For decades, the Copyright Office has been a small and sleepy office within the Library of Congress.
Each year, the agency’s 450 employees register roughly half a million copyrights, the ownership rights for creative works, based on a two-centuries-old law.
Thousands of artists, musicians and tech executives have written to the agency, and hundreds have asked to speak at listening sessions hosted by the office.
The attention stems from a first-of-its-kind review of copyright law that the Copyright Office is conducting in the age of artificial intelligence.
The agency plans to put out three reports this year revealing its position on copyright law in relation to A.I.
Persons:
Shira Perlmutter
Organizations:
of Congress, Microsoft, Google, Copyright