Re: US Congressional Committee to revisit copyright law

Thanks, Noah!
I'm keeping a file of relevant material should we want to restart our work on P&L.
All the best, Ashok

On 4/25/2013 11:07 AM, Noah Mendelsohn wrote:
> This seems pertinent to the TAG's work on publishing and linking:
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> http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/24/4263212/house-judiciary-bob-goodlatte-wants-to-review-copyright-law
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> Indeed, although I'm not at all sure we're likely to have anything in good enough shape to be useful, this Congressional analysis seems to me in principle just the sort of exercise for which we hoped a TAG finding might provide useful guidance on technology and terminology (for those who haven't followed this, the goal of the TAG's work [1] was not to advocate a particular copyright policy, but among other things to help those who make policy understand the workings of the Web, and to help them understand how the technical community applies particular terminology to try to reduce ambiguities.)
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> On our call of 18 April [2] we assigned ACTION-801 [3] to publish our latest draft as a W3C note, with the understanding that it might or might not be picked up for further work later.
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> Noah
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/products/PublishingLinking.html
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2013/04/18-minutes (not yet available)
> [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/actions/801
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