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tured in the United States during the 5-year ad interim term, and by making another registration for that edition.

As explained in chapter 7 of this Supplementary Report, the manufacturing requirements provided in the revised statute would not represent a condition of copyright protection, and all ad interim time-limits and procedural requirements have been dropped from the bill. Accordingly, "[i]n the case of any work in which ad interim copyright is subsisting or is capable of being secured on December 31, 1966, ***" SEC. 7 provides that "copyright protection is hereby extended to endure for the term or terms" provided by section 304 of the revised statute. Thus, where a work is already covered by an ad interim copyright or where, having been published abroad during the 6 months before the date the new statute comes into effect, it is eligible for ad interim registration on that date, it would automatically be governed by the duration provisions of section 304 without the need to observe any special time limits or registration procedures.

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H. NOTICE IN COPIES OF PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORKS |

As explained in chapter 5 of this Supplementary Report, the provisions in the revised statute regarding the copyright notice differ in some respects from those in the present statute, The first sentence of SEC. 8 states the general rule that the notice provisions of the revised statute "apply to all copies or phonorecords publicly distributed on or after January 1, 1967."

In the case of a work first published before the effective date of the revision, however, the copies will necessarily have borne the notice called for by the present statute. In that situation the continued use of a notice that is now acceptable under the existing law should be permitted on the copies of the work publicly distributed after the revised statute comes into effect. The second sentence of SEC. 8, therefore, provides that "in the case of a work published before Jaunary 1, 1967, compliance with the notice provisions of title 17 either as it existed on December 31, 1966, or as amended by this act, is adequate with respect to copies publicly distributed after December 31, 1966."

I. OTHER TRANSITIONAL AND SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIÓNS

The remaining four "transitional and supplementary provisions," which are contained in SECS. 9 through 12 of the bill, do not appear to require extended comment. SEC. 9 is intended to make clear that registration and recordation on the basis of materials received in the Copyright Office before the effective date of the new law are to be

made under the present law, even though the process is not completed until later. SEC. 10 deals with the case where the Register of Copyrights makes a demand, either before or after the effective date of the revision, for the deposit of copies of a work published before that date; it provides that the demand, and the effect of noncompliance with it, will be governed by the present statute, but that any deposit, application and fee received after December 31, 1966, in response to the demand are to be filed in accordance with the revised statute. SEC. 11 makes clear that a cause of action existing when the revision becomes effective is to be governed by the law under which it arose, and SEC. 12 is the familiar constitutional clause commonly used in statutes.

Additional "transitional and supplementary" provisions will be needed to amend other Federal statutes which refer to particular sections of the existing copyright statute by number. Examples are section 543 (a) (4) of title 26 of the United States Code (the Internal Revenue Code), dealing with copyright royalties in the context of personal holding company income, and section 1498 of title 28 of the Code, dealing with the liability of the Government under the damage provisions of the present law.

APPENDIXES

APPENDIX A

LIST OF HOUSE COMMITTEE PRINTS

The following prints on the general revision of the U.S. copyright law are issued by the House Committee on the Judiciary under the series title, "Copyright Law Revision":

PART

1. Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law (July 1961).

2. Discussion and Comments on Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law (February 1963).

3. Preliminary Draft for Revised U.S. Copyright Law and Discussions and Comments on the Draft (September 1964).

4. Further Discussions and Comments on Preliminary Draft for Revised U.S. Copyright Law (December 1964).

5. 1964 Revision Bill With Discussions and Comments (in preparation).

6. Supplementary Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law: 1965 Revision Bill (May 1965).

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