Federal Copyright Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings: Comments
Comments in response to this Notice of Inquiry were due January 31, 2011. The Office has received 58 separate comments from 57 commenters, which are posted below. In addition, the Office has received 231 copies of a form letter originalted by Grooveshark. While some copies of this letter have been revised slightly by the sender, all are substantially identical. They have been gathered together in a single PDF file, posted as document
#58 below. The form letter as originally drafted is available at
http://blog.grooveshark.com/post/2519052858/help-grooveshark-stay-alive
Document |
Organization/Comment |
1 |
Michael Fitzgerald |
2 |
Bill Hebden |
3 |
Courtney Chartier |
4 |
Phil Gries |
5 |
R. Fay |
6 |
Susan Hoffius |
7a |
Starr Gennett Foundation |
7b |
David J. Fulton, Starr-Gennett Foundation |
8 |
Aaron A. Fox |
9 |
Al Schlachtmeyer |
10 |
Alison Stankrauff |
11 |
Tanya Merchant |
12 |
Benjamin Irwin |
13 |
Darren Walters |
14 |
Jean Dickson |
15 |
Zoe Waldron |
16 |
Deborah Campana |
17 |
Dale Cockrell |
18 |
Jodi Allison-Bunnell |
19 |
Michael Burch |
20 |
Lynn Hooker |
21 |
Cristobal Diaz Ayala |
22 |
Cynthia Varady |
23 |
Henry Sapoznik |
24 |
Peggy Davis |
25 |
Sherry L. Mayrent |
26 |
Abigail O. Garnett |
27 |
Brian Lee Corber |
28 |
Doug Pomeroy |
29 |
Mark Slobin |
30 |
Demetrio Wazar |
31 |
Geoff Canyon |
32 |
Louis Zell |
33 |
Julie King |
34 |
Max Cantor |
35 |
Nathan Lambson |
36 |
Maurice Saylor |
37 |
Robert C. Lancefield |
38 |
Nicola Battista |
39 |
Helen R. Tibbo, Society of American Archivists |
40 |
Rachel Evangeline Barham |
41 |
Thad E. Garrett |
42 |
Tim Brooks, Association of Recorded Sound Collections |
43 |
Winston Barham |
44 |
Eric Harbeson, Music Library Association |
45 |
K. Matthew Dames, Syracuse University |
46 |
Kenneth Crews |
47 |
Lizabeth A. Wilson, University of Washington Libraries |
48 |
Patrick Feaster |
49 |
Patrick Loughney, Library of Congress |
50 |
Randy Silverman & Alison Mower, University of Utah |
51 |
Recording Industry Association of America and American Association of Independent Music |
52 |
Stephanie M. Roach |
53 |
Steven R. Englund, Sound Exchange, Inc. |
54 |
Abigail Phillips, Electronic Freedom Foundation |
55 |
Joel Brian Kellum - Comment 1 and Comment 2 |
56 |
Alex Cummings |
57 |
Grooveshark form letter |
58 |
Steven Smolian |
All submissions have been posted.