Katharine Trendacosta, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); Tell the Senate Not to Put the Register of Copyrights in the Hands of the President
"Update 12/03/2018: The December 4 hearing has been postponed, but it could be rescheduled. Keep telling the Senate to vote "no."
With just a week left for this Congress, one of the weirdest bad
copyright bills is back on the calendar. The “Register of Copyrights
Selection and Accountability Act” would make the Register of Copyrights a
presidential appointee, politicizing a role that should not be made a
presidential pawn.
On Tuesday, December 4, the Senate Committee on Rules and
Administration is scheduled to vote on S. 1010, the Senate version of
the “Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act” already passed by the House of Representatives
as H.R. 1695. If it passes out of the committee, the whole Senate will
be able to vote on it with only days left in the 2018 session."
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