Nobody is responsible at the United States copyright office

A congress helper who is familiar with the situation told Wired that Blanche, Perkins and Nieves had not introduced themselves to work “because they don’t have a job to show”. The assistant continued: “As we have always supported, the president does not have the authority to appoint them. Robert Newlen has always been the librarian of the congress.”

If talks are happening, they remain out of the public. But Perlmutter openly has some members of the congress on its side. “The president does not have the authority to remove the copyright register. That power lies exclusively with the librarian of the congress. I am raised by the fact that the situation in the library and copyright office has stabilized following the unconstitutional attempt of the administration to take control for the executive branch.

In the meantime, the copyright office is in the strange position of trying to continue as if the head is not lacking. Immediately after the dismissal of Perlmutter, the copyright office paused the recording certificates “by abundance of caution”, according to the spokesperson for the Usco Lisa Berardi Marflak, which states that the break influenced about 20,000 recordings. He resumed his activities on May 29, but now he is sending registration certificates with an empty point in which Perlmutter’s signature would normally be.

This unusual change has Discussion push Among the copyright experts for themselves the recordings are now more vulnerable to legal challenges. The copyright office claims to be valid: “It is not necessary for the signature of the register to appear on the registration certificates,” says Berardi Marflak.

In a motion relating to the cause of Perlmutter, however, she supports That sending the recordings without signature opens them to the “challenges in the dispute”, also underlined something outside of copyright experts. “It is true that the law does not explicitly require a signature,” says the lawyer IP Rachael Dickson. “However, the law really explicitly states that it is the copyright register that determines if the material presented for the application is a topic protected by copyright.”

Without anyone who acts as a register, Dickson thinks that it would be reasonable to claim that the legal requirements are not met. “If you remove them completely from the equation, you have a really big problem,” he says. “The disputes who are trying to challenge the validity of a copyright recording will skip over this.”

Perlmtter’s lawyers have claimed that leaving the copyright office without an active garment will cause dysfunction beyond the problem of the registration certificate, since the register carries out a variety of tasks, from consultancy to congress on copyright to the United States’s reviving organizations in the United States. Since the MLC certification is at this moment, Perlmutter normally would go on with the organization of the organization; As his cause observes, at this moment, the recurrence process is not going on.

The MLC may not be influenced by the absence of Perlmutter as the complaint suggests. A source close to the MLC has declared to Wired that the organization must actually be recognized but that the law does not require the completion of the revolutionary process in a specific period of time, therefore it will be able to continue to operate as usual.