PicScout Chosen to Testify before the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property at a Hearing on Orphan Works Legislation.Company Chosen To Present Testimony on How its Technology Could Be Used To Identify The Origin of 'Orphan Works' WASHINGTON -- Digital content monitoring industry leader PicScout was called to testify recently before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property to provide information on how the company's image recognition software can be used to identify the original owner of copyrighted files that exist without attribution at·tri·bu·tion n. 1. The act of attributing, especially the act of establishing a particular person as the creator of a work of art. 2. . Following demonstration of its Content Clearance System in December at the U.S. Copyright Office, PicScout was the only technology company asked to return and talk more about its solution for the problem at the hearing, raising the possibility that PicScout's software might be selected for use by the U.S. Government. PicScout Marketing and Sales Director, Maya Gura, explained before the Subcommittee on Courts how the company's Content Clearance System can help users to identify copyright owners of so-called "Orphan Works An orphan work is a copyrighted work where it is difficult or impossible to contact the copyright holder. To solve the problem of orphan works, some countries have considered a compulsory license scheme. " - copyrighted files whose owners are seemingly impossible to identify or locate. In 2005, the U.S. Copyright Office began to study issues related to Orphan Works. Concerns have been raised by various parties that the uncertainty surrounding ownership of copyrights might discourage both creators and users from incorporating these files in new artistic works, or from making them available to the public. "I find PicScout's testimony before the Subcommittee both interesting and enlightening en·light·en tr.v. en·light·ened, en·light·en·ing, en·light·ens 1. To give spiritual or intellectual insight to: . I believe technology can provide a critical part of the solution in identifying the owners and original creators of Orphan Works," said the Chairman of the Subcommittee, Howard L. Berman. "The US Copyright Office is very impressed by the image recognition and tracking capabilities of PicScout," said Marybeth Peters Marybeth Peters has served as the 11th United States Register of Copyrights since August 7, 1994. Peters has held the positions of Policy Planning Adviser to the Register, Acting General Counsel of the Copyright Office and as chief of both the Examining Division and the Information , Register of Copyrights, U.S. Copyright Office. "Moreover, we are impressed by their leadership in forging new business models for copyright owners and new search tools for copyright users." "We are well aware of the problem of Orphan Works in the copyright community and pleased to be a part of the solution available to the good-faith user," said Gura. "I am proud that PicScout was selected out of many other technology companies, but even more, I am proud to support the artists and encourage the great creation of art." Additional speakers included Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, U.S. Copyright Office, Allan Robert Adler Robert Adler (December 4 1913 - February 15 2007) was an Austrian-born American inventor who held numerous patents. Achievements Adler was born in Vienna, and earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Vienna in 1937. , Vice President of Legal and Government Affairs, Association of American Publishers (body, publication) Association of American Publishers - (AAP) A group engaged in standardisation efforts in document preparation. , Corinne P. Kevorkian, President and General Manager, Schumacher, Karen C. Coe, Associate Legal Counsel, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Victor S. Perlman, General Counsel and Managing Director, American Society of Media Photographers The American Society of Media Photographers, abbreviated ASMP, is a society of professional photographers, including many photojournalists but also experts in architectural, underwater, culinary and advertising photography and other specialties. . A record of the proceedings is available at www.copyrightoffice.gov. About PicScout PicScout (www.picscout.com) is the leading technology services provider to the digital content industry. For years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time company's flagship ImageTracker[TM] has been the industry standard application for helping visual assets owners control and monitor the distribution of their proprietary images across all media. Through its PicApp platform (www.picapp.com), PicScout allows online publishers to quickly and easily post creative and editorial images to blogs and web sites. PicScout headquarters are in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . The company has a development and operations center The facility or location on an installation, base, or facility used by the commander to command, control, and coordinate all crisis activities. See also base defense operations center; command center. in Herzelia, Israel. |
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