| September 21, 2018 |
Copyright Office Proposed Fee Schedule U.S. Copyright Office SUMMARY: The Copyright Alliance filed comments with the U.S. Copyright Office highlighting the importance of the registration process and ensuring that fees do not create a barrier that discourages creators from registration, while suggesting avenues the Office might consider to cut its costs and add value to the registration process. |
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| August 20, 2018 |
Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century Hearings Federal Trade Commission SUMMARY: The Copyright Alliance filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission, emphasizing the importance of robust and meaningful copyright protections, especially as consumers shift from business models built around ownership of physical goods to business models built around access to copyrighted works in digital formats. |
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| July 18, 2018 |
U.S. Copyright Office SUMMARY: The Copyright Alliance submitted comments to the U.S. Copyright Office highlighting several recommendations to aid and incentivize authors and copyright owners of serials in registering their works in this group registration option. |
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| July 17, 2018 |
National Telecommunications and Information Administration SUMMARY: The Copyright Alliance filed comments with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration advocating for internet policy priorities that support and acknowledge the importance of strong copyright protection. The comments also urge the NTIA to take steps to ensure that ICANN's WHOIS database is accessible to copyright owners. |
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| July 16, 2018 |
Mandatory Deposit of Electronic-Only Books U.S. Copyright Office SUMMARY: The Copyright Alliance submitted comments to the U.S. Copyright Office, urging the Office not to expand the Interim Rule regarding e-serials to any other class of works until a clear and cohesive digital collections strategy is developed and publicly available, adequate security measures are in place, and the Library’s IT infrastructure is updated to support such an expansion. |
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| January 29, 2018 |
ICANN Community-Proposed Models for GDPR Compliance ICANN SUMMARY: The Copyright Alliance sent a letter to ICANN expressing strong support for a publicly accessible and transparent WHOIS database, as well as for the comments submitted by the Intellectual Property Constituency on the three interim compliance models proposed by ICANN. |
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| December 6, 2017 |
Group Registration of Newspapers U.S. Copyright Office SUMMARY: The Copyright Alliance submitted comments to the U.S. Copyright Office, supporting its proposed changes to improve and modernize the group registration of newspapers process. |
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| November 17, 2017 |
Group Registration of Unpublished Works U.S. Copyright Office SUMMARY: The Copyright Alliance filed comments highlighting the significant burden the proposed rule, which would limit to five the number of individual works that can be registered on a single group registration application, would have on individual creators and copyright owners, sharply reducing the number of works that will be registered |
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| August 14, 2017 |
Multi-Industry Letter on U.S. Leadership in WIPO Secretary of State Tillerson SUMMARY: The Copyright Alliance joined a multi-industry letter to Secretary of State Tillerson on the need to maintain U.S. leadership in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). |
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| July 31, 2017 |
U.S. Copyright Office SUMMARY: The Copyright Alliance filed comments on the revised public draft of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, Third Edition. |