The University of Michigan Library Copyright Office advocates for copyright policy that benefits scholarship, research, the library, and the university. Our responses to notices of inquiry and other requests for comment are listed below.
- Comment in Response to Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Mandatory Deposit of Electronic-Only Books, July 16, 2018 (PDF)
- Exemptions to Permit Circumvention of Access Controls on Copyrighted Works (Docket No. 2017-10)
- Petition to Renew a Current Exemption: Motion Pictures for educational uses by college and university instructors and students, July 27, 2017 (PDF)
- Petition to Renew a Current Exemption: Literary works distributed electronically (i.e., e-books), for use with assistive technologies for persons who are blind, visually impaired, or have print disabilities, July 28, 2017 (PDF)
- Petition to Renew a Current Exemption: Video games for which outside server support has been discontinued, to allow individual play by gamers and preservation of games by libraries, archives, and museums (as well as necessary jailbreaking of console computer code for preservation uses only), July 28, 2017 (PDF)
- Study on the Moral Rights of Attribution and Integrity (Docket No. 2017-2), Reply Comment, May 15, 2017 (PDF)
- Mandatory Deposit of Electronic Books and Sound Recordings Available Only Online (Docket No. 2016-3), August 18, 2016 (PDF)
- Mass Digitization Pilot Program; Request for Comments (Docket No. 2015–3), U.S. Copyright Office, October 8, 2015 (PDF)
- Orphan Works and Mass Digitization: Response to Notice of Inquiry (77 F.R. 204) (Docket No. 2012-12), US Copyright Office, February 4, 2013 (PDF). Comments of Paul N. Courant prepared with support of U-M Library Copyright Office regarding orphan works, mass digitization, and copyright.
- Orphan Works and Mass Digitization: Response to Notice of Inquiry (77 F.R. 204) (Docket No. 2012-12), US Copyright Office, February 1, 2013. (ABA) (PDF). Prepared by ABA Copyright Policy working group chaired by Melissa Levine; submitted by Joseph M. Potenza, Section Chair, American Bar Association, Section of Intellectual Property Law.
- Notice of Inquiry and Request for Comments, Docket No. RM 2-11-7 (PDF), Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies, November 29, 2011
- Response to Inquiry on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Internet Economy. Docket # 100910448-0448-01, Patent and Trademark Office, NTIAA, November 19, 2010.
- Coordination and Strategic Planning of the Federal Register Effort Against Intellectual Property Infringement: Request of the Intellectual Property Coordinator for Public Comments Regarding the Joint Strategic (DOCID: fr23fi10-127) (PDF), March 23, 2010.
- Request for Public Comment on Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (PDF), January 4, 2010 (Paul Courant to Diane DiEuliis)
- University of Michigan Responses to House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property “Survey of Network and Data Integrity Practices,” (PDF) May 31, 2007.
