Federal Register: April 17, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 73)
DOCID: fr17ap09-99 FR Doc E9-8865
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Copyright Office, Library of Congress
NOTICE: NOTICES
DOCID: fr17ap09-99
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Notice of Inquiry and Request for Comments on the Topic of Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Other Persons With Disabilities; Notice of Public Meeting
DATES: Initial comments are due by 5 p.m. on April 21, 2009. Reply comments are due by 5 p.m. on May 4, 2009.
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
The United States Copyright Office (Copyright Office) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announce that interested parties may submit electronic comments and reply comments on facilitating access to copyrighted works for the blind or other persons with disabilities.
SUMMARY:
Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Other Persons With Disabilities; Inquiry and Request for Comments; Public Meeting
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
The Copyright Office and the USPTO are adding the option of submitting initial and reply comments electronically to the options for submitting comments that were specified in their previous Notice of March 26, 2009 (74 FR 13268).
A comment page will be posted on the Copyright Office Web site at http://www.copyright.gov/docs/sccr/comments. Approximately one week prior to each comment deadline the comment form will be activated, allowing information to be entered into the required fields and any additional nonrequired fields. All comments submitted electronically must be submitted as an attachment, and must be in a single file in either Adobe Portable Document File (PDF) format that contains searchable, accessible text (not an image); Microsoft Word; WordPerfect; Rich Text Format (RTF); or ASCII text file format. The maximum file size is 6 megabytes (MB). The attached comment must include the name of the commenter. There will be a browse button on the form that will allow commenters to attach the comment file to the form and then to submit the completed form to the Copyright Office.
The Copyright Office and the USPTO intend to post all comments from
this proceeding on the Copyright Office Web site. For comments
submitted electronically, the name and organization of the commenter
from the comment form will be posted together with the entire attached
comment document. Other information from the comment form will not be
posted, but note that if the same information is included in the
attached document it will be available on the Copyright Office Web site as part of the attachment.
Dated: April 14, 2009.
Marybeth Peters,
Register of Copyrights.
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