Copyright Office Seeks Comments on Music
Licensing |
3/17. The Copyright Office (CO) published
a notice
in the Federal Register (FR) that "announces the initiation of a study to evaluate
the effectiveness of existing methods of licensing music". This notice contains
a summary of current music licensing practices and laws, and 24 questions for
public comment.
The CO seeks public comments to assist it in preparing a report for the
Congress. The House Judiciary Committee
(HJC) has several related hearings in the 113th Congress.
The deadline to submit comments is May 16, 2014. See, FR, Vol. 79, No. 51, March 17,
2014, at Pages 14739-14743. This notice adds that the CO will hold hearings after the
close of the comment period.
The CO states that in drafting the Copyright Act of 1976 and the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA) in 1998, the "Congress could not have foreseen all of today's
technologies and the myriad ways consumers and others engage with creative works in the
digital environment. Perhaps nowhere has the landscape been as significantly altered
as in the realm of music."
The CO asks questions about the
Section 115 statutory license
for the reproduction and distribution of musical works.
For example, the CO asks, "Would the music marketplace benefit if the Section 115
license were updated to permit licensing of musical works on a blanket basis by one or more
collective licensing entities, rather than on a song-by-song basis?"
The CO also asks questions about the "royalty ratesetting process and
standards applicable under the consent decrees governing ASCAP and BMI".
The CO also asks questions about the
Section 112 and
Section 114 statutory
licensing process, platform parity, and music licensing practices.
The CO also asks about income and revenue, and impacts upon investment. It
asks "How have developments in the music marketplace affected the income of
songwriters, composers, and recording artists?", and whether "Are revenues
attributable to the performance and sale of music fairly divided between
creators and distributors of musical works and sound recordings?".
It also asks how "In what ways are investment decisions by creators, music
publishers, and record labels, including the investment in the development of new
projects and talent, impacted by music licensing issues?", and "How do
licensing concerns impact the ability to invest in new distribution models?".
The CO also seeks information regarding "revenues attributable to the
consumption of music in different formats and through different distribution
channels, and the income earned by copyright owners".
And finally, it asks whether the federal government could "encourage the
adoption of universal standards for the identification of musical works and
sound recordings to facilitate the music licensing process".
While the CO asks numerous questions, it does not ask any questions regarding
myriad non-licensing music issues, such as fair use, the DMCA anti-circumvention
regime, the Section 512 limitation on liability relating to material online, the
Section 108 limitation on liability for libraries, the Section 121 limitation on
liability in connection with disability.
Finally, the CO does not seek public comment on whether the
Section 106 public
performance right should or should not extend, not only to satellite and internet, but
also to terrestrial broadcast radio. Rather, the CO informs the public that it thinks
that the public performance right in sound recordings should be extended to broadcast
radio.
However, the CO does ask "How do differences in the applicability of the
sound recording public performance right impact music licensing?"
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GSA Seeks Comments on Cyber Security Related
Regulation of Federal Suppliers |
3/12. The General Services Administration (GSA)
published a
notice in the Federal Register (FR) that requests public comments regarding "how
to implement" the "recommendations" contained in the joint GSA and
Department of Defense (DOD)
document titled "Final Report of the Joint Working Group on Improving
Cybersecurity and Resilience Through Acquisition".
The just released notice in the FR requests comments, but poses no specific
questions. The deadline to submit comments is April 28, 2014. See, FR, Vol. 79, No.
48, March 12, 2014, Page 14042.
This GSA/DOD report is dated November 2013. The GSA and DOD released it on
January 23, 2014.
First, this GSA/DOD document imposes requirements for cyber security in products and
services procured by the federal government. The federal government is tasked by
statute with maintaining cyber security in federal systems.
This document merely contains six broad, unspecified, and/or vague
requirements related to federal procurement.
This document requires that the federal government and federal suppliers
institute baseline cyber security requirements as a condition of contract award
for appropriate acquisitions, address cyber security in relevant training,
develop common cyber security definitions for federal acquisitions, institute a
federal acquisition cyber risk management strategy, include a requirement to
purchase from original equipment or component manufacturers, their authorized
resellers, or other trusted sources, for appropriate acquisitions, increase
government accountability for cyber risk management. Although, this document
provides no definitions, and imposes no specific requirements.
However, this document also creates a process that goes beyond federal
systems and federal procurement.
This document leverages the federal government procurement process to regulate
private sector cyber security practices unrelated to procurement.
This documents also creates regulatory processes that may be employed the
federal government, and lobbyists, to pursue policy goals unrelated to cyber security.
The Congress has not enacted a statute that gives the federal government
general regulatory authority with respect to the cyber security practices in the
private sector. In the 112th Congress, the House passed a bill, which the Senate
did not consider. The Senate considered, but did not pass, a much different
bill. It did not take up the House bill. The House has also passed a revised
version of its bill in the current Congress. See, HR 624
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113th Congress, and HR 3523
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with the same title, in the 112th Congress.
The Obama administration did not work with the Congress to enact general
cyber security laws, and then "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed".
Rather, the Obama administration proceeded to regulate by executive fiat.
The focus of House bills is incenting companies to share cyber threat information
with relevant government agencies. The focus of the Obama administration is government
regulation.
This GSA/DOD document states that it implements President Obama's
Executive Order (EO) 13636, titled "Improving Critical Cybersecurity
Infrastructure", and released in February of 2013. See also, story titled "Obama
Signs Cyber Security Order and Policy Directive" and related stories in
TLJ Daily E-Mail
Alert No. 2,525, February 19, 2013.
Section 8(e) of that EO states in full that "Within 120 days of the date of
this order, the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of General Services,
in consultation with the Secretary and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory
Council, shall make recommendations to the President, through the Assistant to
the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and the Assistant to
the President for Economic Affairs, on the feasibility, security benefits, and
relative merits of incorporating security standards into acquisition planning
and contract administration. The report shall address what steps can be taken to
harmonize and make consistent existing procurement requirements related to
cybersecurity."
However, the GSA/DOD document goes beyond this language. It states that it imposes
"requirements in both their own operations and in the products and services they
deliver" to the government. (See, page 7.) That is, the document imposes company
wide obligations on any company that does business with the federal government.
The GSA/DOD document also provides that the federal government may regulate not only
the supplier's products and services, but also may limit with whom they do business.
Their suppliers must be "trusted" and "authorized". And, the
document provides that this means government authorization. (See, page 18.)
In recent years the US government has allowed trade protectionism considerations
to creep into cyber security deliberations (as well as other ICT related processes,
such as OUSTR reviews of Section 337 exclusion orders). The GSA/DOD document sets
up a process that would be ripe for exploitation by US companies that would lobby to
limit foreign competition under the guise of cyber security.
While the document asserts authority to regulate company wide, including
non-procurement related, cyber security related practices of federal suppliers,
it contains few words regarding the likely consequences of such an assertion.
For example, the GSA/DOD document is silent regarding what impact its requirements
might have upon liability in civil litigation, and how anticipation of such
liability might be used to obtain compliance. For example, if a federal contractor
were sued in state or federal trial court for damages arising out of an alleged data
breach, what impact would compliance, or non-compliance, with the requirements set
by the GSA/DOD have upon that litigation?
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FTC Seeks Comments on Proposed COPPA Safe
Harbor |
3/19. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published
a notice
in the Federal Register (FR) and a
notice in its web site that request public comments on the
proposed guidelines [56 pages in PDF] submitted pursuant to the safe harbor provision
of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and FTC rules thereunder, by the
Internet Keep Safe Coalition, which is also named
iKeepSafe.
The text of the proposed guidelines published by the FTC for public comment redacts
information about the Coalition's budget, its price schedule for member companies, and
most of its questionnaire for member companies titled "Data Practices Assessment",
which assists it in assessing practices related to collection and handling of data from
users under 13.
The Coalition states in its web site that its "corporate partners" include,
among others, AT&T, Comcast, Facebook, Fox Interactive Media, Google, and
Microsoft.
The deadline to submit comments is April 21, 2014. See, FR, Vol. 79, No. 53, March 19,
2014, at Pages 15271-15272.
The COPPA, which is codified at
15 U.S.C.
§§ 6501-6506, bans operators of web sites and online services that are
directed to children from collecting information from children under thirteen
without parental consent.
The statute, at 15
U.S.C. § 6502, states that "It is unlawful for an operator of a website or
online service directed to children, or any operator that has actual knowledge
that it is collecting personal information from a child, to collect personal
information from a child in a manner that violates the regulations prescribed
under subsection (b) of this section."
Section 6503 provides for
the safe harbor. It provides in part that "An operator may satisfy the requirements of
regulations issued under section 6502(b) of this title by following a set of self-regulatory
guidelines, issued by representatives of the marketing or online industries, or
by other persons" that has been approved by the FTC.
The FTC has adopted and amended rules pursuant to this subsection (b), which
are codified at 16 CFR part 312. It last amended these rules in December of
2012. See, story titled "FTC Releases Expanded COPPA Rules" in
TLJ Daily E-Mail
Alert No. 2,494, December 19, 2012.
The FTC's safe harbor rule is codified at
16 CFR 312.10. It provides in
part that "An operator will be deemed to be in compliance with the requirements of this part
if that operator complies with self-regulatory guidelines, issued by representatives of the
marketing or online industries, or by other persons, that, after notice and comment, are
approved by the Commission."
The FTC asks in its FR notice, for example, "Are the mechanisms used to assess
operators' compliance with the proposed guidelines effective?", "Are the incentives
for operators' compliance with the proposed guidelines effective?", "Do the proposed
guidelines provide adequate means for resolving consumer complaints?", and "Does
iKeepSafe have the capability to run an effective safe harbor program?".
The FTC has approved six safe harbor programs submitted by Aristotle Inc., the Children’s
Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, the Entertainment
Software Rating Board, TrustE, PRIVO, and KidSAFE.
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This issue contains the following items:
• Copyright Office Seeks Comments on Music Licensing
• GSA Seeks Comments on Cyber Security Related Regulation of Federal Suppliers
• FTC Seeks Comments on Proposed COPPA Safe Harbor
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Washington Tech
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Wednesday, March 19 |
8:30 AM - 12:00 NOON. Day two of a two day meeting of the Department
of Commerce's (DOC) National Institute of Standards and
Technology's (NIST) Smart
Grid Advisory Committee (SGAC). See,
notice in
the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 40, February 28, 2014, at Pages 11417-11418. Location:
Portrait Room, Administration Building, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD.
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB)
will hold a hearing. The agenda includes "the PCLOB's study of the federal
government's surveillance program" under assertion of authority under
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. This is the outside
the US warrantless intercept provision, which is codified at
50 U.S.C. § 1881a.
Open to the public. See,
notice
in the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 46, March 10, 2014, at Page 13334. Location:
Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Ave., NW.
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Day two of a three day meeting of the
Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Radio
Technical Commission for Aeronautics' (RTCA) Special Committee 147, Minimum
Operational Performance Standards for Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance
Systems Airborne Equipment. See,
notice
in the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 37, February 25, 2014, at Pages 10599-10600.
Location: RTCA, Suite 910, 1150 18th St., NW.
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Day three of a four day meeting of the
Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Radio
Technical Commission for Aeronautics' (RTCA) Special Committee 186, Automatic
Dependent Surveillance -- Broadcast. See,
notice
in the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 41, March 3, 2014, at Pages 11863-11864.
Location: RTCA, Suite 910, 1150 18th St., NW.
10:30 AM - 12:00 NOON. The Heritage
Foundation (HF) will host a panel discussion titled "Preview of the
President’s Asia Trip". See,
notice.
Location: HF, 214, Massachusetts Ave., NE.
12:00 NOON - 1:30 PM. The Information
Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) >will
host a panel discussion titled "The National Broadband Plan: Four Years
Later". The speakers will include Doug Brake (ITIF), Jamie Barnett (Venable),
John Horrigan (consultant), Blair Levin (Aspen Institute), Steve Midgley (Mixrun),
and Nick Sinai (EOP OSTP). Webcast. Free. Open to the public. Lunch will be served. See,
notice. Location: ITIF/ITIC, Suite 610A, 1101 K St., NW.
EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 6. Extended deadline to submit
initial comments in response to Section IV.B of the Federal Communications Commission's
(FCC) Further
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) regarding special access. Section IV.B
pertains to "Possible Changes to Pricing Flexibility Rules after Proposed One-Time,
Multi-Faceted Market Analysis". The FCC adopted this item on December 11, 2012, and
released it on December 18, 2012. It is FCC 12-153 in WC Docket No. 05-25 and RM-10593.
See, original
notice in the Federal Register (FR), Vol. 78, No. 8 January 11, 2013, at Pages
2600-2614, setting deadlines. See also, July 2013 Public Notice extending deadlines.
See, notice in
FR, Vol. 79, No. 52, March 18, 2014, at Pages 15092-15093, and March 5, 2014
Public Notice (DA 14-302), further extending deadlines.
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Thursday, March 20 |
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM. The Department of Commerce's (DOC)
National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA) and the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) will host an event titled "First Public Meeting on
the Establishment of a Multistakeholder Forum on Improving the Operation of the Notice
and Takedown System Under the DMCA". The notice and takedown regime is
codified at 17 U.S.C. § 512.
See, notice
in the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 47, March 11, 2014, at Pages 13644-13645.
Location: USPTO, Madison Building, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA.
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Day three of a three day meeting of the
Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Radio
Technical Commission for Aeronautics' (RTCA) Special Committee 147, Minimum
Operational Performance Standards for Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance
Systems Airborne Equipment. See,
notice
in the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 37, February 25, 2014, at Pages 10599-10600.
Location: RTCA, Suite 910, 1150 18th St., NW.
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Day four of a four day meeting of the
Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Radio
Technical Commission for Aeronautics' (RTCA) Special Committee 186, Automatic
Dependent Surveillance -- Broadcast. See,
notice
in the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 41, March 3, 2014, at Pages 11863-11864.
Location: RTCA, Suite 910, 1150 18th St., NW.
1:00 - 5:00 PM. The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC)
Communications Security,
Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) IV will meet. The FCC's
notice states
that "Votes are scheduled on reports for Working Group 3 on Emergency Alerting, Working
Group 7 on Legacy Best Practices, and Working Group 9 on Infrastructure Sharing During
Emergencies. In addition, Working Group 4 Cybersecurity Best Practices, will begin their
work to recommend consensus-based best practices that implement the NIST Cybersecurity
Framework". See, Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 40, February 28, 2014, at Pages
11431-11432. Location: FCC, Commission Meeting Room, Room TW-C305, 445 12th St., SW.
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Friday, March 21 |
9:00 AM. The Senate will meet in pro forma session.
Supreme Court conference day.
Deadline to file written submission with the
U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC)
regarding its investigation titled "Digital Trade in the U.S. and Global
Economies". See, USITC
release,
and notice
in the Federal Register, Vol. 78, No. 162, August 21, 2013, at Pages 51744-51746. See
also, story titled "USITC Releases First Report on Digital Trade" in
TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert
No. 2,589, August 26, 2013.
Deadline to submit initial comments to the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) in response to its
Notice of Inquiry (NOI) requesting public comments to assist it in preparing its
16th report on the status of competition in the market for the delivery of video
programming. This NOI is FCC 14-8 in MB Docket No. 14-16. The FCC adopted this NOI
on January 30, 2014, and released the text on January 31, 2014. See also,
notice
in the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 29, February 12, 2014, at Pages 8452-8457.
Deadline to submit initial comments to the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) regarding "Experiment Proposals". See, Part III of the FCC's huge
item [114 pages in PDF] adopted on January 30, 2014, and released on January 31,
regarding technology transitions in voice communications. This item is FCC 14-5
in GN Docket No. 13-5 and WC Docket Nos. 10-90 and 13-97.
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Monday, March 24 |
The House will meet the week of March 24-28. See, 2014 House
calendar.
The Senate will meet at 2:00 PM.
1:00 - 3:15 PM. The The
Brookings Institution (BI) will host
an event titled "Wireless Spectrum and the Future of Technology
Innovation". The speakers will include Tom Wheeler (FCC Chairman). See,
notice. Location: BI, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW.
4:30 PM. The
House Intelligence Committee
(HIC) will hold a closed hearing on undisclosed matters titled "Ongoing
Intelligence Activities". No webcast. See,
notice. Location: HVC-304, Capitol Building.
Deadline to submit requests to testify at the National Foundation on Arts
and the Humanities' (NFAH) Institute of Museum and
Library Services (IMLS) April 17 hearing titled "Libraries and Broadband:
Urgency and Impact". The purpose of this hearing is "establishing a public
record specifically focused on the need for and impact of high speed broadband
connectivity in America's libraries". See,
notice in
the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 47, March 11, 2014, at Pages 13679-13680. See also,
the FCC's 2013
NPRM
and March 2014
Public Notice (PN)
regarding expanding the FCC's e-rate tax and subsidy program.
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Tuesday, March 25 |
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Day one of a three day event hosted by the
Department of Commerce's (DOC) National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) titled "Intersection of Cloud and
Mobility Forum and Workshop". Open to the public. The deadline to register
is 5:00 PM on March 17. See,
event
web site and
notice in the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 47, March 11, 2014, at Pages
13622-13623. Location: NIST, Red Auditorium, Building 101, 100 Bureau Drive,
Gaithersburg, MD.
10:00 AM. The Department of Commerce's (DOC) President's Export
Council Subcommittee on Export Administration (PECSEA) will hold a partially closed
meeting to discuss the Bureau of Industry
and Security's (BIS) export regulation regime. See,
notice
in the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 47, March 11, 2014, at Pages 13612-13613.
Location: DOC, Room 4830, Hoover Building, 14th Street between Pennsylvania and
Constitution Avenues, NW.
12:15 - 1:45 PM. The New America
Foundation (NAF) will host a panel discussion titled "Transatlantic Solutions
to Government Surveillance". The speakers will be Konstantin von Notz (Member
of German Parliament), Jan Philipp Albrecht (Member of European Parliament), Malte Spitz
(German Green Party), and Kevin Bankston (NAF). Webcast. Free. Open to the public. See,
notice. Location: NAF, Suite 400, 1899 L St., NW.
1:00 - 5:00 PM. The Department of Commerce's (DOC)
National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA) will host one of its series of meetings regarding
privacy and facial recognition technology. See,
notice
in the Federal Register, Vol. 78, No. 235, December 6, 2013, at Pages 73502-73503.
Location: American Institute of Architects, 1735 New York Ave., NW.
2:00 PM. The
House Appropriations Committee's (HAC) Subcommittee on Financial Services and
General Government will hold a hearing on the budget for the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC). The witnesses will be Thomas Wheeler and Ajit Pai. See,
notice.
Location: Room B-308, Rayburn Building.
2:30 PM. The Senate
Intelligence Committee (SIC) will hold a closed hearing on undisclosed matters. See,
notice. Location: Room 219, Hart Building.
Deadline to submit nominations (and written comments regarding
nominations) to the Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative (OUSTR) for membership on its Public Interest Trade Advisory
Committee. See,
notice in the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 37, February 25, 2014, at Pages
10596-10598.
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Wednesday, March 26 |
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Day two of a three day event hosted by the
Department of Commerce's (DOC) National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST) titled "Intersection of Cloud and
Mobility Forum and Workshop". Open to the public. The deadline to register
is 5:00 PM on March 17. See,
event
web site and
notice in the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 47, March 11, 2014, at Pages
13622-13623. Location: NIST, Red Auditorium, Building 101, 100 Bureau Drive,
Gaithersburg, MD.
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM. The Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS)
Office of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology's (ONC/HIT) HIT Standards Committee will meet. See,
notice in
the Federal Register, Vol. 78, No. 243, December 18, 2013, at Page 76627-76628.
10:00 AM. The Senate Judiciary
Committee (SJC) will hold a hearing titled "Reauthorization of the Satellite
Television Extension and Localism Act". The witnesses will be __. Webcast. See,
notice. Location: Room 226, Dirksen Building.
10:00 AM. The
Senate Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee (SHSGAC) will hold a hearing titled
"Strengthening Public Private Partnerships to Reduce Cyber Risks to Our
Nation’s Critical Infrastructure". The witnesses will be __. See,
notice. Location: Room 342, Dirksen Building.
1:30 PM. The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) North
American Numbering Council (NANC) will hold a closed meeting. The agenda
is selection of the Local Number Portability Administrator. See,
notice
in the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 49, March 13, 2014, at Pages 14250-14251.
Location: FCC, Room CY-A257, 445 12th St., SW.
Deadline to submit comments to the Department of Transportation (DOT)
in response to its
Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) regarding banning voice communications
on passengers' mobile wireless devices on flights. See,
notice in
the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 36, February 24, 2014, at Pages 10049-10054.
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Thursday, March 27 |
9:00 AM. The
House Intelligence Committee (HIC) will
hold a closed hearing on undisclosed matters titled "Ongoing Intelligence
Activities". No webcast. See,
notice. Location: HVC-304, Capitol Building.
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM. Day three of a three day event hosted by the
Department of Commerce's (DOC) National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST) titled "Intersection of Cloud and
Mobility Forum and Workshop". Open to the public. The deadline to register
is 5:00 PM on March 17. See,
event
web site and
notice in the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 47, March 11, 2014, at Pages
13622-13623. Location: NIST, Red Auditorium, Building 101, 100 Bureau Drive,
Gaithersburg, MD.
10:00 AM. The
Senate Judiciary Committee
(SJC) will hold an executive business meeting. The agenda includes consideration of
S 1720 [LOC |
WW], the
"Patent Transparency and Improvements Act of 2013". The
agenda also includes consideration the nominations of Gregg Costa (to
be a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit), Tanya Chutkan
(USCD/DC), Hannah Lauck (USDC/EDVa), and Leo Sorokin (USCD/DMass).Webcast. See,
notice. Location: Room 226, Dirksen Building.
10:00 AM. The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) North
American Numbering Council (NANC) will meet. See,
notice
in the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 50, March 14, 2014, at Pages 14511-14512.
Location: FCC, Room 5-C162, 445 12th St., SW.
2:30 PM. The Senate
Intelligence Committee (SIC) will hold a closed hearing on undisclosed matters. See,
notice. Location: Room 219, Hart Building.
Deadline to submit to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
oppositions to the petition
for reconsideration of the FCC's
Report and
Order regarding reliability and resiliency of 911 networks filed by Intrado,
Inc. on February 18, 2014. The FCC adopted and released its order on December 12, 2013.
It is FCC 13-158 in PS Docket Nos. 13-75 and 11-60. See,
notice
in the Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 48, March 12, 2014, at Pages 13975-13976.
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