17 U.S.C. § 705 — Copyright Office records: Preparation, maintenance, public inspection, and searching
submitted 50 years ago by Pub. L. 94-553 to r/title-17-COPYRIGHTS · 108 words · no verdicts yet
This section sets rules about Copyright Office records, Preparation, maintenance, public inspection, and searching. It also provides the conditions, exceptions, procedures, or penalties stated in the section.
(a) The Register of Copyrights must ensure that records of deposits, registrations, recordations, and other actions taken under this title are maintained, and that indexes of such records are prepared. (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, must be open to public inspection. (c) Upon request and payment of the fee specified by section 708, the Copyright Office must make a search of its public records, indexes, and deposits, and must furnish a report of the information they disclose about any particular deposits, registrations, or recorded documents.
The Register of Copyrights shall ensure that records of deposits, registrations, recordations, and other actions taken under this title are maintained, and that indexes of such records are prepared.
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.
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.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 94–553, title I, § 101, Oct. 19, 1976, 90 Stat. 2592; Pub. L. 106–379, § 3(a)(2), Oct. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 1445.)
- 1976Enacted · Pub. L. 94-553 · 90 Stat. 2592
- 2000Amended · Pub. L. 106-379 · 114 Stat. 1445
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 94-553 on 1976-10-19.
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