PicScout Chosen to Testify before the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property at a Hearing on Orphan Works Legislation
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Digital content monitoring leader PicScout were until recently, as a witness before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property on how to the company’s image, the software can be used to establish origin of files protected by copyright which exist without free. After the demonstration, the content of the clearance system in December to the US Copyright Office, PicScout was the only technology company asked to come back and talk more about his solution to the problem at the hearing , improving the possibility that the software can be selected PicScout, for use by the U.S. government. PicScout Marketing and Sales Director, Maya Gura, told the subcommittee on the courts, as the business content of the clearance system, users can identify the copyright holders of the so-called “orphan Works “- protected files, whose owners are apparently unable to locate or identify. During the year 2005, the US Copyright Office began to study issues related to the Orphan Works. Questions were raised by the various parties, that insecurity in the possession of copyright, they can both creators and users of these files in the new art work done by them or available to the public . “I think PicScout’s testimony before the subcommittee is interesting and instructive. I believe that the technology can be part of the solution, when determining the original owner and creator of” Orphan Works “, said the President of the Subcommittee, Howard L. Berman. “The US Copyright Office is very impressed by the image, recognition and monitoring of PicScout functions,” said Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, US Copyright Office. “In addition, we are impressed by his conduct in the Massif development of new business models for copyright owners and new research tools for users of copyright.” “We recognize that the problem of orphans Works copyright in the town and is delighted to be part of the solution available to users in good faith,” Gura said. “I am proud that PicScout was selected for many other technology companies, but even more, I am proud to support and promote artists for the creation of great art.” Other speakers were Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, US Copyright Office, Robert Allan Adler, Vice President of Legal and Government Affairs, Association of American Publishers, P. Corinne Kevorkian, President and CEO, Schumacher, Karen C. Coe, Associate Legal Counsel, US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Victor S. Perlman, General Counsel and Managing Director, American Society of Media Photographers. A record of the proceedings is available on www.copyrightoffice.gov. About PicScout PicScout (www.picscout.com) is a leading provider of technology services for the digital content industry. For years, the flagship of the company Image Tracker ™ has been industry standards to help owners visual assets, to control and monitor the distribution of its own images in all media. Thanks to its platform PicApp (www.picapp.com), PicScout enables publishers online, quickly and easily images creative and editorial blogs and Web sites. PicScout headquartered in San Francisco. The company has a development and operation of the Centre in the heart Elia, Israel. |