[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 4, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6636-6637]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-02211]


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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

 Copyright Office

[Docket No. 2014-1]


Reengineering of Recordation of Documents

AGENCY: U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

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SUMMARY: The United States Copyright Office will be holding three 
public meetings in connection with its project of reengineering the 
recordation of documents pertaining to copyrights. A Notice of Inquiry 
in connection with this project was published in the Federal Register 
on January 15, 2014, see Strategic Plan for Recordation of Documents, 
79 FR 2696 (January 15, 2014), and is available at http://www.copyright.gov/docs/recordation. Comments on that Notice of Inquiry 
are due by March 15, 2014. The public meetings will be held following 
the end of that comment period, on March 25, 2014 in Los Angeles, 
California; on March 26, 2014 in Santa Clara County, California; and on 
March 28, 2014 in New York, New York.

DATES: The meetings will be open to the public, but seating to 
participate at the principal discussion table will be limited. Requests 
to participate can be submitted via the Copyright Office Web site at 
http://www.copyright.gov/docs/recordation or sent by email to 
[email protected] by Friday, February 28, 2014, with contents as 
requested below. Persons who are unable to submit a request to 
participate by email should contact Joanna Corwin at 202-707-7827. 
Confirmations of participation will be sent via email by March 5, 2014. 
A tentative general agenda covering all meetings is presented below; a 
detailed agenda for each meeting will be posted by March 18, 2014 at 
http://www.copyright.gov/docs/recordation, and will also be sent via 
email to all confirmed participants.

ADDRESSES: The public meeting in Los Angeles will be held in Room 1314 
(the Bruce Spector Conference Room) of the UCLA School of Law, 405 
Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90095, on Tuesday, March 25, 
2014, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. PST.
    The public meeting in Santa Clara County will be held in the 
Manning Faculty Lounge of the Stanford Law School, 559 Nathan Abbott 
Way, Stanford, California 94305, on Wednesday, March 26, 2014, from 9 
a.m. to 3 p.m. PST.
    The public meeting in New York will be held in the Jerome Greene 
Annex of Columbia Law School, 410 West 117th Street, New York, New York 
11027 on Friday, March 28, 2014, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. EST.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Brauneis, Abraham L. Kaminstein 
Scholar in Residence, by email at [email protected] or telephone 
at 202-707-9536.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 15, 2014, the Copyright Office 
published a Notice of Inquiry on five topics relating to the 
reengineering of the recordation of documents pertaining to copyright. 
See Strategic Plan for Recordation of Documents, 79 FR 2696 (January 
15, 2014), available at http://www.copyright.gov/docs/recordation. 
Discussion at the public meetings will focus on these five topics. They 
include: (1) A guided remitter responsibility model of electronic 
recordation; (2) the use of structured electronic documents that 
contain their own indexing information; (3) the linking of recordation 
records to registration records; (4) the use of standard identifiers, 
and other metadata standards, in recorded documents and the catalog of 
such documents; and (5) potential additional incentives to record 
documents pertaining to copyrights. For further background information 
on these topics, please see the Notice of Inquiry.
    Tentative General Agenda: By March 18, 2014, a detailed agenda for 
each public meeting will be posted at http://www.copyright.gov/docs/recordation, and will also be sent via email to all confirmed 
participants. The tentative general agenda for each meeting is as 
follows: 9:00 a.m.- 9:30 a.m. Introduction and Initial Presentations; 
9:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m. Electronic Recordation Models (with coffee break); 
11:15 a.m.-11:45 a.m. Linking Recordation and Registration Records; 
11:45 a.m.-12:45 a.m. Lunch; 12:45 p.m.-1:45 p.m. Standard Identifiers 
and Metadata Standards; 1:45 p.m.-3 p.m. Additional Incentives to 
Record Documents.
    Requests to Participate. Each request to participate in a public 
meeting should include the name of the requestor; the date and location 
of the public meeting that the requestor would like to attend; a 
statement of whether the requestor would like to limit his or her 
participation to particular portions of the meeting agenda; the 
requestor's organizational affiliation and title; and complete contact 
information, including postal address, email address, and telephone 
number. If the requestor, or the organization that the requestor is 
representing, has submitted comments in response to the Notice of 
Inquiry, the

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request should identify those comments. Requestors who have not 
submitted comments should include a brief summary of their views on the 
topics they wish to discuss.

    Dated: January 29, 2014.
Maria A. Pallante,
Register of Copyrights.
[FR Doc. 2014-02211 Filed 2-3-14; 8:45 am]
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