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1Study on the Right of Making Available; Request 

for Additional Comments, 79 FR 41309 (July 15, 

2014). 

Total Responses: 1,643. 

Average Time per Response: 60 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1,643 

hours. 

Total Other Burden Cost: $0. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this request will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval; they 

will also become a matter of public 

record. 

James H. Moore, Jr., 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. 

Department of Labor. 

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Copyright Office 

[Docket No. 2014–03] 

Music Licensing Study 

AGENCY: U.S. Copyright Office, Library 

of Congress. 

ACTION: Notice of extension of comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The United States Copyright 

Office is extending the deadline for 

public comments regarding the 

effectiveness of existing methods of 

licensing music that were solicited in a 

July 23, 2014 Notice of Inquiry. See 79 

FR 42833 (July 23, 2014). 

DATES: Written comments are now due 

on or before September 12, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: All comments shall be 

submitted electronically. A comment 

page containing a comment form is 

posted on the Office Web site at 

http://www.copyright.gov/docs/

musiclicensingstudy. The Web site 

interface requires commenting parties to 

complete a form specifying their name 

and organization, as applicable, and to 

upload comments as an attachment via 

a browser button. To meet accessibility 

standards, commenting parties must 

upload comments in a single file not to 

exceed six megabytes (MB) in one of the 

following formats: The 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 (not a scanned 

document). The form and face of the 

comments must include both the name 

of the submitter and organization. The 

Office will post the comments publicly 

on the Office’s Web site in the form that 

they are received, along with associated 

names and organizations. If electronic 

submission of comments is not feasible, 

please contact the Office at 202–707– 

8350 for special instructions. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jacqueline C. Charlesworth, General 

Counsel and Associate Register of 

Copyrights, by email at jcharlesworth@

loc.gov or by telephone at 202–707– 

8350; or Sarang V. Damle, Special 

Advisor to the General Counsel, by 

email at sdam@loc.gov or by telephone 

at 202–707–8350. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The U.S. Copyright Office is 

conducting a study to assess the 

effectiveness of current methods for 

licensing sound recordings and musical 

works. The Office received written 

comments responding to an initial 

Notice of Inquiry, and held three public 

roundtables in Nashville, Los Angeles 

and New York. See 78 FR 13739 (Mar. 

17, 2014); 79 FR 25626 (May 5, 2014). 

On July 23, 2014, the Office published 

a second Notice of Inquiry, seeking 

additional written comments on ten 

subjects concerning the music licensing 

environment. 79 FR 42833. To ensure 

commenters have sufficient time to 

address the topics set forth in the July 

2014 Notice of Inquiry, the Office is 

extending the time for filing written 

comments from August 22, 2014 to 

September 12, 2014. 

Dated: July 28, 2014. 

Maria A. Pallante, 

Register of Copyrights. 

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

U.S. Copyright Office 

[Docket No. 2014–02] 

Extension of Comment Period; Study 

on the Right of Making Available; 

Request for Additional Comments 

AGENCY: U.S. Copyright Office, Library 

of Congress. 

ACTION: Extension of comment period. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Copyright Office is 

extending the deadline for public 

comments that address topics listed in 

the Office’s July 15, 2014 Request for 

Additional Comments. 

DATES: Comments are now due no later 

than 5:00 p.m. EDT on September 15, 

2014. 

ADDRESSES: All comments should be 

submitted electronically. To submit 

comments, please visit http://

www.copyright.gov/docs/making_

available/. The Web site interface 

requires submitters to complete a form 

specifying name and organization, as 

applicable, and to upload comments as 

an attachment via a browser button. To 

meet accessibility standards, 

commenting parties must upload 

comments in a single file not to exceed 

six megabytes (‘‘MB’’) in one of the 

following formats: a 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 (not a scanned document). 

The form and face of the comments 

must include both the name of the 

submitter and organization. The Office 

will post all comments publicly on the 

Office’s Web site exactly as they are 

received, along with names and 

organizations. If electronic submission 

of comments is not feasible, please 

contact the Office at 202–707–1027 for 

special instructions. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maria Strong, Senior Counsel for Policy 

and International Affairs, by telephone 

at 202–707–1027 or by email at 

mstrong@loc.gov, or Kevin Amer, 

Counsel for Policy and International 

Affairs, by telephone at 202–707–1027 

or by email at kamer@loc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 

15, 2014, the Copyright Office issued a 

Request for Additional Comments on 

the state of U.S. law recognizing and 

protecting ‘‘making available’’ and 

‘‘communication to the public’’ rights 

for copyright holders.1 The Request 

listed several questions for interested 

members of the public to address in the 

context of U.S. implementation of the 

WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the 

WIPO Performances and Phonograms 

Treaty (WPPT) rights of ‘‘making 

available’’ and ‘‘communication to the 

public,’’ and also invited views on 

specific issues raised during the public 

roundtable held in Washington, DC on 

May 5, 2014. To provide sufficient time 

for commenters to respond, the Office is 

extending the time for filing additional 

comments from August 14, 2014 to 

September 15, 2014. 

Dated: July 28, 2014. 

Karyn A. Temple Claggett, 

Associate Register of Copyrights. 

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