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 The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America

United States Copyright Office •

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

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.