House Judiciary Plans Hearing on Copyright Office, Which Issues Modernization Study
The House Judiciary Committee plans a hearing on the Copyright Office’s (CO) functions and resources Feb. 26 at 1:30 p.m. in 2138 Rayburn, a committee news release said Thursday. Witnesses weren’t listed. The CO also released a study Thursday on…
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its modernization challenges. The 87-page study was first undertaken in November 2011. Four areas were found to have “great need of improvement,” including “user experience” and “access to and the usability of copyright records,” it said. “Poor performance of outdated IT architecture and infrastructure” and “inefficiencies with current copyright data” are the other primary challenges. “The Office should have a new and dedicated enterprise copyright system, which might be perceived as ‘eCO 2.0,’" it said. That means a “large-scale application package that includes the capabilities for registration, recordation, public information and records, accounting and processing, and acquisition,” the study said. “While the result would be an over-arching enterprise system, each copyright function must have its own dedicated development cycle to include analysis, requirements, design, build, testing/pilot, deployment and maintenance phases,” it said. “These goals would need to be reconciled with the existing systems and future plans of the Library of Congress.”