[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 78 (Wednesday, April 23, 2003)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 19966-19967]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-10039]


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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Copyright Office

37 CFR Part 201

[Docket No. RM 2002-4D]


Notice of Public Hearings: Exemption to Prohibition on 
Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control 
Technologies

AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

ACTION: Notice of Amended Hearing Dates.

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SUMMARY: The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress will be adding 
two new days of public hearings in Washington, DC on the possible 
exemptions to the prohibition against circumvention of technological 
measures that control access to copyrighted works and has cancelled two 
previously scheduled dates.

DATES: Public hearings will be held in Washington, DC on Thursday, May 
1, 2003, beginning at 2 p.m. and on Friday, May 9, 2003, beginning at 
9:30 a.m. Public hearings previously scheduled for April 15 and April 
30, 2003, have been cancelled. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for 
additional information.

ADDRESSES: The Washington, DC public hearings will be held at the 
Postal Rate Commission, 1333 H Street, NW., Third Floor, Washington, 
DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rob Kasunic, Senior Attorney, Office 
of the General Counsel, Copyright GC/I&R, PO Box 70400, Southwest 
Station, Washington, DC 20024. Telephone (202) 707-8380; fax (202); e-
mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As previously announced, see Notice of 
Public Hearings, 68 FR 13652 (March 20, 2003), and Notice of Public 
Hearings, 68 FR 15972 (April 2, 2003),

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the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is conducting public 
hearings in connection with its rulemaking pursuant to section 
1201(a)(1) of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(1), which provides 
that the Librarian of Congress may exempt certain classes of works from 
the prohibition against circumventing a technological measure that 
controls access to a copyrighted work. For a more complete statement of 
the background and purpose of the rulemaking, please see Notice of 
Inquiry, 67 FR 63578 (October 15, 2002), and visit the Copyright 
Office's Web site at: http://www.copyright.gov/1201/.
    The Office is modifying the schedule of public hearings. Hearings 
previously scheduled to take place in Washington, DC on April 15, 2003, 
and April 30, 2003, have been postponed and will now be held on May 1, 
2003, at 2 p.m. and on May 9, 2003, at 9:30 a.m. Both hearings will be 
conducted at the Postal Rate Commission, 1333 H Street, NW., Third 
Floor, Washington, DC. A previously scheduled hearing will also be 
conducted at the Postal Rate Commission on May 2, 2003, at 9:30 a.m. As 
previously announced, hearings will also be conducted at the UCLA 
School of Law in Los Angeles, California on May 14-15, 2003, commencing 
at 9 a.m.

    Dated: April 18, 2003.
David O. Carson,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 03-10039 Filed 4-22-03; 8:45 am]
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