Copyright Office Needs IT Overhaul, Independence, Says Taxpayers Protection Alliance
The Copyright Office is "struggling to keep up" with the pace of technological change in the copyright industry, said Michi Iljazi, Taxpayers Protection Alliance communications and policy manager, in a Hill op-ed Thursday. “The question isn’t whether the Copyright Office…
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should be fixed, it is how the US Copyright Office can make needed changes to be fully capable of dealing with the creative forces that are driving today’s knowledge based economy.” That’s not a “herculean task,” but a matter of “updating their IT systems and optimizing the technology,” Iljazi said. He added that the CO should have “greater independence” from the Library of Congress: “This arrangement may have outlived its usefulness.”