Today, the U.S. Copyright Office’s Office of the Chief Economist is releasing a report, The Resilience of Creativity: An Examination of the COVID-19 Impact on Copyright-Reliant Industries and Their Subsequent Recovery. The study examines the impact and subsequent recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of employment, revenues, and creative outputs in copyright-reliant industries. It uses …

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The Library of Congress issued the following press release: The Library of Congress has announced the reauthorization of the Copyright Public Modernization Committee and will accept applications for membership through June 18. The announcement was published in the Federal Register. Established in 2021 for an initial three-year term, the Copyright Public Modernization Committee was created …

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Today, the U.S. Copyright Office and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (collectively the “Offices”) published the results of their joint study on the intellectual property (IP) law and policy implications of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The Offices conducted the study in response to a June 2022 request from then-Chair of the Senate Committee on …

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The U.S. Copyright Office has joined with national and regional intellectual property offices from around the world as well as with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to issue a message in support of women creators and innovators. Read the complete joint statement for International Women’s Day on the United States Patent and Trademark Office website. For …

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The U.S. Copyright Office invites you to register to attend the upcoming online webinar, “Copyright Essentials: Myths Explained” on March 27, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. There is a lot of misleading information out there about copyright. Join us as the Copyright Office discusses what is and is not true when it comes to …

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The Copyright Office has published a notice of proposed rulemaking to create a group option for registering published two-dimensional artwork. To qualify for this option, each work must be a two-dimensional pictorial or graphic work, all created by the same author, and the author must be named as the copyright claimant for each one. The …

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The U.S. Copyright Office has issued a Federal Register notice announcing that it will hold public hearings in the triennial rulemaking proceeding under section 1201 of Title 17. Section 1201 provides legal protections against the circumvention of technological measures used by copyright owners to prevent unauthorized access to or use of their works. Through the …

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Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter welcomes Nancy E. Weiss as the fifth Abraham L. Kaminstein Scholar in residence at the U.S. Copyright Office. Weiss joined the Office on January 14, and will be serving in this position for the coming year. She will focus her activities on advancing scholarship, engagement, and research on the protection, …

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The U.S. Copyright Office invites you to register to attend the upcoming Black History Month online event, “Hip-Hop Beyond 50: Protecting and Promoting Culture,” on February 21, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. Hip-hop, a uniquely American art form rooted in African American culture, marked its official fiftieth anniversary in 2023. The musical genre has …

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The Library of Congress issued the following press release: The Library of Congress will host the sixth bi-annual meeting of the Copyright Public Modernization Committee virtually on Thursday, February 15, at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. In addition to updates from Library and Copyright Office staff on the development of the Enterprise Copyright System, attendees will …

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