[Ecommerce] Marybeth Peters on compulsory license March 11 Noon Rayburn

[Manon Ress]

REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS TO TESTIFY IN OVERSIGHT HEARING ON SECTION 115

Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters will be among the witnesses testifyi=
ng before the House  Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual=
 Property in an oversight hearing on "Section 115 of the Copyright Act: In =
Need of Update?" The hearing will take place at noon on Thursday, March 11,=
 in Room 2141 in the Rayburn House Office Building
in Washington, D.C. The hearing will be webcast live at http://www.house.go=
v/judiciary/schedule.htm.

See: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/115.html
Sec. 115. - Scope of exclusive rights in nondramatic musical works: Compuls=
ory license for making and distributing phonorecords

(115 is about the arrangement under which copyrighted non-dramatic
musical works may be recorded on phonograms and distributed subject to
payment of a royalty)
Manon

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Manon Anne Ress
Consumer Project on Technology
www.cptech.org
PO Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
manon.ress@cptech.org, voice: 1.202.387.8030, fax: 1.202.234.5176