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Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
Supplemental Notice
of Inquiry
Initial
Comments on Classes Eligible for Preregistration
Interim Regulation
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Current Developments
The Copyright Office has issued an interim regulation
on preregistration of unpublished works (read
regulation).
Preregistration service is available
online on the Copyright
Office website.
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Background
This Copyright Office rulemaking concerns regulations for the
preregistration of unpublished works that are being prepared for
commercial distribution in classes of works that the Register of
Copyrights determines have had a history of prerelease infringement.
For more background information, see the Office's Notice
of Proposed Rulemaking published July 22, 2005.
The Office also issued a Supplemental Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking on August 4, seeking comments on whether persons using
the preregistration system will experience difficulties if it is
necessary to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser in order to
preregister a work.
Initial Comments were due on August 22, 2005. Reply comments were
due on September 7, 2005.
The Office received a total of 232 initial
comments. Ten of those comments addressed what
classes of works should be eligible for preregistration due to a
history of prerelease infringement. The remaining comments
addressed the web browser issue.
To assist the Office in compiling as complete a record as
possible to determine what classes of works should be eligible for
preregistration and to assist persons who wish to submit reply comments
on that topic, the Office is
making available online those initial comments that addressed what
classes of works should be eligible for preregistration due to a
history of prerelease infringement.
Copies of all the comments filed in the rulemaking
proceeding are available for viewing and copying in the Public
Information Office of the Copyright Office, located in Room LM-401 of
the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress, 101
Independence Ave SE, Washington, D.C.
Initial Comments on
Classes Eligible for Preregistration
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