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Email: irreferential@gmail.com   Website: LibUX   Twitter: @schoeyfield

Michael is a developer and librarian interested in the creative application of user experience design for libraries and the higher-ed web.


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DRM Still Coming to the HTML

In March, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) threw out a nonaggression covenant that would safeguard people from some of the legal risk associated with building DRM (digital rights management) into the open web. This means that the charter for the HTML Media Extensions Working Group—which oversees the Encrypted Media Extensions specification—has been extended through September 2016.