CO Plans May Roundtables on DMCA Section 1201, Software-Embedded Products Studies

The U.S. Copyright Office said it plans a series of May roundtables in Washington and San Francisco on its studies on software-embedded consumer products and Digital Millennium Copyright Act Section 1201. Stakeholders were divided in February on how the CO should do its software-embedded products study and particularly on whether there's already a need to change copyright law to suit such products (see 1602170054). Several stakeholders have partially set their sights on the CO's proposal within the Section 1201 study to adjust the CO's triennial review process for Section 1201 exemptions to allow for presumptive renewal of previously granted exemptions (see 1603030060). The CO set roundtables on the software-embedded products study for May 18 in Washington and May 24 in San Francisco. The CO's Section 1201 roundtables will be May 19-20 in Washington and May 25-26 in San Francisco. All Washington-based roundtables will be at the Library of Congress' Madison Building, while San Francisco-based roundtables will be at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law, the CO said in a Monday notice in the Federal Register. The CO also plans roundtables on their DMCA Section 512 study May 2-3 at the New York University School of Law and May 12-13 at Stanford Law School (see 1603180059).