- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:31:01 -0500
- To: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>, Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, TAG List <www-tag@w3.org>
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 12:58 -0500, Noah Mendelsohn wrote: > On 3/9/2011 12:46 PM, Larry Masinter wrote: [ . . . ] > > What I remember is: > > > > * the TAG would not issue legal opinions > > I'm not sure we made a long term commitment, but I personally don't think > we are competent to issue such opinions, certainly not without first > getting the advice of counsel. What we can do, and might wish to do here, > is to explain to those who do work with the law how the Web is designed, > and what some of the technical, architectural, and to the extent we are > competent to judge, social implications are of using or prohibiting use of > various Web mechanisms. Agreed. And in some cases that could certainly include filing a "friend of the court" document to help *inform* the court's decision making. -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.
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