give us a break...! copyright office to require IE?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Esther Dyson <edyson () gmail com>
Date: August 11, 2005 3:22:23 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: give us a break...! copyright office to require IE?


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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Copyright Office

37 CFR Part 202
[Docket No. RM 2005-9]
Preregistration of Certain Unpublished Copyright Claims

AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of Congress

ACTION: Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking
________________________________

SUMMARY:

The Copyright Office is supplementing its Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking on preregistration of copyright claims, issued July 22,
2005. That notice proposed procedures to preregister any unpublished
work being prepared for commercial distribution that is in a class of
works determined by the Register of Copyrights to have had a history
of pre-release infringement. Today's notice seeks information as to
whether persons filing the electronic-only preregistration form
prescribed by the Copyright Office will experience difficulties if it
is necessary to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser in order
to preregister a work.
DATES:

Comments are due no later than August 22, 2005. Reply comments are due
no later than September 7, 2005.
ADDRESSES:

If hand delivered by a private party, an original and five copies of
any comment should be brought to Room LM-401 of the James Madison
Memorial Building between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and the envelope should
be addressed as follows: Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Copyright
Office, James Madison Memorial Building, Room LM-401, 101 Independence
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20559-6000. If hand delivered by a
commercial courier, an original and five copies of any comment must be
delivered to the Congressional Courier Acceptance Site located at
Second and D Streets, NE., Washington, DC, between 8:30 a.m. and 4
p.m. The envelope should be addressed as follows: Copyright Office
General Counsel, Room LM-403, James Madison Memorial Building, 101
Independence Avenue, SE., Washington, DC. If sent by mail, an original
and five copies of any comment should be addressed to: Copyright GC/
I&R, P.O. Box 70400, Southwest Station, Washington, DC 20024-0400.
Comments may not be delivered by means of overnight delivery services
such as Federal Express, United Parcel Service, etc., due to delays in
processing receipt of such deliveries.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David O. Carson, General Counsel, or Charlotte Douglass, Principal
Legal Advisor, P.O. Box 70400, Washington, DC 20024-0400, Telephone
(202) 707-8380. Telefax: (202) 707-8366.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

In accordance with the Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of
2005 (the ART Act), Title I of the Family Entertainment and Copyright
Act, Pub. L. No. 109-9 , 119 Stat. 218, the Copyright Office recently
proposed implementing regulations for preregistration of eligible
copyright claims. 70 FR 42286 (July 22, 2005). To be eligible for
preregistration, a work must be unpublished, in the process of being
prepared for commercial distribution, and in a class of works that the
Register of Copyrights determines has had a history of copyright
infringement.

Section 104 of the ART Act directs that preregistration procedures
must be in place by October 24, 2005. 17 U.S.C. 408(f)(1). To comply
with this time frame and to facilitate efficient processing of
preregistration claims, inter alia, the proposed rule calls for filing
such claims by electronic means only. At this point in the process of

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developing the Copyright Office's system for online preregistration,
it is not entirely clear whether the system will be compatible with
web browsers other than Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5.1 and
higher. Filers of preregistration applications will be able to employ
these Internet Explorer browsers successfully. Support for Netscape
7.2, Firefox 1.0.3, and Mozilla 1.7.7 is planned but will not be
available when preregistration goes into effect. Present users of
these browsers may experience problems when filing claims.

In order to ensure that preregistration can be implemented in a
smoothly functioning and timely manner, the Office now seeks comments
that will assist it in determining whether any eligible parties will
be prevented from preregistering a claim due to browser requirements
of the preregistration system. Therefore, this notice seeks
information whether any potential preregistration filers would have
difficulties using Internet Explorer (version 5.1 or higher) to file
preregistration claims, and if so, why. More generally, in the
interest of achieving support for browsers in the Office's
preregistration processing environment, this notice inquires whether
(and why) an eligible party who anticipates preregistering a claim on
the electronic-only form will not be able to use Internet Explorer to
do so, or will choose not to preregister if it is necessary to use
Internet Explorer.

The Office requests that responses to this supplemental notice of
inquiry be made part of the responders' comments on the July 22nd
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Whether or not accompanied by comments
on the proposed rule, the response to this notice of inquiry should be
submitted by the due dates for comment on the Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking, i.e., no later than August 22, 2005, with reply comments
due no later than September 7, 2005.

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