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15 U.S.C. § 290e — United States copyright and renewal rights

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15 U.S.C. § 290e — United States copyright and renewal rights

**(a)** Notwithstanding the limitations under [section 105 of title 17](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title17-section105&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary may secure copyright and renewal thereof on behalf of the United States as author or proprietor in all or any part of any standard reference data which he prepares or makes available under this chapter, and may authorize the reproduction and publication thereof by others. **(b)** The publication or republication by the Government under this chapter, either separately or in a public document, of any material in which copyright is subsisting shall not be taken to cause any abridgment or annulment of the copyright or to authorize any use or appropriation of such material without the consent of the copyright proprietor.

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17 U.S.C. § 105 — Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works

**(a) In General.—** Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise. **(b) Copyright Protection of Certain Works.—** Subject to subsection (c), the covered author of a covered work owns the copyright to that covered work. **(c) Use by Federal Government.—** (1) **Secretary of defense authority.—** — With respect to a covered author who produces a covered work in the course of employment at a covered institution described in subparagraphs (A) through (L) of subsection (d)(2) and subparagraph (M) of such subsection when the Coast Guard is operating as a service in the Navy, the Secretary of Defense may direct the covered author to provide the Federal Government with an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, nonexclusive license to reproduce, distribute, perform, or display such covered work for purposes of the United States Government. (2) **Secretary of the department in which the coast guard is operating when it is not operating as a service in the navy authority.—** — With respect to a covered author who produces a covered work in the course of employment at the covered institution described in subsection (d)(2)(M), the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating when it is not operating as a service in the Navy may direct the covered author to provide the Federal Government with an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, nonexclusive license to reproduce, distribute, perform, or display such covered work for purposes of the United States Government. (3) **Director of national intelligence authority.—** — With respect to a covered author who produces a

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17 U.S.C. § 101 — Definitions

Except as otherwise provided in this title, as used in this title, the following terms and their variant forms mean the following:

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15 U.S.C. § 290e — United States copyright and renewal

Page 707 TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE § 294 classified generally to chapter 7 (§ 271 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. § 290e. United States copyright and renewal rights (a) Notwithstanding the limitations under sec- tion 105 of title 17, the Secretary may secure copyright and renewal thereof on behalf of the United States as author or proprietor in all or any part of any standard reference data which he prepares or makes available under this chap- ter, and may authorize the reproduction and publication thereof by others. (b) The publication or republication by the Government under this chapter, either sepa- rately or in a public document, of any material in which copyright is subsisting shall not be taken to cause any abridgment or annulment of the copyright or to authorize any use or appro- priation of such material without the consent of the copyright proprietor. (Pub. L. 90–396, § 6, July 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 340; Pub. L. 94–553, § 105(f), Oct. 19, 1976, 90 Stat. 2599; Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title III, § 13211(b), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1910.) Editorial Notes AMENDMENTS 2002—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–273, § 13211(b)(2), sub- stituted ‘‘Notwithstanding the limitations under sec- tion 105 of title 17,’’ for ‘‘Notwithstanding the limita- tions contained in section 105 of title 17,’’. Pub. L. 107–273, § 13211(b)(1), made technical amend- ment to directory language of Pub. L. 94–553. See 1976 Amendment note below. 1976—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94–553, as amended by Pub. L. 107–273, § 13211(b)(1), substituted ‘‘section 105 of title 17’’ for ‘‘section 8 of title 17’’. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1976 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 94–553 effective Jan. 1, 1978, se

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