re Web annotations I guess, but www-rdf-interest likely to find this interesting too. Has anyone more info, or followed the discussions in detail? It seems to me that annotational approaches (including things like weblog trackbacks) might be a way to make such a mechanism deployable. Though even then I'm skeptical (eg. given the rise of blog comment/trackback spam). How could such a system be sure comments were from the critiqued party, rather than from spammers? http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_Rights/media/ seems to have the background story, as well as a trailer for something else that's looming: "A decision on another text prepared by the Steering Committee on the Mass Media, the draft Declaration on freedom of expression and information in the media in the context of the fight against terrorism, was postponed until January 2005". Dan >From http://press.coe.int/cp/2004/642a(2004).htm [[ Council of Europe promotes the right to reply for online media Strasbourg, 17.12.2004 – The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has adopted a Recommendation on the right to reply in the new media environment. The Recommendation urges member states to extend the right to reply – which until now applied to the written press, radio and television – to online communication services providing information edited in a journalistic manner. The right to reply is a particularly appropriate remedy in the online environment, as contested information can be instantly corrected and replies from those concerned can easily be attached. The Recommendation specifically states that if contested information remains available to the public, and if a right to reply has been granted, a link should be established between the two items in order to draw users’ attention to the fact that the information has triggered a response. N.B. The drafting of the Recommendation by the Steering Committee on the Mass Media was the subject of a widespread public consultation process, which took place via the Council of Europe website. A large number of observations were duly taken into account. The full text of the Recommendation can be found at the following address : http://www.coe.int/T/E/Com/press/News/2004/rec(2004)16.asp ]]
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