The House Judiciary Committee has held some 20 hearings in the last two years as part of its comprehensive review of the copyright laws. Its hearing scheduled for this afternoon will focus on the functions and resources of the U.S. Copyright Office. In an opinion piece that appears in The Hill today, Covington’s Howard Berman and Aaron Cooper write that the hearing “charts promising new territory” because a“21st-century Copyright Office could make tremendous progress in helping those who create works, those who license works to use in new projects, and those of us who simply enjoy what others have created.” Berman and Cooper state that if Congress can provide the Copyright Office with the resources and authority it needs, that “may well improve all aspects of the copyright system for years to come.”
