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committee shall be deemed to be 

employees of the United States 

Government for any purpose by virtue 

of their participation on the committee. 

Members of the committee will not be 

compensated for their services or 

reimbursed for travel expenses. 

Authority: The authority for this notice is 

granted by the FACA (5 U.S.C. App. 2) and 

the Secretary of Labor’s Order No. 18–2006 

(71 FR 77560 (12/26/2006)). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Paula Church Albertson, Division Chief, 

Monitoring and Enforcement of Free 

Trade Agreements, Bureau of 

International Labor Affairs, U.S. 

Department of Labor, telephone (202) 

693–4789. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 15th day of 

March 2013. 

Carol Pier, 

Acting Deputy Undersecretary, Bureau of 

International Labor Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2013–06630 Filed 3–21–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–28–P 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

U.S. Copyright Office 

[Docket No. 2013–2] 

Technological Upgrades to 

Registration and Recordation 

Functions 

AGENCY: U.S. Copyright Office, Library 

of Congress. 

ACTION: Notice of Inquiry. 

SUMMARY: The United States Copyright 

Office (hereinafter Copyright Office or 

Office) is in the process of identifying 

and evaluating potential improvements 

and technical enhancements to the 

information technology platforms that 

support its registration and recordation 

functions, including its online 

registration system. These efforts are 

part of the Office’s ongoing special 

projects, commenced October 25, 2011 

(available at the Office’s Web site at 

www.copyright.gov/docs/priorities.pdf). 

The information garnered through this 

process has and will continue to inform 

the development of the Copyright 

Office’s long-term strategic plan, 

scheduled to commence in October 

2013. 

At this time, the Office seeks 

comments regarding existing 

capabilities and future possibilities. 

Broadly, the Office seeks comments on 

(1) how stakeholders use the current 

online offerings of the Copyright Office, 

especially with respect to registration 

and recorded documents, and how the 

current offerings meet, fail to meet, or 

exceed user expectations; and (2) how 

stakeholders would like to interact with 

the Copyright Office electronically in 

the future, or, put differently, what 

online services, or aspects of existing 

online services stakeholders would like 

to see. The Office appreciates the 

comments and suggestions of those who 

use the national registration and 

recordation systems to protect their 

intellectual property, as well as those 

who regularly use Copyright Office 

resources to identify copyright owners, 

investigate the copyright status of works 

and the public domain, and perform 

other research, including statistical 

analysis on aggregated data sets. 

DATES: Comments on the Notice of 

Inquiry and Requests for Comments are 

due on or before May 21, 2013. 

Submission: All comments shall be 

submitted electronically. A comment 

page containing a comment form is 

posted on the Copyright Office Web site 

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

technical_upgrades. 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 browse button. To meet accessibility 

standards, all comments must be 

uploaded in a single file in either 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 maximum file size is 6 

megabytes (MB). The name of the 

submitter and organization should 

appear on both the form and the face of 

the comments. All comments will be 

posted publicly on the Copyright Office 

web site exactly as they are received, 

along with names and organizations. If 

electronic submission of comments is 

not feasible, please contact the 

Copyright Office at 202–707–8350 for 

special instructions. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Douglas Ament, Director of Information 

Technology, Copyright, by email at 

uscotechupgrades@loc.gov; Christopher 

S. Reed, Senior Advisor for Policy & 

Special Projects, Office of the Register of 

Copyrights, by email at creed@loc.gov; 

or call the U.S. Copyright Office by 

phone at 202–707–8350. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

In 2000, the Copyright Office initiated 

a comprehensive business process 

reengineering initiative intended to 

update the Office’s technology platform 

and improve operational efficiency. 

With the assistance of outside 

consultants and business analysts, the 

Office identified opportunities for 

efficiency enhancements and process 

improvements. The most significant 

recommendation was to convert the 

existing paper-based copyright 

registration system to an electronic 

system, which included the 

development of related new business 

processes and the automated production 

of public copyright records. 

Funding available for the 

reengineering effort was limited and 

decisions made by the Copyright Office 

and the greater Library were necessarily 

constrained. Ultimately the Office 

implemented a commercial off-the-shelf 

software package. The Office piloted the 

internal business process functions of 

the software with a subset of 

constituents in February 2005, followed 

by full implementation of the Copyright 

Office’s electronic processing system in 

August 2007. The public-facing 

electronic registration system—the 

system that enables copyright 

registration applicants to submit 

materials online—was launched in July 

2008. The Office implemented a 

significant upgrade to its software and 

hardware platforms in August 2010, and 

implemented periodic upgrades and 

enhancements to accommodate the 

needs of the system’s stakeholders— 

namely those that submit materials for 

registration, those that search the 

Copyright Office database for copyright 

ownership information, and the 

Copyright Office’s staff that process and 

examine copyright claims. 

Today, more than eighty percent of 

the Office’s applications for copyright 

registration come through the electronic 

system, demonstrating the copyright 

community’s widespread interest in 

electronic registration functions. 

Although the current system, and the 

periodic upgrades and enhancements, 

have allowed the Office to maintain a 

functional electronic platform for many 

types of works, there is room for 

substantial improvement. Notably, the 

Office’s recordation services were 

included in the initial reengineering 

plan, but were later dropped for 

budgetary reasons. Recordation 

processes are, thus, still paper-based 

and are a top concern of the Copyright 

Office. Thus, the Office’s current 

systems represent the ‘‘first generation’’ 

of the Office’s electronic processing 

capabilities. 

II. Discussion 

In recent months, project leaders from 

the Copyright Office have engaged 

copyright owners, users of copyright 

records, technical experts, public 

interest organizations, and lawyers, 


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including through professional 

associations and small businesses to 

participate in a series of focused 

discussions on issues relating to the 

Office’s platforms for registration, 

document recordation, and public 

access to copyright ownership 

information. Through these discussions, 

as well as through its own expert 

analysis, the Office has identified a 

number of areas in which the current 

electronic system could be improved. 

For example, numerous interested 

parties have observed that the current 

user interface for electronic registration 

is a challenge to navigate. Users have 

told the Office that it would be helpful 

to be able to customize the user 

interface and workflow in order to 

streamline the registration process to 

accommodate their own internal 

workflows. Moreover, users would like 

to exercise some degree of control over 

the nature and scope of information 

they view in a personalized registration 

system dashboard. The Copyright Office 

is aware of similar requests from its own 

staff, many of whom desire 

customizable workflows to enhance 

productivity and process efficiency, 

which would result in improved 

turnaround times for remitters. 

At a global level, the Office is aware 

that as mobile technology becomes 

ubiquitous, an increasing number of 

stakeholders desire to use mobile 

devices to interact with the Office. To 

that end, the Office is evaluating the 

potential to deploy a mobile optimized 

web interface, ‘‘apps’’ that support 

popular mobile platforms, and the 

development of an application program 

interface (API) that can be utilized 

within third party applications. 

The Office has also heard that many 

of its users would benefit from 

improved tracking capabilities. 

Remitters have indicated that the 

existing electronic registration process 

is cumbersome and are oftentimes 

uncertain of their progress within the 

application process; to improve that 

aspect of the system, they have 

suggested that the Office implement a 

visual representation of the registration 

workflow and the user’s status within it 

(e.g., a status bar). 

Beyond improvements to the 

registration functions, the Office is 

aware of opportunities for improvement 

to its public record search capabilities. 

Stakeholders have indicated that the 

Office’s search function should be more 

robust, allowing for more search criteria, 

refining the display of the search 

results, adding filters, and generally 

making the search functionality more 

user-friendly. Representatives from 

interested parties also suggested the 

Copyright Office make it easier to 

provide updates to the public record to 

ensure the data maintained is accurate 

and up to date (e.g., address changes). 

The Office is thus investigating methods 

of secure and effective data sharing 

between interested parties and the 

Copyright Office in order to determine 

if such functionality can be 

implemented in a manner that ensures 

integrity of the Office’s records. 

The Office is also aware of the need 

for long-term, scalable data storage and 

archiving capability to accommodate the 

growing volume of digital works that the 

Office receives. The Office has received 

recommendations to centralize the 

various information clusters internally 

within the Copyright Office to a central 

data repository and establish a central 

data warehouse. Implementing such a 

warehouse presents a series of 

challenges that the Office seeks to learn 

more about, including determining 

scalable infrastructure solutions to 

accommodate vast amounts of data, 

analyzing data standards needed to 

establish a central data model, and 

evaluating potential data archival 

strategies. 

One recommendation that the Office 

frequently hears, and one that underlies 

many of the areas of improvement noted 

above, is the need for bulk data transfer 

between the Office and interested 

outside parties. Such transfer 

mechanisms would allow more 

widespread distribution of the Office’s 

records, as well as permit remitters to 

submit large quantities of electronic 

material and associated application data 

to the Office. Such ‘‘system-to-system’’ 

or ‘‘business-to-business’’ capabilities 

are a central area of inquiry for the 

Office. Interested parties have suggested 

that the Office expose data portals 

enabled to facilitate data exchange over 

standards-based protocols such as 

ebMS, SOAP, and AS4. 

In support of potential bulk data 

transfer capabilities, the Office is 

investigating specific data exchange 

standards, including those that already 

exist as well as the potential for 

developing a new standard based upon 

the needs of the Office’s constituents. 

Interested parties have told the Office 

that it should continue to take an active 

role and adopt existing standards that 

support data exchange between the 

Office and its stakeholders. This 

includes defining or adopting metadata 

standards that support particular 

industries (e.g., IPTC for photography; 

ISRC for sound recordings; ONIX for 

books). Further, standards such as 

CISAC’s Common Works Registration 

(CWR) and DDEX digital supply chain 

standards should be considered to help 

develop the Office’s ability to provide 

better business-to-business data 

transfers. Interested parties have 

suggested that the Copyright Office 

publish a recognized list of data 

standards so that users are able to 

establish systems that support more 

efficient interactions with the Copyright 

Office. 

III. Subjects of Inquiry 

The Copyright Office is currently 

evaluating what the ‘‘next generation’’ 

of its electronic services should look 

like. Through a comprehensive 

evaluation of its current technical 

processing capabilities, and extensive 

interaction with stakeholders, the Office 

hopes to develop a complete picture of 

how the Office currently supports the 

needs of the copyright community, and 

where its systems and services could be 

improved. The Office hopes to achieve 

a greater understanding of current 

technical challenges facing the 

copyright community as well as gain a 

comprehensive understanding of how 

the community hopes to conduct 

business with the Copyright Office in 

the future. This evaluation process, 

which is tied to special projects detailed 

in Priorities and Special Projects of the 

U.S. Copyright Office released by the 

Register of Copyrights in October 2011, 

is intended to inform the development 

of the Office’s next five-year strategic 

plan that will commence in October 

2013 and guide, among other things, the 

technological evolution of the Copyright 

Office. That plan will, in turn, inform 

the Library of Congress’s overarching 

strategic plan. 

Because the Office’s evaluation of its 

technology platform is intended to be a 

wide-ranging review of existing 

capabilities and future possibilities, the 

Office seeks comments that present 

conceptual frameworks with concrete 

examples of future potential 

applications or services. Broadly, the 

Office seeks comments on (1) how 

stakeholders use the current online 

offerings of the Copyright Office, 

especially with respect to registration 

and recorded documents, and how the 

current offerings meet, fail to meet, or 

exceed user expectations; and (2) how 

stakeholders would like to interact with 

the Copyright Office electronically in 

the future, or, put differently, what 

online services, or aspects of existing 

online services stakeholders would like 

to see. 

Although the Office welcomes 

comments on the wide range of topics 

germane to this inquiry, it is particularly 

interested in comments that address: (1) 

The nature and capabilities of the 

Copyright Office’s public portals (e.g., 


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1Any other Adviser also will be registered under 

the Advisers Act. 

for electronic registration services), 

including interface-based portals as well 

as business-to-business portals, or 

access to Copyright Office services or 

data through application program 

interfaces; (2) the nature and scope of 

information captured during the course 

of the registration and recordation 

processes, including that which could 

be captured through user input, or 

through metadata harvesting; (3) 

metadata standards in particular 

industries that the Copyright Office 

might adopt or incorporate into its 

systems (e.g., IPTC for photography; 

ISRC for sound recordings; ONIX for 

books); (4) data storage and security 

standards for electronic copyright 

deposits, including the development of 

policies and best practices for data 

retention and migration; (5) new ways of 

searching and accessing registration and 

recordation data and/or registration 

deposit metadata (e.g., image or music 

search technology); and (6) the 

integration of third-party databases of 

copyright ownership and licensing 

information (such as those maintained 

by collective management 

organizations) and related technologies 

with data maintained by the Copyright 

Office. 

Dated: March 18, 2013. 

Maria A. Pallante, 

Register of Copyrights, U.S. Copyright Office. 

[FR Doc. 2013–06633 Filed 3–21–13; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2013–0020] 

Biweekly Notice; Applications and 

Amendments to Facility Operating 

Licenses and Combined Licenses 

Involving No Significant Hazards 

Considerations; Correction 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is correcting a notice 

that was published in the Federal 

Register (FR) on February 5, 2013 (78 

FR 8195), regarding the applications and 

amendments to facility operating 

licenses and combined licenses 

involving no significant hazards 

considerations. This action is necessary 

to correct an erroneous date. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules, 

Announcements, and Directives Branch, 

Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 

3667; email: Cindy.Bladey@nrc.gov. 

Correction 

In the FR of February 5, 2013, in FR 

Doc. 2013–02352, on page 8202, first 

column, correct the fourth full 

paragraph to read: 

Date of initial notice in Federal 

Register: September 4, 2012 (77 FR 

53927). 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day 

of March, 2013. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Cindy Bladey, 

Chief, Rules, Announcements, and Directives 

Branch, Division of Administrative Services, 

Office of Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2013–06545 Filed 3–21–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Investment Company Act Release No. 

30427; File No. 812–14114] 

Ivy Funds Variable Insurance 

Portfolios, et al.; Notice of Application 

March 15, 2013 . 

AGENCY: Securities and Exchange 

Commission (‘‘Commission’’). 

ACTION: Notice of an application under 

section 6(c) of the Investment Company 

Act of 1940 (‘‘Act’’) for an exemption 

from rule 12d1–2(a) under the Act. 

SUMMARY OF APPLICATION: Applicants 

request an order to permit open-end 

management investment companies 

relying on rule 12d1–2 under the Act to 

invest in certain financial instruments. 

APPLICANTS: Ivy Funds Variable 

Insurance Portfolios (the ‘‘Trust’’), 

Waddell & Reed Investment 

Management Company (‘‘WRIMCO’’), 

and Waddell & Reed, Inc. (‘‘W&R’’). 

FILING DATES: The application was filed 

on January 18, 2013. 

HEARING OR NOTIFICATION OF HEARING: An 

order granting the application will be 

issued unless the Commission orders a 

hearing. Interested persons may request 

a hearing by writing to the 

Commission’s Secretary and serving 

applicants with a copy of the request, 

personally or by mail. Hearing requests 

should be received by the Commission 

by 5:30 p.m. on April 9, 2013, and 

should be accompanied by proof of 

service on applicants, in the form of an 

affidavit or, for lawyers, a certificate of 

service. Hearing requests should state 

the nature of the writer’s interest, the 

reason for the request, and the issues 

contested. Persons who wish to be 

notified of a hearing may request 

notification by writing to the 

Commission’s Secretary. 

ADDRESSES: Elizabeth M. Murphy, 

Secretary, Securities and Exchange 

Commission, 100 F Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20549–1090; 

Applicants, 6300 Lamar Avenue, 

Overland Park, Kansas 66202–4200. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bruce R. MacNeil, Senior Counsel, at 

(202) 551–6817, or Daniele Marchesani, 

Branch Chief, at (202) 551–6821 

(Division of Investment Management, 

Office of Investment Company 

Regulation). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

following is a summary of the 

application. The complete application 

may be obtained via the Commission’s 

Web site by searching for the file 

number, or an applicant using the 

Company name box, at http:// 

www.sec.gov/search/search.htm or by 

calling (202) 551–8090. 

Applicants’ Representations 

1. The Trust is a Delaware statutory 

trust registered under the Act as an 

open-end management investment 

company. WRIMCO, a Kansas 

corporation, is an investment adviser 

registered under the Investment 

Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the 

‘‘Advisers Act’’) and serves as 

investment adviser to the Trust. W&R is 

organized as a Delaware corporation, 

and is a registered broker–dealer under 

the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as 

amended (‘‘1934 Act’’); W&R is the 

principal underwriter of the Trust. 

2. Applicants request the exemption 

to the extent necessary to permit any 

existing or future series of the Trust and 

any other registered open-end 

management investment company or 

series thereof that (i) is advised by 

WRIMCO or any person controlling, 

controlled by or under common control 

with WRIMCO (any such adviser or 

WRIMCO, an ‘‘Adviser’’),1 (ii) is in the 

same group of investment companies, as 

defined in section 12(d)(1)(G) of the Act, 

as the Trust and invests in other 

registered open-end management 

investment companies in that same 

group (‘‘Underlying Funds’’) in reliance 

on section 12(d)(1)(G) of the Act; and 

(iii) is also eligible to invest in securities 

(as defined in section 2(a)(36) of the 

Act) in reliance on rule 12d1–2 under 

the Act (each a ‘‘Fund of Funds’’), to 

also invest, to the extent consistent with 

its investment objectives, policies, 

strategies and limitations, in financial 


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