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CO Updates Online DMCA Agent Designation System

The Copyright Office released an updated version Wednesday of its online system for designating and searching for agents to receive copyright infringement claim notifications under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The CO finished developing the system last year and officially…

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deployed it in December. Online service providers that previously had designated agents with the CO will have until the end of this year to submit a new designation electronically via the online system (see 1610310050). The new version updates the user account registration process to “make it simpler and easier to complete,” said a news release. The office published in Wednesday's Federal Register a technical change to the rules governing the system to reflect the update.