FW: U.S. Copyright Office, NewsNet Issue 282

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Subject: U.S. Copyright Office, NewsNet Issue 282


U.S. Copyright Office
NewsNet
February 23, 2006
Issue 282

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HEARINGS ON 1201(a)(1) RULEMAKING ANNOUNCED; REPLY COMMENTS ON COPYRIGHT
OFFICE WEBSITE (71 FR 9302)

The Copyright Office is announcing hearings in connection with its Section
1201 rulemaking proceeding to determine whether there are particular classes
of works as to which users are, or are likely to be, adversely affected in
their ability to make noninfringing uses due to the prohibition on
circumvention of access controls. The hearings will be held at Stanford
University in Palo Alto, Calif., on March 23 and March 24, 2006, and at the
Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., on March 29 and 31, 2006, and April 3
and 4, 2006. Requests to testify must be received by March 10, 2006. For
further information, go to the Copyright Office website at
<a href="http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2006/71fr9302.html";>
http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2006/71fr9302.html</a>

Thirty-five reply comments were received by the Copyright Office in the
proceeding and are available on the Copyright Office website. The rulemaking
proceeding is mandated by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which provides
that the Librarian of Congress may exempt certain classes of works from the
prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control
access to copyrighted works. For further information, go to the Copyright
Office website at
<a href="http://www.copyright.gov/1201/index.html";>
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/index.html</a>

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* CALENDAR *

March 1: Due date for payment of cable royalties for the accounting period
beginning on July 1, 2005, and ending on December 31, 2005 (70 FR 58310)

March 10: Deadline for receipt in Copyright Office of requests to testify in
the 1201(a)(1) rulemaking hearings on possible exemptions to prohibition on
circumvention of copyright protection systems for access control technologies
(71 FR 9302)

March 23 and 24: Palo Alto, Calif., hearings on 1201(a)(1) rulemaking (71 FR
9302)

March 29 and 31, and April 3 and 4: Washington, D.C., hearings on 1201(a)(1)
rulemaking (71 FR 9302)

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