more on give us a break...! copyright office to require IE?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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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

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> 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?
>
>
> .
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>
> 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 Preregistration of Certain Unpublished Copyright Claims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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