Submissions to Public Agencies/2011

This is a page that catalogs submissions by Creative Commons to requests for information or comments, and other input to government and public sector bodies.

World Intellectual Property Organization

Enabling Creativity in the Digital Environment: Copyright Documentation and Infrastructure, 13 October 2011

• Meeting agenda
• CC Presentation by Mr. Andres Guadamuz

Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP)

• Agenda (CDIP/8, November 14 -18, 2011)
• CC Intervention at CDIP/8 by Mr. Andres Guadamuz
• CC statement on the public domain read by Mr. Andres Guadamuz in discussion of Mrs. Séverine Dusollier's study Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain

Europe

European Commission, Research and Innovation Consultation on scientific information in the digital age

• Consultation information
• Response from CC

United Kingdom

Cabinet Office Public Consultation: Making Open Data Real

• Consultation information
• Response from CC
• Government summary of responses

United States Executive Branch

U.S. Department of Education Request for Information: Assessment Technology Standards

• Federal Register RFI
• Response from CC

United States Congress

• Letter to Lamar Smith and John Conyers opposing SOPA and PIPA
• Letter to House and Senate subcommittee leaders in opposition to Sec. 124 language in House Labor, Health and Human Service, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee's draft 2012 budget

United States Judiciary

Golan v. Holder

• Decision
• Amicus brief from CC

Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of an act restoring copyright status to foreign works previously in the public domain against Plaintiff’s claim that the First Amendment and the “limited time” language in the Copyright Clause prohibited this.