The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America
United States Copyright Office • 101 Independence Avenue SE • Washington, DC 20559-6000
The Honorable Thom Tillis
Ranking Member
Subcommittee on Intellectual Property
United States Senate
113 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20510
The Honorable Patrick Leahy
Chair
Subcommittee on Intellectual Property
United States Senate
437 Russell Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20510
The Honorable John Cornyn
Subcommittee on Intellectual Property
United States Senate
517 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
The Honorable Mazie K. Hirono
Subcommittee on Intellectual Property
United States Senate
109 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
The Honorable Amy Klobuchar
Chair
Subcommittee on Competition Policy,
Antitrust, and Consumer Rights
United States Senate
425 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
The Honorable Christopher A. Coons
Subcommittee on Intellectual Property
United States Senate
218 Russell Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
June 30, 2022
Dear Senators Leahy, Tillis, Hirono, Cornyn, Klobuchar, and Coons:
On behalf of the United States Copyright Office, I am pleased to deliver a copy of a report entitled Copyright Protections for Publishers, which is available to the public on the Office's website.
Following a series of hearings on reforms to digital copyright law, you requested that the Copyright Office undertake a study to assess the viability of establishing "ancillary copyright" protections for press publishers, similar to protections now being implemented in Europe, that would require online news aggregators to pay publishers for excerpts of content they provide for others to view.
