Library of Congress Outage Affects Copyright Office
The Library of Congress data center that hosts some Copyright Office systems, including the online copyright registration system, remains offline after scheduled routine maintenance (see 1508270016">1508270016) over the weekend, a CO news release said Tuesday. The Library of Congress attempted…
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to reopen the data center Sunday, “but has been unable to restore access to Copyright Office systems,” the release said. CO staff is unable to access internal shared network resources, it said. “Until service is restored, you will be unable to use the eCO system to file a copyright registration, and Office staff may be unable to access Office records.” Copyright registration can still be filed using a paper registration form during the outage, the office said. “The Library of Congress informs us that it is working to resolve the problems as expeditiously as possible, but we do not have an estimated time for service resumption.”