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Hon. Marybeth Peters
Thursday, March 27, 2003
ROOM 590; TIME: 5:15 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Presentation, Discussion and Reception
Copyright law is the subject of increasingly intense debates, whether in Congress or in the courts. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 generated substantial controversy. And in January of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Eldred v. Ashcroft, upholding by 7-2 the constitutionality of the Copyright Term Extension Act.
As the Register of Copyrights, the top U.S. copyright official, for almost the last decade, Marybeth Peters has been at the center of these debates. Most recently, Ms. Peters has testified before Congress on Piracy Prevention and the Broadcast Flag, the Copyright Office is currently conducting the triennial rulemaking proceeding on exemptions from the prohibition on circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works, and the Office has been involved in establishing royalty rates for webcasting of sound recordings.
Register Peters will discuss many of these (and other) issues. Her presentation will be followed by a question and answer session and a reception.
Brief Biography of Ms. Peters
Marybeth Peters has served as the United States Register of Copyrights since August 7, 1994. From 1983-1994 she held the position of Policy Planning Advisor to the Register. She has also served as Acting General Counsel of the Copyright Office and as chief of both the Examining and the Information and Reference divisions. A frequent speaker on copyright issues, Ms. Peters is the author of The General Guide to the Copyright Act of 1976. Ms. Peters served as a consultant on copyright law to the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1989-1990.
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