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The Restricted Media Community Group helps the community to discuss issues around technologies related to protected content. The debates articulates around a few axis:

• Allowing creators to distribute their content online in a form which they find suitable
• Mechanisms regulating the distribution of content from strong to soft restrictions

Most of the discussions happens on the mailing-list and are revolving a common set of issues

Relevant documents and links

Add links here to documents and links relevant to W3C's consideration of access control, copy control, and the Open Web. When discussing inside this Community Group, we refer to this Glossary of Terms.

W3C documents

• Encrypted Media Extensions draft
  • EME mailing list
  • EME bugzilla
• HTML WG proposed updated charter and homepage
• W3C blog post

• Privacy activity and Interest Group (PING)

Additional references

• What I wish Tim Berners-Lee understood about DRM, Cory Doctorow
• The Imperfect is the Enemy of the Good: Anticircumvention Versus Open User Innovation, Wendy Seltzer
• EFF's Formal Objection to the HTML WG Charter, Electronic Frontier Foundatoin

Open Standards: Definitions

• Open Standards Requirement for Software, Open Source Initiative (OSI)
• Open Standards Requirements for Software - Rationale, Open Source Initiative (OSI)
• Open Standards, Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)

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