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more on give us a break...! copyright office to require IE?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:31:06 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: August 11, 2005 4:24:53 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: lauren () vortex com Subject: Re: [IP] give us a break...! copyright office to require IE? Dave, For the U.S. Copyright Office to require Internet Explorer is utterly ridiculous. But the really interesting question is *why* they apparently want to require it. Your average middle school Web page designer knows how to build a site that works just fine with all popular browsers. If we assume that the Copyright Office has at least that level of programming ability, then we're left with the suspicion that perhaps they are planning to use features that are typically specific to Internet Explorer (e.g. ActiveX). Of course, it tends to be these very features that have contributed to the never-ending chain of security problems plaguing IE, and even has led some organizations to ban its use. If the Copyright Office is seriously thinking about requiring the use of IE for applications, then they're apparently well on their way to matching the USPTO's competency level. Now that's scary. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () pfir org or lauren () vortex com or lauren () eepi org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, EEPI - Electronic Entertainment Policy Initiative - http://www.eepi.org Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com - - -
Begin forwarded message: From: Esther Dyson <edyson () gmail com> Date: August 11, 2005 3:22:23 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: give us a break...! copyright office to require IE? . LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Copyright Office 37 CFR Part 202 [Docket No. RM 2005-9] Preregistration of Certain Unpublished Copyright Claims AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of Congress ACTION: Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking ________________________________ SUMMARY: The Copyright Office is supplementing its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on preregistration of copyright claims, issued July 22, 2005. That notice proposed procedures to preregister any unpublished work being prepared for commercial distribution that is in a class of works determined by the Register of Copyrights to have had a history of pre-release infringement. Today's notice seeks information as to whether persons filing the electronic-only preregistration form prescribed by the Copyright Office will experience difficulties if it is necessary to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser in order to preregister a work.
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