[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 125 (Monday, June 30, 2003)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 38630-38631]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-16484]


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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Copyright Office

37 CFR Part 202

[Docket No. RM 2003-2]


Architectural Works

AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

ACTION: Final rule; technical amendment.

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SUMMARY: This document makes non-substantive, technical amendments to 
Copyright Office regulations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 30, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kent Dunlap, Principal Legal Advisor 
or Sandra L. Jones, Writer-Editor, Copyright GC/I&R, PO Box 70400, 
Southwest Station, Washington, DC 20024. Telephone: (202) 707-8380. 
Telefax: (202) 707-8366.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Copyright Office has reviewed its 
regulations and makes technical amendments to 37 CFR part 202. In 1990, 
the Architectural Works Copyright Protection Act amended 17 U.S.C. 101 
to add the definition for ``architectural work.'' The Act also exempts 
from copyright registration architectural works embodied in unpublished 
plans or drawings created before December 1, 1990, if the works 
remained unconstructed on December 31, 2002. Regulations pertaining to 
registration of architectural works are found at 37 CFR 202.11, and 
paragraph (d) of that section covers works excluded from protection. 
The time for unpublished works created before December 1, 1990, to 
become constructed has now expired. The technical amendments are 
intended to reflect the exclusion and to clarify that the full title of 
the amending legislation is the Architectural Works Copyright 
Protection Act, title VII of the Judicial Improvements Act of 1990, 
Public Law 101-650, 104 Stat. 5089, 5133.

List of Subjects in 37 CFR Part 202

    Claims, Copyright.

Final Rule

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For the reasons set forth in the preamble, 37 CFR part 202 is amended 
as follows:

PART 202--REGISTRATION OF CLAIMS TO COPYRIGHT

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1. The authority citation for Part 202 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 17 U.S.C. 408, 702.

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2. Amend Sec.  202.11 by adding ``the Architectural Works Copyright

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Protection Act, title VII of'' after ``United States Code by'' and by 
revising paragraph (d)(3) to read as follows:.''


Sec.  202.11  Architectural works.

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    (d) * * *
    (3) Pre-December 1, 1990 building designs.
    (i) Published building designs. The designs of buildings where the 
plans or drawings of the building were published before December 1, 
1990, or the buildings were constructed or otherwise published before 
December 1, 1990.
    (ii) Unpublished building designs. The designs of buildings that 
were unconstructed and embodied in unpublished plans or drawings on 
December 1, 1990, and remained unconstructed on December 31, 2002.

    Dated: June 25, 2003.
Marilyn J. Kretsinger,
Associate General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 03-16484 Filed 6-27-03; 8:45 am]
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