[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 116 (Tuesday, June 17, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34497-34498]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-14092]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Telecommunications and Information Administration


Notice of Public Meetings on Copyright Policy Topics

AGENCY: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Public Roundtables; Address Updates.

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SUMMARY: On April 18, 2014, Department of Commerce's Internet Policy 
Task Force (Task Force) announced its plan to hold four roundtables in 
cities across the United States in May, June, and July 2014 regarding 
the topics identified below, as set forth in the Green Paper on 
Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy 
(Green Paper). This notice announces the location of the third meeting 
to be held in Los Angeles, California on July 29, 2014, and provides an 
update to the location of the fourth meeting to be held in Berkeley, 
California on July 30, 2014.

DATES: The third roundtable will be held in Los Angeles, California on 
July 29, 2014. The fourth roundtable will be held in Berkeley, 
California on July 30, 2014. Both roundtables will begin at 8:30 a.m. 
Requests to participate and observe are due three weeks in advance of 
each of the respective roundtables on the following dates, by 5:00 p.m. 
E.S.T.: July 8, 2014 for the Los Angeles roundtable, and July 9, 2014 
for the Berkeley roundtable. The agendas and webcast information will 
be available a week before each of the roundtables on the Task Force 
Web site, http://www.ntia.doc.gov/internetpolicytaskforce and the 
USPTO's Web site, http://www.uspto.gov/ip/global/copyrights/index.jsp.

ADDRESSES: The Task Force will hold the third roundtable on July 29, 
2014 at Loyola Law School, Walter J. Lack Reading Room, 919 Albany 
Street, Los Angeles, California 90015. The Task force will hold the 
fourth roundtable on July 30, 2014, at UC Berkeley School of Law, Boalt 
Hall, Booth Auditorium, 215 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California 94720.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information regarding the 
roundtables, please contact Ann Chaitovitz, Ben Golant, or Hollis 
Robinson, Office of Policy and International Affairs, United States 
Patent and Trademark Office, Madison Building, 600 Dulany Street, 
Alexandria, VA 22314; telephone (571) 272-9300. Email questions should 
be sent to [email protected]. Sign up for the USPTO's 
Copyright Alert subscription at enews.uspto.gov to receive updates 
about the roundtables. Please direct all media inquiries to the Office 
of the Chief Communications Officer, USPTO, at (571) 272-8400.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Task Force's Green Paper on Copyright 
Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy (Green 
Paper), released on July 31, 2013, and in its later Request for 
Comments issued on October 3, 2013, the Task Force stated its intention 
to convene roundtables on certain copyright topics, namely: the legal 
framework for the creation of remixes, the relevance and scope of the 
first sale doctrine in the digital environment, and the appropriate 
calibration of statutory damages in the contexts of individual file 
sharers and of secondary liability for large-scale infringement. On 
April 16, 2014, the Task Force announced its plans to hold four 
roundtables in Nashville, Tennessee on May 21, 2014; Cambridge, 
Massachusetts on June 25, 2014; Los Angeles, California on July 29, 
2014; and Berkeley, California on July 30, 2014.\1\ Through this 
Notice, the Task Force provides the address for the roundtable in Los 
Angeles, California, and updates the address for the roundtable in 
Berkeley, California.
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    \1\ See Department of Commerce (Patent and Trademark Office and 
National Telecommunications and Information Administration), Notice 
of Public Roundtables, 79 FR 21439 (April 16, 2014), available at 
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/copyright_issues_notice_of_public_roundtables.pdf.
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    Interested parties may request to participate in, or to observe, 
the roundtable discussions by submitting a request form, available at 
https://www.signup4.net/public/ap.aspx?EID=THEG32E&OID=130.\2\ 
Participation will entail responding to questions from Task Force 
members and engaging with other participants, whereas observation will 
entail listening to, but not participating in, the discussions, 
although there will be time for observers to comment at the end of the 
discussion. Parties who wish to attend roundtables in multiple 
locations should submit a separate request form for each location. When 
completing request forms, interested parties should identify the 
particular discussion or discussions they wish to participate in or 
observe. The Task Force will respond to the requests to participate or 
observe two weeks before the day the roundtable will be held. Please 
note that the Task Force may not be able to grant all requests but will 
seek to maximize participation to the extent possible.
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    \2\ Individuals who are unable to send requests via the Web site 
should contact Hollis Robinson at (571) 272-9300 to make alternative 
arrangements for submission of their requests to participate.
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    Participants and observers should arrive at least one-half hour 
prior to the start of the roundtable and must present valid government-
issued photo identification upon arrival. The Task Force will provide 
additional information on directions and parking in the agendas for 
each of the roundtables.
    The roundtables will be webcast. A transcription service will also 
be present. The transcriptions will be made available on both the Task 
Force and USPTO Web sites after each roundtable.
    The roundtables will be physically accessible to people with 
disabilities. Individuals requiring accommodation, such as sign 
language interpretation, real-time captioning of the webcast or other 
ancillary aids, should

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communicate their needs to Hollis Robinson, Office of Policy and 
International Affairs, United States Patent and Trademark Office, 
Madison Building, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA 22314; telephone 
(571) 272-9300; email [email protected], at least seven (7) 
business days prior to the roundtable.

    Dated: June 12, 2014.
Kathy Smith,
Chief Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2014-14092 Filed 6-16-14; 8:45 am]
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