NTIA, PTO To Hold Meeting on Online Licensing April 1

NTIA and the Patent and Trademark Office will hold a meeting on online licensing for copyrighted works April 1, said a Federal Register notice set for Friday publication. The meeting will focus “specifically on how the Government can assist in facilitating the development and use of standard identifiers for all types of works of authorship, interoperability among databases and systems used to identify owners of rights and terms of use, and a possible portal for linking to such databases and to licensing platforms,” it said. The meeting will be held at the PTO office in Alexandria, Virginia.