Orphan Works, Radio Royalties On Berman's Agenda
House Judiciary Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property Subcommittee Chairman Howard Berman, D-Calif., may have his sights set on the Foreign Affairs Committee chairmanship in the 111th Congress, but he told reporters he still has an ambitious IP agenda for the rest of this session.
His panel took action on an IP enforcement bill on Thursday (See CongressDaily's PM edition) and soon he will turn to legislation that addresses "orphan works" -- content whose owners cannot be easily identified. A bill that would eliminate a longstanding exemption granted to AM and FM radio stations, which allows them to broadcast music without paying royalties, is also on his radar screen.
Shameless plug: Those issues (and many more) will surely crop up when I conduct a "fireside chat" with Berman at the Tech Policy Summit in Hollywood later this month. For more details on the conference, click here.
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