Who Is The Current Register Of Copyright

Director of the United States Copyright Office

Register of Copyrights
Incumbent Shira Perlmutter
United States Copyright Part
Appointer	Librarian of Congress
Constituting musical instrument	17 U.s.a.C. § 701
Inaugural holder	Thorvald Solberg
Formation	1897
Salary	governed by five UsC. § 5314
Website	copyright.gov

The Register of Copyrights is the director of the United States Copyright Office within the Library of Congress, every bit provided past 17 U.S.C. § 701. The Office has been headed by a Register since 1897. The Register is appointed by, and responsible to, the Librarian of Congress.

Although the championship suggests a clerical office, Registers of Copyrights have been responsible for creating the procedures and practices of the Copyright Office and establishing standards for registration of copyright. They have increasingly been responsible for setting or influencing United States copyright policy. Today the Register is responsible for administering rulemaking procedures and producing authoritative interpretations of some aspects of U.S. copyright law, too as advising the Librarian of Congress on the triennial proceeding on exceptions to the anticircumvention rules of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The Register also routinely testifies before Congress on copyright policy matters.

As of October 2020,^[update] the position is held past Shira Perlmutter, who took office October 25, 2020.^[i]

On April 26, 2017, the House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill that, if approved by the Senate, will brand Annals of Copyrights a position that is filled past presidential engagement with Senate confirmation, rather than appointed by the Librarian of Congress—a policy that has been in place since the establishment of the Copyright Office, and impose a maximum term of 10 years. The bill has been supported by the entertainment industry and other groups (including the MPAA and RIAA), equally the new option process would give them the opportunity to lobby for a Register of Copyrights that aligns with their interests in stronger copyright protection. These effects have been the basis of opposition towards the bill past politicians, and groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge, which feel that the pecker would give corporate stakeholders a higher level of influence over U.S. copyright policies, rather than balancing the laws to run into the needs of the public.^[2] ^[three] ^[4]

List of Registers of Copyrights [edit]

No.	Name	Commencement of term	End of term	Length of term	Notes
one	Thorvald Solberg	July 22, 1897	April 21, 1930	11,961 days	Longest serving Register (32 years, nine months)
2	William Lincoln Brown	June 4, 1934	July one, 1936	759 days
3	Clement Lincoln Bouvé	August ane, 1936	December 31, 1943	2,699 days
–	Richard Crosby De Wolf	January 1, 1944	February i, 1945	398 days	First acting Register
4	Sam Bass Warner	Feb one, 1945	May 28, 1951	ii,308 days
–	Arthur Fisher	May 28, 1951	September 12, 1951	108 days	First acting Register to go on to presume the official role Shortest term every bit acting Annals (3 months, 9 days)
5	Arthur Fisher	September 12, 1951 ^[5]	Nov 12, 1960 ^[6]	3,350 days
6	Abraham L. Kaminstein	Dec 24, 1960	August 31, 1971	3,903 days
vii	George D. Cary	September 1, 1971 ^[vi]	March 9, 1973 ^[7]	556 days
–	Abe Goldman	March x, 1973	November 19, 1973	255 days	Interim Annals
8	Barbara Ringer	Nov 19, 1973	May 30, 1980	2,385 days	First female Register. Ringer brought a sex bigotry suit that resulted in her being named to the position.^[8]
nine	David Ladd	June ii, 1980	January 2, 1985	1,676 days	The only person to caput both the U.South. Copyright Office and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (and so the U.S. Patent Function). Prior to becoming Register of Copyrights, Ladd served as the U.S. Commissioner of Patents from 1961 to 1963.
–	Donald Curran	January iii, 1985	September 10, 1985	251 days	Interim Register
10	Ralph Oman	September 23, 1985	January 8, 1994	3,031 days
–	Barbara Ringer	November 27, 1993	August 6, 1994	253 days	Simply former Register to return to service as interim Register
11	Marybeth Peters	Baronial 7, 1994	December 31, 2010	v,991 days
–	Maria Pallante	Jan 1, 2011	May 31, 2011	151 days	Interim Register
12	Maria Pallante	June one, 2011	October 21, 2016	1,970 days
–	Karyn Temple	October 21, 2016	March 26, 2019	887 days	Longest serving interim Annals (ii years, five months, 6 days)
13	Karyn Temple	March 27, 2019	January 4, 2020	284 days	Shortest-serving Register (ix months, 8 days)
–	Maria Strong	January five, 2020	October 24, 2020	294 days	Acting Annals
14	Shira Perlmutter	October 25, 2020	incumbent	577 days (to date)

References [edit]

^ "U.Due south. Copyright Part Welcomes New Register". Copyright Role NewsNet. No. 857. U.S. Copyright Office. October 26, 2020. Retrieved Oct 26, 2020.
^ "Big content cheers as Congress votes on changes to Us Copyright Office". Ars Technica . Retrieved 27 April 2017.
^ "House Passes Copyright Function Reform Neb". Broadcasting & Cablevision . Retrieved 27 Apr 2017.
^ "Congress is trying to give even more power to Hollywood". The Verge . Retrieved 27 April 2017.
^ Patry, William F. (1994). Copyright Law and Practise. Greenwood Press. p. 1212. ISBN978-0-87179-855-8.
^ ^a ^b Patry, William F. (1994). Copyright Police force and Practice. Greenwood Press. p. 1215. ISBN978-0-87179-855-8.
^ "George D. Cary". U.S. Copyright Part. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
^ Hall, Alison (November nineteen, 2019). "Barbara Ringer: Beyond the ©". Copyright Creativity at Work. Library of Congress. Retrieved January 9, 2020.

Sources [edit]

"Congressional Testimony by Annals of Copyrights". United States Copyright Role. Retrieved 2008-08-30 .
United States Lawmaking. 17 U.S.C. § 701.