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:: RFC :: Copyright Office Seeks Additional Comments for Section 512 Study

Copyright Newsletter: "The U.S. Copyright Office is conducting a study to evaluate the operation of the ISP safe harbor provisions of section 512 of title 17 and has reviewed public input from the first round of written comments and from roundtable participation. You may access the comments and a transcript of the roundtables on the Copyright Office website here.

"To further aid the analysis, the Copyright Office is now soliciting additional written comments on a subset of issues. These include questions relating to the characteristics of the current Internet ecosystem, operation of the current DMCA safe harbor system, potential future evolution of the DMCA safe harbor system, and other developments relevant to this study. The Copyright Office is also seeking submissions of empirical research on any topics that are likely to provide useful data to assess and/or improve the operation of section 512. 

"You may access the Federal Register notice here. Written comments are to be submitted electronically using the regulations.gov system. Specific instructions for submitting comments are available on the Copyright Office website at http://copyright.gov/policy/section512/comment-submission/. 

"Comments must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on February 6, 2017. Empirical research studies must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on March 8, 2017.

:: LOC Section 215 Roundtables in SF May 12

Copyright Office Posts Agenda for Section 512 Roundtables in San Francisco, Announces Room Change
Issue No. 625 - May 06, 2016

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The U.S. Copyright Office has posted the agenda for the section 512 public roundtable taking place on May 12 and 13, 2016 in San Francisco, California. The agenda provides the location and times of the sessions and lists the participants assigned to each session. The agenda is available on the Office website here.


The Office is also announcing a change in the room location for the San Francisco section 512 roundtable. Originally scheduled to take place in courtroom four, the roundtable will now be held in courtroom five of the James R. Browning Courthouse, 95 Seventh Street, San Francisco, California 94103.  


For further information on the section 512 study, please see http://copyright.gov/policy/section512/

:: Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies

"In this final rule, the Librarian of Congress adopts exemptions to the provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) that prohibits circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works, codified in section 1201(a)(1) of title 17 of the United States Code. As required under the statute, the Register of Copyrights, following a public proceeding, submitted a Recommendation concerning proposed exemptions to the Librarian of Congress. After careful consideration, the Librarian adopts final regulations based upon the Register's Recommendation."  Fed Reg Notice.