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■ b. Remove and reserve paragraph 

(b)(5)(ii); and 

■ c. Remove paragraph (b)(5)(iii). 

§ 187.101 What information must be 

collected to identify a vessel owner? 

(a) * * * 

(4) Owner identifier, which must be 

the owner’s tax identification number, 

date of birth together with driver’s 

license number, or date of birth together 

with other unique number. 

(b) * * * 

(5) * * * 

(i) Owner identifier, which must be 

the owner’s tax identification number, 

date of birth together with driver’s 

license number, or date of birth together 

with other unique number. 

■ 34. Revise § 187.103 to read as 

follows: 

§ 187.103 What information must be 

collected to identify a vessel? 

A participating State must collect the 

following information on a vessel it has 

numbered or titled and make it available 

to VIS: 

(a) Manufacturer’s hull identification 

number, if any. 

(b) Official number, if any, assigned 

by the Coast Guard or its predecessor. 

(c) Number on certificate of number 

assigned by the issuing authority of the 

State. 

(d) Expiration date of certificate of 

number. 

(e) Number previously issued by an 

issuing authority. 

(f) Make and model of vessel. 

(g) Model year. 

(h) Overall length of vessel. 

(i) Vessel type: Authorized terms are 

‘‘air boat’’, ‘‘auxiliary sail’’, ‘‘cabin 

motorboat’’, ‘‘houseboat’’, ‘‘inflatable 

boat’’, ‘‘open motorboat’’, ‘‘paddlecraft’’, 

‘‘personal watercraft’’, ‘‘pontoon boat’’, 

‘‘rowboat’’, ‘‘sail only’’, or ‘‘other’’. 

(j) Hull material: Authorized terms are 

‘‘aluminum’’, ‘‘fiberglass’’, ‘‘plastic’’, 

‘‘rubber/vinyl/canvas’’, ‘‘steel’’, ‘‘wood’’, 

or ‘‘other’’. 

(k) Propulsion type: Authorized terms 

are ‘‘air thrust’’, ‘‘manual’’, ‘‘propeller’’, 

‘‘sail’’, ‘‘water jet’’, or ‘‘other’’. 

(l) Engine drive type: Authorized 

terms are ‘‘inboard’’, ‘‘outboard’’, ‘‘pod 

drive’’, ‘‘sterndrive’’, or ’’other’’. 

(m) Fuel: Authorized terms are 

‘‘electric’’, ‘‘diesel’’, ‘‘gas’’, or ‘‘other’’. 

(n) Primary operation: Authorized 

terms are, ‘‘charter fishing’’, 

‘‘commercial fishing’’, ‘‘commercial 

passenger carrying’’, ‘‘dealer or 

manufacturer demonstration’’, ‘‘other 

commercial operation’’, ‘‘pleasure’’, or 

‘‘rent or lease’’. 

Dated: March 15, 2012. 

Paul F. Thomas, 

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Acting Director 

of Prevention Policy. 

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BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Copyright Office 

37 CFR Part 201 

[Docket No. RM 2011–9] 

Fees 

AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of 

Congress. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Copyright Office of the 

Library of Congress is publishing a final 

rule establishing an additional fee for a 

particular service: Travel expenses in 

connection with educational activities. 

DATES: Effective Date: March 28, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David O. Carson, General Counsel, P.O. 

Box 70400, Washington, DC 20024– 

0400, Telephone: (202) 707–8380. 

Telefax: (202) 707–8366. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This final rule adjusts Copyright 

Office’s schedule of fees by adding a fee 

for travel expenses in connection with 

participation by Copyright Office 

personnel in various educational 

activities when participation has been 

requested by another organization or 

person and that organization or person 

has agreed to reimburse the Office for 

travel expenses. As the office 

administering the nation’s records of 

copyright ownership and as the advisor 

to Congress, the federal departments 

and agencies and the judiciary on 

national and international issues 

relating to copyright, the Copyright 

Office has long considered informing 

and educating the public on copyright 

issues to be a strategic goal. In 

furtherance of that goal, the Office has 

long engaged in various educational 

programs to inform the public on 

copyright issues. The Office performs 

these activities under its broader 

authority set forth in 17 U.S.C. 

701(b)(4), which directs the Office to 

‘‘[c]onduct studies and programs 

regarding copyright, other matters 

arising under this title, and related 

matters, the administration of the 

Copyright Office, or any function vested 

in the Copyright Office by law, 

including educational programs 

conducted cooperatively with foreign 

intellectual property offices and 

international intergovernmental 

organizations.’’ 

Frequently, the Register of Copyrights 

and other Copyright Office employees 

are requested to travel to speak to 

various groups of authors, copyright 

owners, their representatives, users of 

copyrighted works, and other members 

of the public to provide information 

about the activities of the Copyright 

Office, including copyright registration 

and recordation, the statutory licenses, 

pending and enacted copyright 

legislation, Copyright Office regulations, 

international copyright developments, 

significant copyright litigation matters, 

etc. Because the Copyright Office has 

limited travel funds and because various 

organizations consider it highly 

beneficial to host presentations by 

Copyright Office officials, it has been 

the general practice of the Office to 

request that the sponsoring organization 

or person pay the travel expenses of the 

Copyright Office personnel. More often 

than not, the Office’s limited travel 

funds would not permit the Office to 

send anyone to participate in such 

programs unless the sponsoring 

organization or person is willing to pay 

those expenses. 

This regulation codifies the authority 

for payment of those travel expenses. It 

adds a new paragraph (f) to the 

Copyright Office fee schedule in § 201.3 

of the Code of Federal Regulations, and 

provides that the Copyright Office shall 

charge a fee, consistent with the Federal 

Travel Regulations (FTR) set forth in 

Chapters 300 through 304 of Title 41 of 

the Code of Federal Regulations as well 

as other applicable laws and 

regulations, to cover the travel expenses 

of Copyright Office personnel, in 

connection with Copyright Office 

educational activities when 

participation by Copyright Office 

personnel has been requested by 

another person or organization which 

has agreed to pay such expenses. The 

fee may be no greater than the amount 

authorized under the FTR. 

The Office is also making a technical 

amendment to paragraph (b)(2) of 

§ 201.3, changing the reference to 

section 708(a)(10) of title 17 of the U.S. 

Code. Due to amendments to section 

708, that reference has been changed to 

section 708(a). 

Because this regulatory amendment 

simply codifies a longstanding practice 

and is necessary in order to permit 

uninterrupted operation of the Office’s 

ongoing educational activities, the 

Register concludes that providing notice 

and opportunity for comment would be 

impracticable, unnecessary and contrary 


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to the public interest. For similar 

reasons and in order to minimize 

disruptions in the Office’s educational 

activities, the Register finds that there is 

good cause to make the rule effective 

immediately upon publication. 

List of Subjects in 37 CFR Part 201 

Copyright, General provisions. 

Final Rule 

In consideration of the foregoing, part 

201 of 37 CFR chapter II is amended as 

follows: 

PART 201—GENERAL PROVISIONS 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 201 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 17 U.S.C. 702. 

■ 2 Amend § 201.3 as follows: 

■ a. In paragraph (b)(2) by removing 

‘‘708(a)(10)’’ and adding ‘‘708(a)’’ in its 

place. 

■ b. By adding new paragraph (f) as 

follows: 

§ 201.3 Fees for registration, recordation, 

and related services, special services, and 

services performed by the Licensing 

Division. 

* * * * * 

(f) Fees for travel in connection with 

educational activities. For travel 

expenses in connection with Copyright 

Office educational activities when 

participation by Copyright Office 

personnel has been requested by 

another organization or person and that 

organization or person has agreed to pay 

such expenses, collection of the fee 

shall be subject to, and the amount of 

the fee shall be no greater than, the 

amount authorized under the Federal 

Travel Regulations found in Chapters 

300 through 304 of Title 41. 

Dated: March 12, 2012. 

Maria A. Pallante, 

Register of Copyrights. 

Dated: March 19, 2012. 

Approved by: 

James H. Billington, 

The Librarian of Congress. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7427 Filed 3–27–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1410–30–P 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Copyright Office 

37 CFR Parts 201 and 202 

[Docket No. 2011–8] 

Discontinuance of Form CO in 

Registration Practices 

AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of 

Congress. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The United States Copyright 

Office is amending its regulations in 

order to discontinue use of the Form CO 

application as an option for applying for 

copyright registration, and in order to 

remove references to CON 1 and CON 2 

continuation sheets. The removal of 

Form CO leaves applicants a choice of 

filing an application for registration 

electronically or by using the 

appropriate printed application form 

relating to the subject matter of the 

application. The amendment also 

removes the references to CON 1 and 

CON 2 continuation sheets, which were 

never developed or made available to 

the public; the regulations instead now 

refer only to the continuation sheets 

currently available for applicants filing 

paper applications and makes other 

housekeeping amendments relating to 

applications for copyright registration. 

DATES: Effective Date: July 1, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tanya Sandros, Deputy General 

Counsel, Copyright Office, GC/I&R, P.O. 

Box 70400, Washington, DC 20024. 

Telephone: (202) 707–8380. Telefax: 

(202) 707–8366. All prior Federal 

Register notices and comments in this 

docket are available at http:// 

www.copyright.gov/docs/formco/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In 2007, the Copyright Office began an 

extensive business process 

reengineering initiative that had an 

impact on a variety of registrationrelated activities. See 72 FR 36883 (July 

6, 2007). As part of this initiative, the 

Office promulgated interim regulations 

regarding how the public submits and 

the Office processes copyright 

applications. In these interim 

regulations, the Office announced four 

ways to file an application for 

registration. At the time, the Office used 

the term ‘‘Form CO’’ generically in its 

regulations to cover all four approaches 

to registration. With the implementation 

of the new electronic registration 

practices, however, Form CO was used 

to describe a specific form that is filled 

out on a computer and that uses 

barcodes to capture the information 

entered by the person filling out the 

form. After completing the form, the 

applicant prints it out and submits the 

paper form to the Copyright Office. This 

newer incarnation of Form CO, first 

made available in 2008, was intended to 

simplify the application process and 

replace the traditional paper Forms TX, 

VA, PA, SR, and SE. See 72 FR at 36885; 

37 CFR 202.3(b)(2)(ii). However, 

following the implementation of 

reengineering, it eventually became 

clear (for reasons discussed below) that 

Form CO did not live up to its 

expectations because many users of the 

form made entries on the form that were 

not captured in the barcodes and 

therefore were not carried over into the 

Office’s registration records and because 

of problems with printing the forms. 

The regulations promulgated in 2007 

also referred to two additional 

continuation sheets, CON 1 and CON 2, 

which the Office intended to be used in 

connection with Form CO and which 

would have allowed applicants to 

provide additional information that 

would not fit within the barcodes to be 

generated by Form CO. See 72 FR at 

36886. However, the Office never 

developed these new continuation 

sheets and continued to accept the 

traditional Form CON for the provision 

of additional information. See http:// 

www.copyright.gov/forms/formcon.pdf. 

On September 30, 2011, the Copyright 

Office published a notice of proposed 

rulemaking and request for comments in 

regard to Form CO, CON 1, and CON 2. 

76 FR 60774. The Office proposed 

eliminating Form CO as an application 

option and removing references to CON 

1 and CON 2. Form CO, the Office 

pointed out, is not widely used, but it 

does present a disproportionate number 

of problems for the Office. As is 

explained in greater detail in the notice 

of proposed rulemaking, when 

applicants find they need to amend 

information on Form CO after preparing 

and printing the form but before 

submitting it, they frequently make 

changes by writing directly on the form 

rather than redoing or revising the form 

correctly online. As a result, additional 

time and resources are required for the 

Office to manually input the amended 

information into the system, or it may 

be missed in the ingestion process 

altogether. Either way, the added time 

required to detect and correct these 

problems defeats all the efficiencies 

promised by this technology. 

Nor is human error the only concern. 

The notice of proposed rulemaking also 

noted that the use of barcodes presents 

other unique problems associated with 


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