Public Interest Groups Tell Copyright Office To Stay Out of Buffer Dispute

The U.S. Copyright Office should allow the courts to decide the crucial issue of whether a temporary copy of a song or other copyrighted work made by a computer must be subject to copyright royalties, public interest and industry groups said today.

The Copyright Office should not try to decide the issue, a group of public interest groups led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Public Knowledge (PK) and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) said in a filing with the Office in response to a proposed rule published July 16. In addition, Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America, U.S. PIRG, and the Computer & Communications Industry Association also signed onto the pleading.

Source: Center for Democracy and Technology

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