EFF Pushes for Support for W3C Adoption of DMCA Lawsuit Covenant
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is still working to “convince” the World Wide Web Consortium to adopt its proposed covenant that would obligate all W3C stakeholders not to file or join a lawsuit against entities under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act…
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and similar laws for circumventing technological protection measures for security research purposes, Special Adviser Cory Doctorow said in a Tuesday blog post. EFF has been pressing W3C to adopt its proposed covenant as a condition for rechartering W3C's HTML Media Extensions Working Group, which is developing a standardized application programming interface for encrypted media extensions (EME). Other W3C stakeholders have previously told us support for the proposal remains minimal (see 1603240055). Doctorow urged EFF supporters to publicize the digital rights group's proposal, noting that W3C “is very interested in the public's ideas about what the Web can and should be.” W3C's EME API development work could potentially add encumbrances 'to the Web, rather than removing them,” Doctorow said. "That's wrong. We think the W3C had the right idea before: when corporations gather under its roof to make standards, they should have to pledge not to use the law to stop legal, legitimate, innovative Web technology.”