The Copyright Office plans to increase the cost of copyright registration by an average of 41%.
How do you feel about that? If you have registered your own copyrights in the last 5 years, The Copyright Alliance would like your anonymous feedback before August 17th, to help them craft a written response to the Copyright Office that accurately represents the views of American creators.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZPJ23ZC
The deadline for the anonymous survey is August 17th, 2018.
Karyn A. Temple, blogging on the Library of Congress site, explains the thinking behind the new fee increases.
https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2018/05/copyright-office-proposes-new-fee-model/
One can comment on her blog. One can comment officially here:
https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=COLC-2018-0005-0002
The deadline for public comments on the regulations.gov site has been extended until September 21st, 2018
All the best,
Rowena Cherry
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Showing posts with label Survey. Show all posts
Saturday, July 28, 2018
Sunday, February 05, 2017
A Good Take-Down (DMCA related)
This week, I had a most excellent experience of the Take-Down kind with Scribd.
A Google Alert informed me (a daily occurrence) that one of my works had been uploaded to the internet for free distribution by a French-speaking user rejoicing in the improbable name of "treaczoyrossu(date redacted)".
The "(date redacted)" is minor editorializing on my part. To my knowledge, my works have never been lawfully translated into French or any other foreign language.
I followed the link to Scribd, and after establishing a good faith belief that my copyright was indeed being infringed, I discovered this page on the platform.
https://www.scribd.com/copyright/report-infringement
Below the blurb is a very easy, mostly pre-populated form for copyright owners to use. It was quick, simple, and effective. Within a few hours, the page was down. If your work is being shared without your permission on Scribd, use the site. Don't bother paying any of the pirate hunters.
The Copyright Alliance would like you to share your experiences with Take-Downs and Bad Actors.
Please complete the Copyright Alliance survey no later than February 17, 2017.
It's a "Survey Monkey" survey; they known when you have done it (even if you switch on your PVA and try to do it again from a different part of the world... I know that, not because I was trying to cheat/troll but because I wanted a good link to post for you all, rather than a "you've-done-this-survey" link.)
And now for the "Good Catches" of the week, aka other interesting blogs and articles you might enjoy, if you are not watching sports today:
Artist as underdog
https://hughstephensblog.net/2017/01/23/the-artist-as-underdog/
The Accountability of Web Platforms
http://illusionofmore.com/the-accountability-of-web-platforms/
More on Accountability
http://copyrightalliance.org/ca_post/bmg-cox-accountability/
On the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch and his significance for authors, the Authors Guild opined guardedly in a recent newsletter. Judge Gorsuch "is more likely to interpret the copyright law, including DMCA provisions dealing with online piracy, in accordance with their plain meaning (whereas many courts in recent years have stretched the provisions far beyond their plain meaning in order to protect technology platforms)..."
The newletter was mailed to Authors Guild members. I cannot find it online, but there were invitations to forward the entire newsletter to others, or to "share" it on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/AuthorsGuild/
Some stock advice from very savvy musicians:
Facebook:
https://thetrichordist.com/2017/02/02/without-music-licenses-facebook-cant-pursue-long-form-video-should-investors-say-fckthezuck/
Spotify: (Two intriguing stories, one mentioning a $200,000,000 class action lawsuit)
https://thetrichordist.com/2017/01/26/was-daniel-ek-really-joking-when-he-offered-obama-job-at-spotify-was-obama-joking-when-he-asked-for-one/
and
https://thetrichordist.com/2017/02/03/will-spotify-convertible-debt-cannibalize-major-label-and-insider-equity/
And, my take on the following article is that it looks like the Copyright Office, funded by the American taxpayer, is being used to facilitate copyright infringement on a massive scale.
https://musictech.solutions/2017/01/26/mass-noi-update-christopher-sabec-and-rightscorp-tackle-the-copyright-office-problem/
Final reminder:
Take the DMCA Survey Here
All the best,
Rowena Cherry
A Google Alert informed me (a daily occurrence) that one of my works had been uploaded to the internet for free distribution by a French-speaking user rejoicing in the improbable name of "treaczoyrossu(date redacted)".
The "(date redacted)" is minor editorializing on my part. To my knowledge, my works have never been lawfully translated into French or any other foreign language.
I followed the link to Scribd, and after establishing a good faith belief that my copyright was indeed being infringed, I discovered this page on the platform.
https://www.scribd.com/copyright/report-infringement
Below the blurb is a very easy, mostly pre-populated form for copyright owners to use. It was quick, simple, and effective. Within a few hours, the page was down. If your work is being shared without your permission on Scribd, use the site. Don't bother paying any of the pirate hunters.
The Copyright Alliance would like you to share your experiences with Take-Downs and Bad Actors.
Please complete the Copyright Alliance survey no later than February 17, 2017.
It's a "Survey Monkey" survey; they known when you have done it (even if you switch on your PVA and try to do it again from a different part of the world... I know that, not because I was trying to cheat/troll but because I wanted a good link to post for you all, rather than a "you've-done-this-survey" link.)
And now for the "Good Catches" of the week, aka other interesting blogs and articles you might enjoy, if you are not watching sports today:
Artist as underdog
https://hughstephensblog.net/2017/01/23/the-artist-as-underdog/
The Accountability of Web Platforms
http://illusionofmore.com/the-accountability-of-web-platforms/
More on Accountability
http://copyrightalliance.org/ca_post/bmg-cox-accountability/
On the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch and his significance for authors, the Authors Guild opined guardedly in a recent newsletter. Judge Gorsuch "is more likely to interpret the copyright law, including DMCA provisions dealing with online piracy, in accordance with their plain meaning (whereas many courts in recent years have stretched the provisions far beyond their plain meaning in order to protect technology platforms)..."
The newletter was mailed to Authors Guild members. I cannot find it online, but there were invitations to forward the entire newsletter to others, or to "share" it on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/AuthorsGuild/
Some stock advice from very savvy musicians:
Facebook:
https://thetrichordist.com/2017/02/02/without-music-licenses-facebook-cant-pursue-long-form-video-should-investors-say-fckthezuck/
Spotify: (Two intriguing stories, one mentioning a $200,000,000 class action lawsuit)
https://thetrichordist.com/2017/01/26/was-daniel-ek-really-joking-when-he-offered-obama-job-at-spotify-was-obama-joking-when-he-asked-for-one/
and
https://thetrichordist.com/2017/02/03/will-spotify-convertible-debt-cannibalize-major-label-and-insider-equity/
And, my take on the following article is that it looks like the Copyright Office, funded by the American taxpayer, is being used to facilitate copyright infringement on a massive scale.
https://musictech.solutions/2017/01/26/mass-noi-update-christopher-sabec-and-rightscorp-tackle-the-copyright-office-problem/
Final reminder:
Take the DMCA Survey Here
All the best,
Rowena Cherry
Sunday, January 22, 2017
What Do You Want In A Register?
What do you want in a Register... of Copyrights?
January 31st 2017 is the deadline for copyright owners and future copyright owners to opine.
https://www.research.net/r/RegisterOfCopyrights
It's free, easy, and not terribly time consuming. Please make your voices heard.
These are the questions in the 3-question survey:
1. What are the knowledge, skills, and abilities that you believe are the most important for the Register of Copyrights?
2. What should be the top three priorities for the Register of Copyrights?
3. Are there other factors that should be considered?
Optional: you may upload supporting material as a file.
That's it!
FWIW, the "Register" is a person. The position was vacated when Maria Pallante was constructively demoted. Rumor has it, Maria Pallante was too sympathetic to copyright owners, musicians, songwriters, authors of books, creators of movies and tv shows that are delivered through cable and satellite channels.
Probably, people who depend on legal sales, contracts, subscription fees, licensing and royalties for their books, movies, sound-tracks, music etc would like a copyright enthusiast in the Register's office.
Perhaps, authors and other creators would like a Register who has a history of representing or supporting copyright owners, and who is clearly supported by copyright owners, rather than one supported by pirates, copyright infringers, "permissionless innovators", or the sort of persons who tell us that "information wants to be free" and include in-copyright fiction and musical works as "information".
Some management experience would be helpful. It would also be good if they were articulate and personable, and able to testify effectively to Congress.
It would be truly remarkable and lovely if those studying the survey comments would give more weight to the replies of persons whose livelihood is affected by copyright ownership than to freeloaders and enterprises who advertise to freeloaders.
In other copyright related news, kudos to the UK and to ISPs in the UK.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/watch-pirate-tv-online-you-12463944
Copyright infringers who use Torrents and software to illegally download music, ebooks, films, sports etc will be receiving letters from their broadband providers, explaining to them that what they are doing is illegal, and recommending legal places to find what they want.
All the best,
Rowena Cherry
January 31st 2017 is the deadline for copyright owners and future copyright owners to opine.
https://www.research.net/r/RegisterOfCopyrights
It's free, easy, and not terribly time consuming. Please make your voices heard.
These are the questions in the 3-question survey:
1. What are the knowledge, skills, and abilities that you believe are the most important for the Register of Copyrights?
2. What should be the top three priorities for the Register of Copyrights?
3. Are there other factors that should be considered?
Optional: you may upload supporting material as a file.
That's it!
FWIW, the "Register" is a person. The position was vacated when Maria Pallante was constructively demoted. Rumor has it, Maria Pallante was too sympathetic to copyright owners, musicians, songwriters, authors of books, creators of movies and tv shows that are delivered through cable and satellite channels.
Probably, people who depend on legal sales, contracts, subscription fees, licensing and royalties for their books, movies, sound-tracks, music etc would like a copyright enthusiast in the Register's office.
Perhaps, authors and other creators would like a Register who has a history of representing or supporting copyright owners, and who is clearly supported by copyright owners, rather than one supported by pirates, copyright infringers, "permissionless innovators", or the sort of persons who tell us that "information wants to be free" and include in-copyright fiction and musical works as "information".
Some management experience would be helpful. It would also be good if they were articulate and personable, and able to testify effectively to Congress.
It would be truly remarkable and lovely if those studying the survey comments would give more weight to the replies of persons whose livelihood is affected by copyright ownership than to freeloaders and enterprises who advertise to freeloaders.
In other copyright related news, kudos to the UK and to ISPs in the UK.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/watch-pirate-tv-online-you-12463944
Copyright infringers who use Torrents and software to illegally download music, ebooks, films, sports etc will be receiving letters from their broadband providers, explaining to them that what they are doing is illegal, and recommending legal places to find what they want.
All the best,
Rowena Cherry
Saturday, February 06, 2016
How Is the DMCA Working For You?
If you are a creator (author, musician, songwriter, photographer, artist) and have had your copyrights infringed by others, your thoughts, experiences and stories about piracy and the DMCA Takedown process could help the copyrightalliance.org prepare their testimony for the US Copyright Office.
Please complete this survey
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/512study
Thank you,
Rowena Cherry
Please complete this survey
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/512study
Thank you,
Rowena Cherry
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
SURVEY 1
Here's wishing everyone who celebrates some Spring holiday or another a good, healthy, and happy year.
I'll be offline for Passover, and my next post will likely be April 21.
Meanwhile, here below is a form I made up with spreadsheets.google.com (google documents). It has a page where I should be able to see a graph of the answers. I have no idea if this will work, but another blogger used it and it worked for h im. It's worth a try.
So choose your favorite type of blog entry -- or drop a comment explaining what we do right, and what we shouldn't be doing at all here.
Tell us what you'd like to see more of.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://www.simegen.com/jl/
BOTTOM LINE - I can't make this survey field fit our blog window. Use the scroll bars and see if you can make it work anyway.
If you want surveys, we'll find a better way to do this.
I'll be offline for Passover, and my next post will likely be April 21.
Meanwhile, here below is a form I made up with spreadsheets.google.com (google documents). It has a page where I should be able to see a graph of the answers. I have no idea if this will work, but another blogger used it and it worked for h im. It's worth a try.
So choose your favorite type of blog entry -- or drop a comment explaining what we do right, and what we shouldn't be doing at all here.
Tell us what you'd like to see more of.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://www.simegen.com/jl/
BOTTOM LINE - I can't make this survey field fit our blog window. Use the scroll bars and see if you can make it work anyway.
If you want surveys, we'll find a better way to do this.
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