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Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 60 / Wednesday, March 28, 2012 / Rules and Regulations
Dated: March 15, 2012.
Paul F. Thomas,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Acting Director
of Prevention Policy.
b. Remove and reserve paragraph
(b)(5)(ii); and
■ c. Remove paragraph (b)(5)(iii).
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§ 187.101 What information must be
collected to identify a vessel owner?
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(a) * * *
(4) Owner identifier, which must be
the owner’s tax identification number,
date of birth together with driver’s
license number, or date of birth together
with other unique number.
(b) * * *
(5) * * *
(i) Owner identifier, which must be
the owner’s tax identification number,
date of birth together with driver’s
license number, or date of birth together
with other unique number.
■ 34. Revise § 187.103 to read as
follows:
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§ 187.103 What information must be
collected to identify a vessel?
A participating State must collect the
following information on a vessel it has
numbered or titled and make it available
to VIS:
(a) Manufacturer’s hull identification
number, if any.
(b) Official number, if any, assigned
by the Coast Guard or its predecessor.
(c) Number on certificate of number
assigned by the issuing authority of the
State.
(d) Expiration date of certificate of
number.
(e) Number previously issued by an
issuing authority.
(f) Make and model of vessel.
(g) Model year.
(h) Overall length of vessel.
(i) Vessel type: Authorized terms are
‘‘air boat’’, ‘‘auxiliary sail’’, ‘‘cabin
motorboat’’, ‘‘houseboat’’, ‘‘inflatable
boat’’, ‘‘open motorboat’’, ‘‘paddlecraft’’,
‘‘personal watercraft’’, ‘‘pontoon boat’’,
‘‘rowboat’’, ‘‘sail only’’, or ‘‘other’’.
(j) Hull material: Authorized terms are
‘‘aluminum’’, ‘‘fiberglass’’, ‘‘plastic’’,
‘‘rubber/vinyl/canvas’’, ‘‘steel’’, ‘‘wood’’,
or ‘‘other’’.
(k) Propulsion type: Authorized terms
are ‘‘air thrust’’, ‘‘manual’’, ‘‘propeller’’,
‘‘sail’’, ‘‘water jet’’, or ‘‘other’’.
(l) Engine drive type: Authorized
terms are ‘‘inboard’’, ‘‘outboard’’, ‘‘pod
drive’’, ‘‘sterndrive’’, or ’’other’’.
(m) Fuel: Authorized terms are
‘‘electric’’, ‘‘diesel’’, ‘‘gas’’, or ‘‘other’’.
(n) Primary operation: Authorized
terms are, ‘‘charter fishing’’,
‘‘commercial fishing’’, ‘‘commercial
passenger carrying’’, ‘‘dealer or
manufacturer demonstration’’, ‘‘other
commercial operation’’, ‘‘pleasure’’, or
‘‘rent or lease’’.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Copyright Office
37 CFR Part 201
[Docket No. RM 2011–9]
Fees
Copyright Office, Library of
Congress.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
The Copyright Office of the
Library of Congress is publishing a final
rule establishing an additional fee for a
particular service: Travel expenses in
connection with educational activities.
DATES: Effective Date: March 28, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David O. Carson, General Counsel, P.O.
Box 70400, Washington, DC 20024–
0400, Telephone: (202) 707–8380.
Telefax: (202) 707–8366.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Background
This final rule adjusts Copyright
Office’s schedule of fees by adding a fee
for travel expenses in connection with
participation by Copyright Office
personnel in various educational
activities when participation has been
requested by another organization or
person and that organization or person
has agreed to reimburse the Office for
travel expenses. As the office
administering the nation’s records of
copyright ownership and as the advisor
to Congress, the federal departments
and agencies and the judiciary on
national and international issues
relating to copyright, the Copyright
Office has long considered informing
and educating the public on copyright
issues to be a strategic goal. In
furtherance of that goal, the Office has
long engaged in various educational
programs to inform the public on
copyright issues. The Office performs
these activities under its broader
authority set forth in 17 U.S.C.
701(b)(4), which directs the Office to
‘‘[c]onduct studies and programs
regarding copyright, other matters
arising under this title, and related
matters, the administration of the
Copyright Office, or any function vested
in the Copyright Office by law,
including educational programs
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conducted cooperatively with foreign
intellectual property offices and
international intergovernmental
organizations.’’
Frequently, the Register of Copyrights
and other Copyright Office employees
are requested to travel to speak to
various groups of authors, copyright
owners, their representatives, users of
copyrighted works, and other members
of the public to provide information
about the activities of the Copyright
Office, including copyright registration
and recordation, the statutory licenses,
pending and enacted copyright
legislation, Copyright Office regulations,
international copyright developments,
significant copyright litigation matters,
etc. Because the Copyright Office has
limited travel funds and because various
organizations consider it highly
beneficial to host presentations by
Copyright Office officials, it has been
the general practice of the Office to
request that the sponsoring organization
or person pay the travel expenses of the
Copyright Office personnel. More often
than not, the Office’s limited travel
funds would not permit the Office to
send anyone to participate in such
programs unless the sponsoring
organization or person is willing to pay
those expenses.
This regulation codifies the authority
for payment of those travel expenses. It
adds a new paragraph (f) to the
Copyright Office fee schedule in § 201.3
of the Code of Federal Regulations, and
provides that the Copyright Office shall
charge a fee, consistent with the Federal
Travel Regulations (FTR) set forth in
Chapters 300 through 304 of Title 41 of
the Code of Federal Regulations as well
as other applicable laws and
regulations, to cover the travel expenses
of Copyright Office personnel, in
connection with Copyright Office
educational activities when
participation by Copyright Office
personnel has been requested by
another person or organization which
has agreed to pay such expenses. The
fee may be no greater than the amount
authorized under the FTR.
The Office is also making a technical
amendment to paragraph (b)(2) of
§ 201.3, changing the reference to
section 708(a)(10) of title 17 of the U.S.
Code. Due to amendments to section
708, that reference has been changed to
section 708(a).
Because this regulatory amendment
simply codifies a longstanding practice
and is necessary in order to permit
uninterrupted operation of the Office’s
ongoing educational activities, the
Register concludes that providing notice
and opportunity for comment would be
impracticable, unnecessary and contrary
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to the public interest. For similar
reasons and in order to minimize
disruptions in the Office’s educational
activities, the Register finds that there is
good cause to make the rule effective
immediately upon publication.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
List of Subjects in 37 CFR Part 201
Discontinuance of Form CO in
Registration Practices
Copyright, General provisions.
Copyright Office
37 CFR Parts 201 and 202
[Docket No. 2011–8]
Copyright Office, Library of
Congress.
ACTION: Final rule.
Final Rule
AGENCY:
In consideration of the foregoing, part
201 of 37 CFR chapter II is amended as
follows:
SUMMARY:
PART 201—GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. The authority citation for part 201
continues to read as follows:
■
Authority: 17 U.S.C. 702.
2 Amend § 201.3 as follows:
■ a. In paragraph (b)(2) by removing
‘‘708(a)(10)’’ and adding ‘‘708(a)’’ in its
place.
■ b. By adding new paragraph (f) as
follows:
■
§ 201.3 Fees for registration, recordation,
and related services, special services, and
services performed by the Licensing
Division.
*
*
*
*
*
(f) Fees for travel in connection with
educational activities. For travel
expenses in connection with Copyright
Office educational activities when
participation by Copyright Office
personnel has been requested by
another organization or person and that
organization or person has agreed to pay
such expenses, collection of the fee
shall be subject to, and the amount of
the fee shall be no greater than, the
amount authorized under the Federal
Travel Regulations found in Chapters
300 through 304 of Title 41.
Dated: March 12, 2012.
Maria A. Pallante,
Register of Copyrights.
Dated: March 19, 2012.
Approved by:
James H. Billington,
The Librarian of Congress.
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The United States Copyright
Office is amending its regulations in
order to discontinue use of the Form CO
application as an option for applying for
copyright registration, and in order to
remove references to CON 1 and CON 2
continuation sheets. The removal of
Form CO leaves applicants a choice of
filing an application for registration
electronically or by using the
appropriate printed application form
relating to the subject matter of the
application. The amendment also
removes the references to CON 1 and
CON 2 continuation sheets, which were
never developed or made available to
the public; the regulations instead now
refer only to the continuation sheets
currently available for applicants filing
paper applications and makes other
housekeeping amendments relating to
applications for copyright registration.
DATES: Effective Date: July 1, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tanya Sandros, Deputy General
Counsel, Copyright Office, GC/I&R, P.O.
Box 70400, Washington, DC 20024.
Telephone: (202) 707–8380. Telefax:
(202) 707–8366. All prior Federal
Register notices and comments in this
docket are available at https://
www.copyright.gov/docs/formco/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In 2007, the Copyright Office began an
extensive business process
reengineering initiative that had an
impact on a variety of registrationrelated activities. See 72 FR 36883 (July
6, 2007). As part of this initiative, the
Office promulgated interim regulations
regarding how the public submits and
the Office processes copyright
applications. In these interim
regulations, the Office announced four
ways to file an application for
registration. At the time, the Office used
the term ‘‘Form CO’’ generically in its
regulations to cover all four approaches
to registration. With the implementation
of the new electronic registration
practices, however, Form CO was used
to describe a specific form that is filled
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out on a computer and that uses
barcodes to capture the information
entered by the person filling out the
form. After completing the form, the
applicant prints it out and submits the
paper form to the Copyright Office. This
newer incarnation of Form CO, first
made available in 2008, was intended to
simplify the application process and
replace the traditional paper Forms TX,
VA, PA, SR, and SE. See 72 FR at 36885;
37 CFR 202.3(b)(2)(ii). However,
following the implementation of
reengineering, it eventually became
clear (for reasons discussed below) that
Form CO did not live up to its
expectations because many users of the
form made entries on the form that were
not captured in the barcodes and
therefore were not carried over into the
Office’s registration records and because
of problems with printing the forms.
The regulations promulgated in 2007
also referred to two additional
continuation sheets, CON 1 and CON 2,
which the Office intended to be used in
connection with Form CO and which
would have allowed applicants to
provide additional information that
would not fit within the barcodes to be
generated by Form CO. See 72 FR at
36886. However, the Office never
developed these new continuation
sheets and continued to accept the
traditional Form CON for the provision
of additional information. See https://
www.copyright.gov/forms/formcon.pdf.
On September 30, 2011, the Copyright
Office published a notice of proposed
rulemaking and request for comments in
regard to Form CO, CON 1, and CON 2.
76 FR 60774. The Office proposed
eliminating Form CO as an application
option and removing references to CON
1 and CON 2. Form CO, the Office
pointed out, is not widely used, but it
does present a disproportionate number
of problems for the Office. As is
explained in greater detail in the notice
of proposed rulemaking, when
applicants find they need to amend
information on Form CO after preparing
and printing the form but before
submitting it, they frequently make
changes by writing directly on the form
rather than redoing or revising the form
correctly online. As a result, additional
time and resources are required for the
Office to manually input the amended
information into the system, or it may
be missed in the ingestion process
altogether. Either way, the added time
required to detect and correct these
problems defeats all the efficiencies
promised by this technology.
Nor is human error the only concern.
The notice of proposed rulemaking also
noted that the use of barcodes presents
other unique problems associated with
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Copyright Office
37 CFR Part 201
[Docket No. RM 2011-9]
Fees
AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is publishing
a final rule establishing an additional fee for a particular service:
Travel expenses in connection with educational activities.
DATES: Effective Date: March 28, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David O. Carson, General Counsel, P.O.
Box 70400, Washington, DC 20024-0400, Telephone: (202) 707-8380.
Telefax: (202) 707-8366.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
This final rule adjusts Copyright Office's schedule of fees by
adding a fee for travel expenses in connection with participation by
Copyright Office personnel in various educational activities when
participation has been requested by another organization or person and
that organization or person has agreed to reimburse the Office for
travel expenses. As the office administering the nation's records of
copyright ownership and as the advisor to Congress, the federal
departments and agencies and the judiciary on national and
international issues relating to copyright, the Copyright Office has
long considered informing and educating the public on copyright issues
to be a strategic goal. In furtherance of that goal, the Office has
long engaged in various educational programs to inform the public on
copyright issues. The Office performs these activities under its
broader authority set forth in 17 U.S.C. 701(b)(4), which directs the
Office to ``[c]onduct studies and programs regarding copyright, other
matters arising under this title, and related matters, the
administration of the Copyright Office, or any function vested in the
Copyright Office by law, including educational programs conducted
cooperatively with foreign intellectual property offices and
international intergovernmental organizations.''
Frequently, the Register of Copyrights and other Copyright Office
employees are requested to travel to speak to various groups of
authors, copyright owners, their representatives, users of copyrighted
works, and other members of the public to provide information about the
activities of the Copyright Office, including copyright registration
and recordation, the statutory licenses, pending and enacted copyright
legislation, Copyright Office regulations, international copyright
developments, significant copyright litigation matters, etc. Because
the Copyright Office has limited travel funds and because various
organizations consider it highly beneficial to host presentations by
Copyright Office officials, it has been the general practice of the
Office to request that the sponsoring organization or person pay the
travel expenses of the Copyright Office personnel. More often than not,
the Office's limited travel funds would not permit the Office to send
anyone to participate in such programs unless the sponsoring
organization or person is willing to pay those expenses.
This regulation codifies the authority for payment of those travel
expenses. It adds a new paragraph (f) to the Copyright Office fee
schedule in Sec. 201.3 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and
provides that the Copyright Office shall charge a fee, consistent with
the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR) set forth in Chapters 300 through
304 of Title 41 of the Code of Federal Regulations as well as other
applicable laws and regulations, to cover the travel expenses of
Copyright Office personnel, in connection with Copyright Office
educational activities when participation by Copyright Office personnel
has been requested by another person or organization which has agreed
to pay such expenses. The fee may be no greater than the amount
authorized under the FTR.
The Office is also making a technical amendment to paragraph (b)(2)
of Sec. 201.3, changing the reference to section 708(a)(10) of title
17 of the U.S. Code. Due to amendments to section 708, that reference
has been changed to section 708(a).
Because this regulatory amendment simply codifies a longstanding
practice and is necessary in order to permit uninterrupted operation of
the Office's ongoing educational activities, the Register concludes
that providing notice and opportunity for comment would be
impracticable, unnecessary and contrary
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to the public interest. For similar reasons and in order to minimize
disruptions in the Office's educational activities, the Register finds
that there is good cause to make the rule effective immediately upon
publication.
List of Subjects in 37 CFR Part 201
Copyright, General provisions.
Final Rule
In consideration of the foregoing, part 201 of 37 CFR chapter II is
amended as follows:
PART 201--GENERAL PROVISIONS
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1. The authority citation for part 201 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 17 U.S.C. 702.
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2 Amend Sec. 201.3 as follows:
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a. In paragraph (b)(2) by removing ``708(a)(10)'' and adding ``708(a)''
in its place.
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b. By adding new paragraph (f) as follows:
Sec. 201.3 Fees for registration, recordation, and related services,
special services, and services performed by the Licensing Division.
* * * * *
(f) Fees for travel in connection with educational activities. For
travel expenses in connection with Copyright Office educational
activities when participation by Copyright Office personnel has been
requested by another organization or person and that organization or
person has agreed to pay such expenses, collection of the fee shall be
subject to, and the amount of the fee shall be no greater than, the
amount authorized under the Federal Travel Regulations found in
Chapters 300 through 304 of Title 41.
Dated: March 12, 2012.
Maria A. Pallante,
Register of Copyrights.
Dated: March 19, 2012.
Approved by:
James H. Billington,
The Librarian of Congress.
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