Maria Pallante Named Head Of US Copyright Office01/06/2011 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a CommentShare this Story:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Much of our best content is available only to IP Watch subscribers. We are a non-profit independent news service, and subscribing to our service helps support our goals of bringing more transparency to global IP and innovation policies. To access all of our content, please subscribe now.A lawyer with experience representing copyright holders such as authors and museums today was named the top copyright official in the United States government.Maria Pallante was named the US Register of Copyrights, making her head of the Copyright Office, which is housed in the Library of Congress (and has been part of it since 1870), separate from the US Patent and Trademark Office. Pallante has been acting in the role since the December retirement of Marybeth Peters, and has been at the office since 2008.The Copyright Office press release and bio is here.A range of stakeholders representing rights holders and the public interest issued statements in support of the appointment.Share this Story:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)RelatedWilliam New may be reached at wnew@ip-watch.ch."Maria Pallante Named Head Of US Copyright Office" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
