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[CITE: 15USC290e]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
               CHAPTER 7A--STANDARD REFERENCE DATA PROGRAM
 
Sec. 290e. United States copyright and renewal rights

    (a) Notwithstanding the limitations contained in section 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 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.

(Pub. L. 90-396, Sec. 6, July 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 340; Pub. L. 94-553, 
Sec. 105(f), Oct. 19, 1976, 90 Stat. 2599.)


                               Amendments

    1976--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94-553 substituted ``section 105 of title 
17'' for ``section 8 of title 17''.


                    Effective Date of 1976 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 94-553 effective Jan. 1, 1978, see section 102 
of Pub. L. 94-553, set out as an Effective Date note preceding section 
101 of Title 17, Copyrights.
