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Note: The deadlines for reply comments have been extended to May 12, 2009, at 5:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

On March 26, 2009, the United States Copyright Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office published in the Federal Register a Notice of Inquiry on the topic of facilitating access to copyrighted works for “blind or other persons with disabilities” in connection with a forthcoming meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Pursuant to the Notice of Inquiry, the Copyright Office and USPTO are accepting reply comments on this topic. (Initial comments were due on April 28, 2009.)

Interested parties are encouraged to submit reply comments electronically using the form below. Reply comments are due by 5:00 pm on Tuesday May 12, 2009. All reply comments submitted electronically must be submitted as an attachment, and must be in a single file in either Adobe Portable Document File (PDF) format that contains searchable, accessible text (not an image); Microsoft Word; WordPerfect; Rich Text Format (RTF); or ASCII text file format. The maximum file size is 6 megabytes (MB). The attached reply comment must include the name of the commenter. Commenters should use the browse button on the form below to attach the comment file to the form and then to submit the completed form to the Copyright Office.

The Copyright Office and the USPTO intend to post all comments and reply comments from this proceeding on the Copyright Office website. For reply comments submitted electronically, the name and organization of the commenter from the reply comment form will be posted together with the entire attached reply comment document. Other information from the reply comment form will not be posted, but note that if the same information is included in the attached document it will be available on the Copyright Office website as part of the attachment.

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