CO Plans Section 1201 Rulemaking Hearings in April

The Copyright Office scheduled virtual hearings April 5-8 and 19-22 for the triennial rulemaking proceeding under Section 1201 of Title 17, it announced Monday. Requests to testify are due Feb. 24. The CO plans public roundtables March 25 for a public study to recommend best practices for the Music Modernization Act’s Mechanical Licensing Collective, the CO said Monday. The best practices are meant to “effectively identify and locate copyright owners with unclaimed royalties of musical works, encourage copyright owners to claim accrued royalties, and ultimately reduce the incidence of unclaimed royalties.”