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Internet Task Force Examines Copyright In the Digital Age

By Robert W. Clarida and Robert J. Bernstein
February 29, 2016

On Jan. 28, the Commerce Department issued a much-anticipated policy statement entitled “White Paper on Remixes, First Sale and Statutory Damages: Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy.” The 100-page white paper, from the department's Internet Policy Task Force is the culmination of a process that began with a preliminary “green paper” in 2013, and proceeded through written comments and a nationwide series of public roundtables in 2014 to gather input from stakeholders in the field, such as the recording and film industries, librarians, user groups and the technology sector. This article briefly describes the white paper's scope and recommendations, with a focus on the issue of statutory damages, as to which the white paper proposes several amendments to the current Copyright Act.

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