Copyright Office and USPTO Announce the Availability of Electronic
Comment Page for Proceeding on Facilitating Access to Copyrighted
Works
The Copyright Office and the United States Patent and Trademark
Office (USPTO) announce that parties may file comments electronically
in the proceeding seeking comment on the topic of facilitating access
to copyrighted works for "blind or other persons with disabilities"
in connection with a forthcoming meeting of the Standing Committee on
Copyright and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property
Organization. This announcement follows a Federal Register notice
published on March 26, 2009, as supplemented in a notice published on
April 17, 2009. Comments are due by 5:00 pm on April 21, 2009. Reply
comments are due by 5:00 pm on May 4, 2009. The electronic comment
page is available on the Copyright Office website
www.copyright.gov/docs/sccr/comments/.
(Read further information.)
| 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 |
| August 1 |
Copyright Office fees set to change |
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