2016-20495: Copyright Office Technical Amendments
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The U.S. Copyright Office is proposing to amend its regulations governing registration, recordation, licensing, and other services that the Office provides. The amendments will improve the quality of the Office's regulations by updating cross-references to the Copyright Act and the Office's regulations, replacing outdated terminology, reflecting structural changes to the Office and its senior management, eliminating expired or obsolete provisions, and correcting nonsubstantive errors. While these amendments are intended to be technical in nature, out of an abundance of caution, the Office is publishing the proposed regulations for public comment.
The agency’s own summary, as published.
What this changes
Amends 16 parts of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.
- 37 CFR 201 General Provisions
- 37 CFR 202 Preregistration and Registration of Claims to Copyright
- 37 CFR 203 Freedom of Information Act: Policies and Procedures
- 37 CFR 204 Privacy Act: Policies and Procedures
- 37 CFR 205 Legal Processes
- 37 CFR 210 Compulsory License for Making and Distributing Physical and Digital Phonorecords of Nondramatic Musical Works
- 37 CFR 211 Mask Work Protection
- 37 CFR 212 Protection of Vessel Designs
- 37 CFR 253
- 37 CFR 255
- 37 CFR 258
- 37 CFR 260
- 37 CFR 261
- 37 CFR 262
- 37 CFR 263
- 37 CFR 270
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