Hearings on Copyright Circumvention

[John Young]

[Federal Register: April 23, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 78)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 19966-19967]

=========================================================
---------------------------------------------------------

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Copyright Office

37 CFR Part 201

[Docket No. RM 2002-4D]


Notice of Public Hearings: Exemption to Prohibition on
Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access 
Control Technologies

AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

ACTION: Notice of Amended Hearing Dates.

---------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress 
will be adding two new days of public hearings in 
Washington, DC on the possible exemptions to the prohibition 
against circumvention of technological measures that control 
access to copyrighted works and has cancelled two previously 
scheduled dates.

DATES: Public hearings will be held in Washington, DC on 
Thursday, May 1, 2003, beginning at 2 p.m. and on Friday, 
May 9, 2003, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Public hearings 
previously scheduled for April 15 and April 30, 2003, have 
been cancelled. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for
additional information.

ADDRESSES: The Washington, DC public hearings will be held 
at the Postal Rate Commission, 1333 H Street, NW., Third 
Floor, Washington, DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rob Kasunic, Senior 
Attorney, Office of the General Counsel, Copyright GC/I&R, 
PO Box 70400, Southwest Station, Washington, DC 20024. 
Telephone (202) 707-8380; fax (202); e-mail rkas at loc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As previously announced, see 
Notice of Public Hearings, 68 FR 13652 (March 20, 2003), 
and Notice of Public Hearings, 68 FR 15972 (April 2, 2003),

[[Page 19967]]

the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is 
conducting public hearings in connection with its rulemaking 
pursuant to section 1201(a)(1) of the Copyright Act, 17 
U.S.C. 1201(a)(1), which provides that the Librarian of 
Congress may exempt certain classes of works from the 
prohibition against circumventing a technological measure 
that controls access to a copyrighted work. For a more 
complete statement of the background and purpose of the 
rulemaking, please see Notice of Inquiry, 67 FR 63578 
(October 15, 2002), and visit the Copyright Office's Web 
site at: <http://www.copyright.gov/1201>http://www.copyright.gov/1201/.

    The Office is modifying the schedule of public 
hearings. Hearings previously scheduled to take place in 
Washington, DC on April 15, 2003, and April 30, 2003, have 
been postponed and will now be held on May 1, 2003, at 
2 p.m. and on May 9, 2003, at 9:30 a.m. Both hearings will 
be conducted at the Postal Rate Commission, 1333 H Street, 
NW., Third Floor, Washington, DC. A previously scheduled 
hearing will also be conducted at the Postal Rate 
Commission on May 2, 2003, at 9:30 a.m. As previously 
announced, hearings will also be conducted at the UCLA
School of Law in Los Angeles, California on May 14-15, 
2003, commencing at 9 a.m.

    Dated: April 18, 2003.
David O. Carson,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 03-10039 Filed 4-22-03; 8:45 am]

---------------------------------------------------------



---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo at metzdowd.com