not limit or affect the copyright protection for a work that 
employs the infringed work.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions for chapter 5 of title 17, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new item: 
‘‘514. Limitation on remedies in cases involving orphan works’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply only to infringing uses that com-
mence on or after June 1, 2008. 
SEC. 203. REPORT TO CONGRESS ON AMENDMENTS. 
The Register of Copyrights shall, not later than De-
cember 12, 2014, report to the Committee on the Judici-
ary of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
on the Judiciary of the Senate on the implementation and 
effects of the amendments made by section 202, including 
any recommendations for legislative changes that the Reg-
ister considers appropriate. 
SEC. 204. INQUIRY ON REMEDIES FOR SMALL COPYRIGHT 
CLAIMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Register of Copyrights shall 
conduct an inquiry with respect to remedies for copyright 
infringement claims by an individual copyright owner or 
a related group of copyright owners seeking limited 
amounts of monetary relief, including consideration of al-
ternative means of resolving disputes currently heard in 
the United States district courts. The inquiry shall cover 
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infringement claims to which section 514 of title 17, 
United States Code (as added by section 202 of this Act), 
apply, and other infringement claims under title 17, 
United States Code. 
(b) PROCEDURES.—The Register of Copyrights shall 
publish notice of the inquiry under subsection (a), pro-
viding a period during which interested persons may sub-
mit comments on the inquiry, and an opportunity for in-
terested persons to participate in public roundtables on 
the inquiry. The Register shall hold the public roundtables 
at such times as the Register considers appropriate. 
(c) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Register of Copy-
rights shall, not later than 1 year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, prepare and submit to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a report 
on the inquiry conducted under this section, including 
such recommendations that the Register considers appro-
priate. 
TITLE III—COPYRIGHT 
PROTECTION RESOURCES 
SEC. 301. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Copyright Protection 
Resources Authorization Act of 2006’’. 
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SEC. 302. REGISTRATION IN CIVIL INFRINGEMENT AC-
TIONS. 
(a) LIMITATION TO CIVIL ACTIONS; PROTECTION OF 
COPYRIGHT CLAIM WITH PENDING APPLICATION; HARM-
LESS ERROR.—Section 411 of title 17, United States 
Code, is amended by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(b)(1) A certificate of registration satisfies the re-
quirements of this section and section 412, regardless of 
whether the certificate contains any inaccurate informa-
tion, unless— 
‘‘(A) the inaccurate information was included 
on the application for copyright registration with 
knowledge that it was inaccurate; and 
‘‘(B) the inaccurate information, if known, 
would have caused the Register of Copyrights to 
refuse registration. 
‘‘(2) In any case in which inaccurate information de-
scribed under paragraph (1) is alleged, the court shall re-
quest the Register of Copyrights to advise the court 
whether the inaccurate information, if known, would have 
caused the Register of Copyrights to refuse registra-
tion.’’;’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 412 of title 
17, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘411(b)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘411(c)’’. 
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SEC. 303. STATUTORY DAMAGES. 
Section 504(c)(1) of title 17, United States Code, is 
amended in the second sentence by inserting before the 
period ‘‘, except that the court in its discretion may deter-
mine that such parts are separate works if the court con-
cludes that they are distinct works having independent 
economic value’’. 
SEC. 304. IMPROVED INVESTIGATIVE AND FORENSIC RE-
SOURCES FOR ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS RE-
LATED 
TO 
INTELLECTUAL 
PROPERTY 
CRIMES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General, in con-
sultation with the Director of the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation, shall, with respect to crimes related to the 
theft of intellectual property— 
(1) create an operational unit of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation— 
(A) to work with the Computer Crime and 
Intellectual Property section of the Department 
of Justice on the investigation and coordination 
of intellectual property crimes that are complex, 
committed in more than one judicial district, or 
international; 
(B) that consists of at least 10 agents of 
the Bureau; and 
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