In the meantime, the copyright office is in the strange position to continue as if it didn't miss his head. Immediately after the discharge of Perlmutter, the Copyright Office paused the issue of registration certificates “from an abundance of caution,” said USCO spokesperson Lisa Berardi Marflak, who says that the break influenced around 20,000 registrations. It resumed activities on 29 May, but now sends registration certificates with an empty place where the Perlmutter signature would usually be.
This unusual change has led to discussion among copyright experts about whether the registrations are now more vulnerable to legal challenges. The Copyright Office claims that they are valid: “There is no requirement that the signature of the register must appear on registration certificates,” says Berardi Marflak.
In a motion that is related to Perlmutter's court case, she claims that sending the registrations without a signature opens them for 'challenges in court cases', something outside copyright experts have also pointed out. “It is true that the law does not explicitly require a signature,” says IP lawyer Rachael Dickson. “However, the law really states that it is copyright register that determines whether the material submitted for the application is protected copyright.”
Without someone acting as a register, Dickson thinks it would be reasonable to claim that the legal requirements are not met. “If you completely get them out of the comparison, you have a very big problem,” she says. “Processes that try to challenge the validity of a copyright registration will jump on this.”
The lawyers of Perlmutter have argued that leaving the copyright office without an active boss will cause dysfunction outside the problem of the registration certificate, since the Register performs various tasks, of advising the congress on copyrights to give organizations such as the mechanical license collective, the non -profit and destroying of the management of the Signion of the Management of the Signion of the Management and Derableing of Downloading in Developing and Derableing in Deroming and DeremaDing in Deroming and Deroming Dancing Infities and Deroming Dancing Infities and DeremaDtie Dancing Infities and Deroming Dancing and Deroming Dancing and Deroming Dancing and Deroming Dancing and Deroming Dancing and Deroming Dancing Infities and Deremade. States. Since the certification of the MLC has risen at the moment, Perlmutter would usually move forward to reconcertifying the organization; As its lawsuit notes, the recertification process is not currently progressing.
