  
			
			Copyright Office and USPTO Seek Comment and Announce Public  Meeting on Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works 
			              The Copyright Office and the United States  Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) seek comment on the topic of facilitating  access to copyrighted works for “blind or persons with other disabilities” in  connection with a forthcoming meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright  and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Interested  parties are invited to submit comments on the topics outlined in the  supplementary information section of the Federal Register notice. Comments are  due April 21, 2009. Reply comments are due May 4, 2009. The Copyright Office  and USPTO also announce a public meeting on the same topic. The public meeting  will take place May 18, 2009, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.  The process for submitting requests to attend and observe, or to participate  in, the meeting, as well as the agenda, will be published on the Copyright  Office website at  www.copyright.gov no later than  April 8, 2009. (Read  further          information.)
			   
                  
                 
                
                  
                    April 3  | 
                     Deadline to submit requests to testify in  public hearings on possible exemptions to prohibition against circumvention of  technological measures that control access to copyrighted works  | 
                   
                  
                    | April 21 | 
                    Deadline for comments on facilitating access to copyrighted works for the blind or persons with other disabilities  | 
                   
                  
                    May 1  | 
                     Public hearing in Palo Alto, California, on  possible exemptions to prohibition against circumvention of technological  measures that control access to copyrighted works  | 
                   
                  
                    May 4  | 
                    Due date for reply comments on facilitating access to  copyrighted works for the blind or persons with other disabilities  | 
                   
                  
                    May 6, 7, 8   | 
                    Public hearings in Washington, D.C.,  on possible exemptions to prohibition against circumvention of technological  measures that control access to copyrighted works  | 
                   
                  
                    | May 18 | 
                    Public meeting in Washington, D.C., on facilitating access  to copyrighted works for the blind or persons with other disabilities  | 
                   
                 
               
               
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