To discuss the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) notice-and-takedown...

To discuss the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) notice-and-takedown provisions, the Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and NTIA scheduled a forum March 20, in Alexandria, Va., said a Commerce announcement (http://bit.ly/MYXMPm). The forum will be on the Commerce Department’s green paper on copyright, and is one of series planned for “approximately every six weeks, alternating between the USPTO main campus and Silicon Valley, at a location to be announced,” it said. Other green paper items, such as remixes, first-sale doctrine and statutory damages, will be discussed at upcoming meetings, it said. The goal of the meetings is for stakeholders to arrive at an “agreed outcome” on the DMCA’s notice and takedown provisions “by the end of 2014,” it said. Statutory damages and the first-sale doctrine were points of contention at the last green paper forum in December (CD Dec 13 p11).