Hi George,
I have to agree with J. and David on this one. I don't know
anything about 'preregistering a copyright' either. But I did
feel compelled to write to my Senators on this one. I don't
seriously expect them to get my email, but if they do, I feel that
I have enough experience/knowledge in the field to suggest that
there is no technical reason for this and it is a loss of personal
choice to require one company's product over another's.
Imagine if there was a bill on the table for allowing patents to
only be submitted in a Word .doc file... or only written with a
Bic Pen on Mead Paper. I'd be suspicious about a
behind-the-scenes deal between Mead and the US Patent Registry.
Not very indicative of a 'Free-market Society.'
I work for an online university and am moderately disgusted that
we just moved all student records over to a system that *only*
works with Internet Explorer. We just excluded (or caused
significant inconvenience for) all students who choose to avoid IE
for reasons of convenience, cost and/or security. (I'm one of
them.) I had no power to change this, but maybe I can help catch
someone else from making the same mistake.
YMMV,
Mike
George Koehler wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Short and sweet:
"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."
I am not planning soon to"preregister an unpublished work" to protect
against "pre-release infringement", so it seems that I am not eligible
to comment. I could also easily download and install Internet Explorer
5.2.3 (>= 5.1) for Mac OS X, so I would not "experience difficulties".
- George Koehler
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