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Cite as:  565 U. S. ____ (2012) 

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Opinion of the Court 
Appendix to opinion of the Court 

APPENDIX
 

Title 17 U. S. C. §104A provides:
“(a) AUTOMATIC PROTECTION AND TERM.— 
  “(1) TERM.— 

“(A)  Copyright  subsists,  in  accordance  with  this  sec-
tion,  in  restored  works,  and  vests  automatically  on  the
date of restoration. 

“(B)  Any  work  in  which  copyright  is  restored  under
this section shall subsist for the remainder of the term of 
copyright that the work would have otherwise been grant-
ed  in  the  United  States  if  the  work  never  entered  the 
public domain in the United States. 
  “(2) EXCEPTION.—Any  work in which the copyright was
ever  owned  or  administered  by  the  Alien  Property  Custo-
dian and in which the restored copyright would be owned 
by  a  government  or  instrumentality  thereof,  is  not  a  re-
stored work. 
“(b)  OWNERSHIP  OF  RESTORED  COPYRIGHT.—A  restored 
work  vests  initially  in  the  author  or  initial  rightholder  of 
the work as determined by the law of the source country of 
the work. 
“(c)  FILING  OF  NOTICE  OF  INTENT  TO  ENFORCE  RESTORED 
COPYRIGHT  AGAINST  RELIANCE  PARTIES.—On  or  after  the 
date of restoration, any person who owns a copyright in a 
restored  work  or  an  exclusive  right  therein  may  file  with 
the  Copyright  Office  a  notice  of  intent  to  enforce  that
person’s  copyright  or  exclusive  right  or  may  serve  such  a
notice directly on a reliance party.  Acceptance of a notice
by  the  Copyright  Office  is  effective  as  to  any  reliance 
parties  but  shall  not  create  a  presumption  of  the  validity
of  any  of  the  facts  stated  therein.  Service  on  a  reliance 
party  is  effective  as  to  that  reliance  party  and  any  other 
reliance parties with actual knowledge of such service and
of the contents of that notice. 
“(d)  REMEDIES  FOR 
COPYRIGHTS.— 

INFRINGEMENT  OF  RESTORED