Located within the prestigious Library of Congress, the US Office of the copyright is responsible for defining copyright policy, but also manages the Copyright Catalog, a kind of register that brings together all copyrights filed and in force.
The modernization undertaken mainly relates to this register and the information it offers to the public, with the main objectives of facilitating its consultation, navigation of users and the registration of information. copyrights. The public catalog would also be replaced by a portal, more ergonomic and accessible.
The purchase of licenses, which allows the use of protected works under certain conditions, defined by the rights holders, should also be facilitated by this modernization of the general interface of copyright.
Finally, the US Office of copyright wishes to accelerate the digitization policy, centered on its archives, which stretched from 1870 to 1977.
Amazon, Internet Archive and Warner consulted
In order to facilitate this modernization of the infrastructure of the copyright, the Library of Congress ensured the participation of rights holders and other interested parties, through a committee for the public modernization of the copyright, whose members have just been revealed.
This committee will meet twice a year, until 2024, and will work to publicize the initiative of the Library of Congress, while providing input from outside.
Among the members of this committee, Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive hated by the American edition, Wahaj Chaudhry, in charge of technical development at Amazon, Kathleen Rodriguez, lawyer for the audiovisual group WarnerMedia, or Susan Chertkof, vice-president legal for the Recording Industry Association of America, which brings together American music labels …
The full composition of the committee is located at this address.
Photographie : illustration, Iain Farrell, CC BY-ND 2.0
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