The Copyright Office has received a motion to suspend the rulemaking proceeding that would determine whether transmissions of a broadcast signal over a digital communications system such as the Internet are exempt from copyright liability. The motion, filed by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), asks the Office to suspend the rulemaking while the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York considers a lawsuit filed by NAB seeking a declaratory judgment on the same issue. The NAB motion may be found on the Copyright Office Website at http://www.copyright.gov/licensing/motion-suspend.pdf
The Office is not suspending the comment period on the proposed rulemaking, but asks that interested parties who wish to comment on the merits of the motion do so as part of their written comments on the merits of the proposed rulemaking, which are due on April 17. Reply comments are due May 1.
For the complete text of Federal Register announcements, visit the Copyright Office Website at www.copyright.gov/fedreg.
April 10: Beginning of 30-day negotiation period on adjustment of cable statutory license royalty rates (65 FR 10564)
April 11: Due date for comments on rulemaking to determine the scope and application of the definition of a network station under the cable statutory license (65 FR 6946)
April 17: Due date for comments on definition of a "service" (65 FR 14227)
April 17: Due date for comments on suspension of rulemaking proceeding on definition of a "service" (65 FR 17840)
May 1: Due date for reply comments on definition of a "service" (65 FR 14227)
May 1: Due date for reply comments on suspension of rulemaking proceeding on definition of a "service" (65 FR 17840)
May 2-4: Public hearings in Washington, D.C., on the 1201(1)(a) rulemaking on exemption to prohibition on circumvention of copyright protection systems for access control technologies (64 FR 66139; 65 FR 6573). Hearings held at 9:30 a.m. in Room LA-202 of the John Adams Building of the Library of Congress, 110 Second Street, S.E. (65 FR 6573; 65 FR 14505)
May 10: End of 30-day negotiation period on adjustment of cable statutory license royalty rates (65 FR 10564)
May 11: Due date for reply comments on rulemaking to determine the scope and application of the definition of a network station under the cable statutory license (65 FR 6946)
May 11: Written notification of status of settlement negotiations due in Copyright Office (65 FR 10564)
May 18-19: Public hearings at Stanford University on the 1201(1)(a) rulemaking on exemption to prohibition on circumvention of copyright protection systems for access control technologies (64 FR 66139; 65 FR 6573). Hearings held at 9:30 a.m. at Stanford University in Room 290, Stanford Law School, Crown Quadrangle, Stanford, California (65 FR 6573; 65 FR 14505)
June 23: Post-hearing comments due on exemption to prohibition on circumvention of copyright protection systems for access control technologies (1201(1)(a) rulemaking) (65 FR 6573; 65 FR 14505)
July 1: Initiation of 60-day period to file petitions for an arbitration proceeding to set the rates and terms for compulsory licenses under 17 U.S.C. 112(e) and 114(f) for the 2-year period beginning Jan. 1, 2001 (65 FR 2194)
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