Friday, May 23, 2003
[NEWS - W3C decision on patents]
Earlier this month, W3C announced its new patent policy. According to Lawrence Lessig (in his blog), this means that "[the W3C] will not recommend a standard that depends upon a patent that is not offered on a Royalty-Free basis". From the tone of the Director's letter, this seems to have been a compromise between commercial and public interest bodies - an attempt to keep everyone on board.
W3C Patent Policy
letter from Tim Berners-Lee
Lessig's blog
posted by Suzi |
1:04 PM
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
[NEWS - Disney to launch disposable DVDs?]
An example of technology designed to increase control over how content is used: Disney are planning to launch DVDs that will play for 2 days only. This also raises environmental problems (the DVDs will then be binned).
story on Wired
posted by Suzi |
1:20 PM
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