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(b) The Register of Copyrights shall adopt a seal to be used on and after January 1, 1967 to authenticate all certified documents issued by the Copyright Office.

(c) The Register of Copyrights shall make an annual report to the Librarian of Congress of the work and accomplishments of the Copyright Office during the previous fiscal year. The annual report of the Register of Copyrights shall be published separately and as a part of the annual report of the Librarian of Congress.

§ 702. Copyright Office regulations

The Register of Copyrights is authorized to establish regulations not inconsistent with law for the administration of the functions and duties made his responsibility under this title. All regulations established by the Register under this title are subject to the approval of the Librarian of Congress.

8703. Effective date of actions in Copyright Office

In any case in which time limits are prescribed under this title for the performance of an action in the Copyright Office, and in which the last day of the prescribed period falls on a Saturday, Sunday, holiday or other non-business day within the District of Columbia or the Federal Government, the action may be taken on the next succeeding business day, and is effective as of the date when the period expired. § 704. Retention and disposition of articles deposited in Copyright Office

(a) Upon their deposit in the Copyright Office under sections 406 and 407, all copies, phonorecords, and identifying material, including those deposited in connection with claims that have been refused registration, are the property of the United States Government.

(b) In the case of published works, all copies, phonorecords, and identifying material deposited are available to the Library of Congress for its collections, or for exchange or transfer to any other library. In the case of unpublished works, the Library is entitled to select any deposits for its collections.

(c) Deposits not selected by the Library under subsection (b), or identifying portions or reproductions of them, shall be retained under the control of the Copyright Office, including retention in Government storage facilities, for the longest period considered practicable and de87 sirable by the Register of Copyrights and the Librarian of Congress. 38 After that period it is within the joint discretion of the Register and

the Librarian to order their destruction or other disposition; but, in

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wise disposed of during its term of copyright without specific notice to the copyright owner of record at his last address given in the public records of the Copyright Office, permitting him to claim and remove it.

(d) The depositor of copies, phonorecords, or identifying material under section 407, or the copyright owner of record, may request retention, under the control of the Copyright Office, of one or more of such articles for the full term of copyright in the work. The Register of Copyrights shall prescribe, by regulation, the conditions under which such requests are to be made and granted, and shall fix the fee to be charged under section 708 (11) if the request is granted.

§ 705. Copyright Office records: Preparation, maintenance, public inspection, and searching

(a) The Register of Copyrights shall provide and keep in the Copyright Office records of all deposits, registrations, recordations, and other actions taken under this title, and shall prepare indexes of all such records.

(b) Such records and indexes, as well as the articles deposited in connection with completed copyright registrations and retained under the control of the Copyright Office, shall be open to public inspection.

(c) Upon request and payment of the fee specified by section 708, the Copyright Office shall make a search of its public records, indexes, and deposits, and shall furnish a report of the information they disclose with respect to any particular deposits, registrations, or recorded documents.

§ 706. Copies of Copyright Office records

(a) Copies may be made of any public records or indexes of the Copyright Office; additional certificates of copyright registration and copies of any public records or indexes may be furnished upon request and payment of the fees specified by section 708.

(b) Copies or reproductions of deposited articles retained under the control of the Copyright Office shall be authorized or furnished only under the conditions specified by the Copyright Office regula34 tions.

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§ 707. Copyright Office forms and publications

(a) CATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES.-The Register of Copyrights shall compile and publish at periodic intervals catalogs of all copyright registrations. These catalogs shall be divided into parts in accordance with the various classes of works, and the Register has discretion to determine, on the basis of practicability and usefulness, the form and frequency of publication of each particular part.

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1 (b) OTHER PUBLICATIONS.-The Register shall furnish, free of 2 charge upon request, application forms for copyright registration and 3 general informational material in connection with the functions of the 4 Copyright Office. He also has authority to publish compilations of 5 information, bibliographies, and other material he considers to be of value to the public.

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(c) DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLICATIONS.-All publications of the Copy8_right Office shall be furnished to depository libraries as specified under 9 the Depository Library Act of 1962 (76 Stat. 353, 44 U.S.C. 82), and, 10 aside from those furnished free of charge, shall be offered for sale to the public at prices based on the cost of reproduction and distribution.

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§708. Copyright Office fees

(a) The following fees shall be paid to the Register of Copyrights: (1) for the registration of a copyright claim or a supplementary registration under section 407, including the issuance of a certificate of registration, $6;

(2) for the registration of a claim to renewal of a subsisting copyright in its first term under section 304 (a), including the issuance of a certificate of registration, $4;

(3) for the issuance of a receipt for a deposit under section

406, $2;

(4) for the recordation, as provided by section 205, of a transfer of copyright ownership or other document of six pages or less, covering no more than one title, $5; for each page over six and for each title over one, 50 cents additional;

(5) for the filing, under section 113(b), of a notice of intention to make phonorecords, $3;

(6) for the recordation, under section 302 (d), of a statement relating to the death of an author, $5;

(7) for the issuance, under section 601, of an import statement, $3;

(8) for the issuance under section 706, of an additional certificate of registration, $2;

(9) for the issuance of any other certification, $3; the Register of Copyrights has discretion, on the basis of their cost, to fix the fees for preparing copies of Copyright Office records, whether they are to be certified or not;

(10) for the making and reporting of a search as provided by section 705, and for any related services, $5 for each hour or fraction of an hour consumed;

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(11) for any other special services requiring a substantial amount of time or expense, such fees as the Register of Copyrights may fix on the basis of the cost of providing the service. (b) The fees prescribed by or under this section are applicable to the United States Government and any of its agencies, employees, or officers, but the Register of Copyrights has discretion to waive the requirement of this subsection in occasional or isolated cases involving relatively small amounts.

TRANSITIONAL AND SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS

SEC. 2. This act becomes effective on January 1, 1967, except as otherwise provided by section 304 (b) of title 17 as amended by this act.

SEC. 3. This act does not provide copyright protection for any work that goes into the public domain before January 1, 1967. The exclusive rights, as provided by section 106 (a) of title 17 as amended 16 by this act, to reproduce a work in phonorecords and to distribute phonorecords of the work, do not extend to any nondramatic musical work copyrighted before July 1, 1909.

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SEC. 4. All proclamations issued by the President under sections 1(e) or 9(b) of title 17 as it existed on December 31, 1966 or under 21 previous copyright statutes of the United States shall continue in force until terminated, suspended, or revised by the President. SEC. 5. The last sentence of section 52 of the Printing Act, ap24 proved January 12, 1895 (28 Stat. 608; 44 U.S.C. 58) is hereby repealed.

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SEC. 6. In any case where, before January 1, 1967, a person has 27 lawfully made parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically a copyrighted work under the compulsory license provisions of 29 section 1(e) of title 17 as it existed on December 31, 1966, he may continue to make and distribute such parts embodying the same mechan31 ical reproduction without obtaining a new compulsory license under 32 the terms of section 113 of title 17 as amended by this act. However, such parts made after January 1, 1967 constitute phonorecords and are otherwise subject to the provisions of said section 113.

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SEC. 7. In the case of any work in which an ad interim copyright is subsisting or is capable of being secured on December 31, 1966, under section 22 of title 17 as it existed on that date, copyright pro38 tection is hereby extended to endure for the term or terms provided by section 304 of title 17 as amended by this act.

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SEC. 8. The notice provisions of sections 401 and 402 of title 17 as amended by this act apply to all copies or phonorecords publicly dis

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SEC. 9. The registration of claims to copyright for which the required deposit, application, and fee were received in the Copyright Office before January 1, 1967, and the recordation of assignments of copyright or other instruments received in the Copyright Office before January 1, 1967, shall be made in accordance with title 17 as it existed on December 31, 1966.

SEC. 10. The demand and penalty provisions of section 14 of title 17 as it existed on December 31, 1966, apply to any work in which copyright has been secured by publication with notice of copyright on or before that date, but any deposit and registration made after that date in response to a demand under that section shall be made in accordance with the provisions of title 17 as amended by this act.

SEC. 11. All causes of action that arose under title 17 before January 1, 1967, shall be governed by title 17 as it existed when the cause of action arose.

SEC. 12. If any provision of title 17, as amended by this act, is declared unconstitutional, the validity of the remainder of the title is not affected.