US Congressional Committee to revisit copyright law

This seems pertinent to the TAG's work on publishing and linking:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/24/4263212/house-judiciary-bob-goodlatte-wants-to-review-copyright-law

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.)

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.

Noah

[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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