[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 73 (Friday, April 17, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 17884]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-8865]
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Copyright Office
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
AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
ACTION: Notice.
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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.
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.
ADDRESSES: Electronic submissions may be made through the Copyright
Office Web site: http://www.copyright.gov/docs/sccr/comments. See the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for acceptable electronic file
formats and filing requirements. See Notice of Inquiry and Request for
Comments; Notice of Public Meeting, 74 FR 13268 (March 26, 2009), for
information on other methods of filing comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paula Pinha, Attorney-Advisor, Office
of Policy and International Affairs. Telephone: (202) 707-7845. E-mail:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY 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 non-required 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.
[FR Doc. E9-8865 Filed 4-16-09; 8:45 am]
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