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Section 701 - The Copyright Office: General responsibilities and organization, 17 U.S.C. § 701 | Casetext Search + Citator
Section 701 - The Copyright Office: General responsibilities and organization
(f) The Register of Copyrights shall be compensated at the greater of the rate of pay in effect for level III of the Executive Schedule under section 5314 of title 5 or the maximum annual rate of basic pay payable under section 5376 of such title for positions at agencies with a performance appraisal system certified under section 5307(d) of such title. The Librarian of Congress shall establish not more than four positions for Associate Registers of Copyrights, in accordance with the recommendations of the Register of Copyrights. The Librarian shall make appointments to such positions after consultation with the Register of Copyrights. The rate of basic pay for each Associate Register of Copyrights shall be fixed in accordance with section 5376 of title 5.
Pub. L. 94-553, title I, §101, Oct. 19, 1976, 90 Stat. 2591; Pub. L. 101-319, §2(b), July 3, 1990, 104 Stat. 290; Pub. L. 105-304, title IV, §401(a)(2), (b), Oct. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 2887; Pub. L. 116-94, div. P, title XIV, §1404(a)(3), (b) (2), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 3208.
REFERENCES IN TEXTThe Administrative Procedure Act of June 11, 1946, referred to in subsec. (e), was repealed and the provisions thereof were reenacted as subchapter II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 278.
AMENDMENTS2019-Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 116-94 substituted "The Register of Copyrights shall be compensated at the greater of the rate of pay in effect for level III of the Executive Schedule under section 5314 of title 5 or the maximum annual rate of basic pay payable under section 5376 of such title for positions at agencies with a performance appraisal system certified under section 5307(d) of such title." for "The Register of Copyrights shall be compensated at the rate of pay in effect for level III of the Executive Schedule under section 5314 of title 5." and "The rate of basic pay for each Associate Register of Copyrights shall be fixed in accordance with section 5376 of title 5." for "Each Associate Register of Copyrights shall be paid at a rate not to exceed the maximum annual rate of basic pay payable for GS-18 of the General Schedule under section 5332 of title 5."1998-Subsecs. (b) to (e). Pub. L. 105-304, §401(b)(1), added subsec. (b) and redesignated former subsecs. (b) to (d) as (c) to (e), respectively. Former subsec. (e) redesignated (f).Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 105-304 redesignated subsec. (e) as (f) and substituted "III" for "IV" and "5314" for "5315" in first sentence.1990-Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 101-319 added subsec. (e).
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1990 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 101-319, §5, July 3, 1990, 104 Stat. 291, provided that:"(a) EFFECTIVE DATE.-The amendments made by this Act [amending this section and section 802 of this title and sections 5315 and 5316 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 101 of this title] shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act [July 3, 1990]."(b) BUDGET ACT.-Any new spending authority (within the meaning of section 401 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 [ 2 U.S.C. 651 ]) which is provided under this Act shall be effective for any fiscal year only to the extent or in such amounts as are provided in appropriations Acts."
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON NEW TECHNOLOGICAL USES OF COPYRIGHTED WORKSPub. L. 93-573, title II, §§201-208, Dec. 31, 1974, 88 Stat. 1873-1875, as amended by Pub. L. 94-314, June 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 692; Pub. L. 95-146, Oct. 28, 1977, 91 Stat. 1226, created in the Library of Congress a National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works to study and compile data on (1) the reproduction and use of copyrighted works of authorship (A) in conjunction with automatic systems capable of storing, processing, retrieving, and transferring information, and (B) by various forms of machine reproduction, not including reproduction by or at the request of instructors for use in face-to-face teaching activities, and (2) the creation of new works by the application or intervention of such automatic systems or machine reproduction, required the Commission to submit a final report to the President and Congress on or before July 31, 1978, and provided that the Commission terminated the sixtieth day after submitting the final report.
Section 702 - Copyright Office regulations