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Dear C4C Signatories

We would like to bring to your attention that the U.S. Department of
Commerce Internet Policy Task Force (IPTF) released a Green Paper on
Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy.
The Green Paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of current
policy related to copyright and the Internet, and to identify
important issues that call for attention and development of solutions.

More background can be found in this blog post from C4C signatory
CCIA, which remarks that “the report’s descriptive components are
worthy reading, sourced with the intensity generally reserved for
footnote-fetishizing legal academia”, but that “the study’s policy
recommendations on online infringement, however, do not all reflect
the same insight”. We would also like to point you to KEI’s blog post,
another C4C signatory.

In the Green Paper, the IPTF proposes the following actions:


·       Establishing a multistakeholder dialogue on improving the
operation of the notice and takedown system under the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

·       Soliciting public comment and convening roundtables on:

o   The legal framework for the creation of remixes;

o   The relevance and scope of the first sale doctrine in the digital
environment;

o   The application of statutory damages in the context of individual
file-sharers and secondary liability for large-scale online
infringement; and,

o   The appropriate role for the government, if any, to help improve
the online licensing environment, including access to comprehensive
public and private databases of rights information.



Have a nice day!

Best regards



Herman



Policy Advisor @ N-square Consulting



Mobile +32 478 96 67 01


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