News Release: Copyright Issues Top Congressional Agenda for New ABA Task Force

The American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law announced today that it has established the Copyright Law Reform Task Force to make recommendations to Congress on upcoming copyright-related bills and proposals.

The new task force, chaired by June M. Besek, section council member and executive director of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School, will focus on proposals to change existing copyright laws and to create new domestic and international mechanisms to enhance compliance with copyright and other intellectual property law norms.

Following the model of the section’s Patent Law Reform Task Force established two years ago to respond to the ever-changing landscape in patent reform legislation, the Copyright Law Reform Task Force selected its members from the leadership of the section’s key copyright committees, copyright experts from academia and the section’s senior management.

The Copyright Law Task Force forms at a critical time in Congress. Both the House and the Senate Judiciary Committees are now addressing copyright matters after postponing consideration of those concerns to concentrate on patent law reform during the first 16 months of the 110th Congress.

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