The U.S. Department of Commerce announced Wednesday that its Internet Policy Task Force will hold a public meeting to discuss copyright policy issues raised in its recently released green paper, “Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy” [PDF]. The task force is also soliciting public comments on how it should improve the current copyright framework for stakeholders, consumers, and national economic goals.
In the report released in July—which the Commerce Department says represents the most thorough and comprehensive analysis of digital copyright policy issued by any administration since 1995—the task force proposes addressing five copyright policy issues:
- How to improve the operation of the notice and takedown system for removing infringing content from the Internet under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
- The legal framework for the creation of remixes.
- The relevance and scope of the first-sale doctrine in the digital environment.
- The application of statutory damages in the contexts of individual file sharers and of secondary liability for large-scale infringement.
- The appropriate role for the government, if any, to help improve the online licensing environment, including access to comprehensive databases of rights information.
The meeting, to be held on October 30, 2013, in Washington, D.C., will be open to members of the public on a first-come, first-served basis and also will be webcast on the Internet Policy Task Force website and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website.
Additional information can be found in the Federal Register Notice.
