[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 17 (Friday, January 27, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 8629]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-01888]


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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

U.S. Copyright Office

[Docket No. 2015-7]


Section 512 Study: Extension of Comment Period

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

ACTION: Extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The United States Copyright Office is extending the deadlines 
for the submission of written comments and empirical research studies 
in response to its November 8, 2016 request for additional comments 
(``Second Notice'') regarding the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 
(``DMCA'') safe harbor provisions contained in 17 U.S.C. 512.

DATES: Written responses to the questions outlined in the Second Notice 
are now due no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on February 21, 2017. 
Empirical research studies are due no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern 
Time on March 22, 2017.

ADDRESSES: For reasons of government efficiency, the Copyright Office 
is using the regulations.gov system for the submission and posting of 
public comments in this proceeding. All comments are therefore to be 
submitted electronically through regulations.gov. Specific instructions 
for submitting comments are available on the Copyright Office Web site 
at http://copyright.gov/policy/section512/comment-submission/. If 
electronic submission of comments is not feasible due to lack of access 
to a computer and/or the Internet, please contact the Office, using the 
contact information below, for special instructions.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cindy Abramson, Assistant General 
Counsel, by email at [email protected] or by telephone at 202-707-8350; 
Kevin Amer, Senior Counsel for Policy and International Affairs, by 
email at [email protected] or by telephone at 202-707-8350; or Kimberley 
Isbell, Senior Counsel for Policy and International Affairs, by email 
at [email protected] or by telephone at 202-707-8350.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The United States Copyright Office is 
conducting a study to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of the DMCA 
safe harbor provisions contained in 17 U.S.C. 512. The Office published 
an initial Notice of Inquiry on December 31, 2015, seeking written 
comments to thirty questions covering eight categories of topics.\1\ 
After receiving more than 92,000 responses and holding public 
roundtables, the Office published a Second Notice on November 8, 
2016.\2\ The Second Notice sought responses to sixteen additional 
questions and also invited parties to submit empirical research studies 
assessing issues related to the operation of the safe harbor provisions 
on a quantitative or qualitative basis. To ensure that commenters have 
sufficient time to respond, the Office is extending the deadline for 
submission of comments in response to the questions provided in the 
Second Notice to February 21, 2017, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, and the 
deadline for submission of empirical research studies to March 22, 
2017, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Please note that in light of the 
expected time frame for this study, the Office is unlikely to grant 
further extensions for these submissions.
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    \1\ See Section 512 Study: Notice and Request for Public 
Comment, 80 FR 81682 (Dec. 31, 2015).
    \2\ See Section 512 Study: Request for Additional Comments, 81 
FR 78636 (Nov. 8, 2016).

    Dated: January 24, 2017.
Karyn Temple Claggett
Acting Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright 
Office.
[FR Doc. 2017-01888 Filed 1-26-17; 8:45 am]
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