[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 94 (Thursday, May 15, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 27938]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-11208]


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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

 Copyright Office

[Docket No. 2014-03]


Music Licensing Study

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

ACTION: Notice of extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The United States Copyright Office is extending the deadline 
for public comments regarding the effectiveness of existing methods of 
licensing music that were solicited in a March 17, 2014 Notice of 
Inquiry. See 78 FR 14739 (Mar. 17, 2014).

DATES: Written comments are now due on or before May 23, 2014. The 
deadline for submitting requests to participate in the public 
roundtables on music licensing to be held in June 2014 in Nashville, 
Los Angeles, and New York remains May 20, 2014.

ADDRESSES: All comments shall be submitted electronically. A comment 
page containing a comment form is posted on the Office Web site at 
http://www.copyright.gov/docs/musiclicensingstudy. The Web site 
interface requires commenting parties to complete a form specifying 
their name and organization, as applicable, and to upload comments as 
an attachment via a browser button. To meet accessibility standards, 
commenting parties must upload comments in a single file not to exceed 
six megabytes (MB) in one of the following formats: The Portable 
Document File (PDF) format that contains searchable, accessible text 
(not an image); Microsoft Word; WordPerfect; Rich Text Format (RTF); or 
ASCII text file format (not a scanned document). The form and face of 
the comments must include both the name of the submitter and 
organization. The Office will post the comments publicly on the 
Office's Web site in the form that they are received, along with 
associated names and organizations. If electronic submission of 
comments is not feasible, please contact the Office at 202-707-8350 for 
special instructions.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jacqueline C. Charlesworth, General 
Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights, by email at 
[email protected] or by telephone at 202-707-8350; or Sarang V. 
Damle, Special Advisor to the General Counsel, by email at [email protected] 
or by telephone at 202-707-8350.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background

    The U.S. Copyright Office is conducting a study to assess the 
effectiveness of current methods for licensing sound recordings and 
musical works. The Office published a Notice of Inquiry, seeking 
written comments on twenty-four subjects concerning the current 
environment in which music is licensed. See 78 FR 14739 (Mar. 17, 
2014). The Office also published a Notice announcing public roundtables 
to be held in June 2014 in Nashville, Los Angeles, and New York. See 79 
FR 25626 (May 5, 2014).
    To ensure commenters have sufficient time to address the topics set 
forth in the March 2014 Notice of Inquiry, the Office is extending the 
time for filing written comments from May 16, 2014 to May 23, 2014. 
Note that the deadline for submitting requests to participate in the 
public roundtables on music licensing remains May 20, 2014.

    Dated: May 12, 2014.
Jacqueline C. Charlesworth,
General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights.
[FR Doc. 2014-11208 Filed 5-14-14; 8:45 am]
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