[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 169 (Friday, September 1, 2023)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 60413-60417]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18664]


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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Copyright Office

37 CFR Part 202

[Docket No. 2023-3]


Access to Electronic Works

AGENCY: U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Copyright Office is issuing a notice of proposed 
rulemaking to update its regulation governing electronic deposits of 
published works submitted to the Office that have been selected for 
addition to the collections of the Library of Congress. The current 
regulation permits the Library to collect and provide limited on-site 
access to groups of newspapers electronically submitted for 
registration, as well as electronic serials and books submitted for 
mandatory deposit. The proposed rule expands the categories of 
electronic deposits covered by the regulation with the same limitations 
on access as are currently in place. The proposed changes are part of 
ongoing steps by the Library and the Office to encourage the submission 
of works in electronic form and reduce the need for copyright owners to 
deposit physical copies.

DATES: Written comments must be received by no later than 11:59 p.m. 
Eastern Time on October 2, 2023. Reply written comments must be 
received no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on October 16, 2023.

ADDRESSES: For reasons of government efficiency, the Copyright Office 
is using the regulations.gov system for the submission and posting of 
public comments in this proceeding. All comments are therefore to be 
submitted electronically through regulations.gov. Specific instructions 
for submitting comments are available on the Copyright Office website 
at https://www.copyright.gov/rulemaking/edeposit-access.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rhea Efthimiadis, Assistant to the 
General Counsel, by email at [email protected] or telephone at 202-
707-8350.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    The Copyright Act provides two sources of materials that can be 
selected by the Library of Congress for its collections. The first is 
the ``mandatory deposit'' requirement set forth in section 407 of title 
17. Under section 407, owners of copyright-protected works published in 
the United States must generally deposit two complete copies of the 
best edition of the work ``for the use or disposition of the Library of 
Congress.'' \1\ ``The `best edition' of a work'' is defined as ``the 
edition, published in the United States at any time before the date of 
deposit, that the Library of Congress determines to be most suitable 
for its purposes.'' \2\ The Office's regulations, including Sec.  
202.19 and Appendix B of part 202, set forth rules and criteria for the 
different types of works subject to mandatory deposit.
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    \1\ 17 U.S.C. 407, 407(b).
    \2\ Id. at 101.
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    The second source of materials is section 408, which requires 
applicants seeking to register the copyright in published works to 
provide the Office with ``two complete copies or phonorecords of the 
best edition.'' \3\ To avoid the duplication of deposits, section 408 
specifies that copies or phonorecords deposited under section 407 ``may 
be used to satisfy the deposit provisions'' of section 408 if they 
``are accompanied by the prescribed application and fee.'' \4\ 
Registration deposits are ``available to the Library of Congress for 
its collections,'' and items not selected by the Library are retained 
by the Office for a period of time.\5\
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    \3\ Id. at 408(b)(2). Section 408(b) also sets out the deposit 
requirements for the registration of unpublished works (id. at 
408(b)(1)), works first published outside of the United States (id. 
at 408(b)(3)), and contributions to collective works (id. at 
408(b)(4)).
    \4\ Id. at 408(b). Although section 408 states that copies 
deposited pursuant to the mandatory deposit provision in section 407 
may be used to satisfy the registration deposit requirement in 
section 408, in practice, the Office treats copies of works 
submitted for registration as satisfying the mandatory deposit 
requirement (assuming the deposit requirements are the same), and 
not vice versa. 37 CFR 202.19(f)(1), 202.20(e); see Registration of 
Claims to Copyright Deposit Requirements, 43 FR 763, 768 (Jan. 4, 
1978).
    \5\ 17 U.S.C. 704(b), 704(d). Deposits of works submitted under 
either sections 407 and 408 are ``property of the United States 
Government'' and can be used by the Library for its collections. Id. 
at 704(a), 704(b).
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    Both sections 407 and 408 grant the Register of Copyrights broad 
regulatory authority to specify the nature of the

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required deposits, including the ability to exempt certain works from 
the deposit requirements.\6\ Using this authority, the Register has 
permitted the deposit of only one copy instead of two for certain 
classes of works submitted for registration.\7\ Similarly, the Register 
has issued regulations exempting specific categories of works from the 
mandatory deposit requirements.\8\
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    \6\ Id. at 407(c); id. at 408(c)(1).
    \7\ 37 CFR 202.20(c)(2)(i).
    \8\ Id. Sec.  202.19(c) (listing ``categories of material [that] 
are exempt from the deposit requirements of section 407'').
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    The Office also has used its regulatory power in sections 407 and 
408 to accommodate the submission of electronic deposits instead of 
physical deposits in certain cases. With respect to section 407, the 
Office issued an interim rule in 2010 generally exempting electronic 
works that are ``available only online'' from the mandatory deposit 
requirement, with a limited exception for electronic-only serials.\9\ 
The Office revised this rule in 2020 to require the mandatory deposit 
of electronic-only books in response to an affirmative demand under 
section 407(d).\10\ To date, the Office's regulations for registration 
deposits have generally required or preferred the deposit of physical 
copies. Recently, however, the Office created new flexible registration 
options across a number of categories that either permit or require the 
submission of electronic copies depending on the work.\11\ For example, 
in 2018, the Office issued a final rule with respect to the group 
registration of newspaper issues, which states that deposits ``must be 
submitted in a digital form.'' \12\
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    \9\ Mandatory Deposit of Published Electronic Works Available 
Only Online, 75 FR 3863, 3869 (Jan. 25, 2010); 37 CFR 202.19(c)(5). 
The interim rule codified the Office's preexisting practice of not 
demanding copies of electronic-only works such as website content. 
See Mandatory Deposit of Electronic Books and Sound Recordings 
Available Only Online, 81 FR 30505, 30506 (May 17, 2016). Under the 
interim rule and current regulations, copyright owners are not 
obligated to deposit electronic-serials unless and until the Office 
affirmatively makes a demand. See 37 CFR 202.24(a).
    \10\ Mandatory Deposit of Electronic-Only Books, 85 FR 71834 
(Nov. 12, 2020).
    \11\ See, e.g., Group Registration of Contributions to 
Periodicals, 82 FR 29410 (June 29, 2017); Group Registration of 
Photographs, 83 FR 2542 (Jan. 18, 2018); Group Registration of 
Newspapers, 83 FR 4144, 4146 (Jan. 30, 2018); Group Registration of 
Serials, 84 FR 60918 (Nov. 12, 2019); Group Registration of 
Newsletters, 85 FR 31981 (May 28, 2020); Group Registration of Short 
Online Literary Works, 85 FR 37341 (June 22, 2020); Liberalizing the 
Deposit Requirements for Registering a Single Issue of a Serial 
Publication, 87 FR 43744 (July 22, 2022).
    \12\ 37 CFR 202.4(e)(6)(ii) (for group newspaper deposits, 
``[t]he issues must be submitted in a digital form, and each issue 
must be contained in a separate electronic file'').
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    Under its current regulation, the Office places strict limits on 
access to electronic deposits selected by the Library of Congress for 
its collections.\13\ Electronic deposits received by the Library from 
the Office can only be accessed by specific authorized users at limited 
locations, and only two such users may access a particular deposit at a 
time. ``Authorized users'' are defined as (i) Members of the U.S. House 
of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, as well as their officers and 
staff, (ii) the Library of Congress's staff and contractors, and (iii) 
registered researchers who are authorized to use the Library of 
Congress's public reading rooms and the collections that are accessible 
there.\14\ Authorized users may access the Library's electronic 
collections only on the Library's premises at terminals connected to a 
secure network.\15\ The only exception to the on-site requirement is 
for Library staff, who are permitted to access electronic deposits 
``off-site as part of their assigned duties via a secure connection.'' 
\16\ These limitations on access would not be changed by the proposed 
rule.
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    \13\ Id. Sec.  202.18.
    \14\ Id. Sec.  202.18(d). The process for becoming a registered 
researcher is available at https://www.loc.gov/rr/readerregistration.html.
    \15\ Id. Sec.  202.18(b); id. Sec.  202.18(d) (``Authorized 
user' means Library of Congress staff, contractors, and registered 
researchers, and Members, staff and officers of the U.S. House of 
Representatives and the U.S. Senate for the purposes of this 
section.'').
    \16\ Id. Sec.  202.18(a).
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    Although the Copyright Act provides that the Library may select any 
deposit received by the Office, current regulations authorize the 
Library's acquisition of only two types of electronic deposits: those 
received through mandatory deposit pursuant to section 407 and those 
submitted for group registrations of newspapers.\17\ When the 
regulations were enacted, technical limitations prevented the Library 
from selecting and transferring other types of electronic copies to its 
collections. As a result of technical developments since that time, the 
Library has systems now capable of ingesting and preserving online-only 
serials deposited under section 407.\18\ In addition, technical 
development of the Office's electronic registration system (``eCO'') 
now provides the ability for the Library to select and transfer other 
electronic deposits to its collections. The Library's selection 
decisions will remain limited, however, to registration deposits for 
group newspapers and mandatory deposits for eSerials and eBooks absent 
amendment of the Office's regulations. The proposed rule will expand 
the electronic deposits of published works that the Library can 
select.\19\
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    \17\ Id.
    \18\ See 75 FR 3863, 3865 (explaining that ``the Library is 
currently developing technological systems that will allow it to 
ingest electronic works, including those available exclusively 
online, and maintain them in formats suitable for long-term 
preservation'').
    \19\ Neither the current regulation nor the proposed changes 
allow access to unpublished works in electronic form. See also 37 
CFR 201.23 (governing the transfer of unpublished deposits to the 
Library of Congress, requiring the Library maintain ``appropriate 
safeguards against unauthorized copying or other unauthorized use of 
the deposits which would be contrary to the rights of the copyright 
owner'').
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    As the Office reported to Congress in December 2022, the Library is 
``increasing its focus on collecting works in digital form.'' \20\ The 
proposed rule expands the Library's ability to select and transfer to 
its collections additional categories of published works in electronic 
form submitted to the Office. Accordingly, it provides the regulatory 
authority necessary for the Library to meet this goal, while 
maintaining the current limits on public access to the works. 
Additional intended beneficiaries of the proposed rule will be those 
copyright owners who wish to satisfy their deposit requirements under 
sections 407 and 408 through the submission of electronic rather than 
physical deposits.
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    \20\ Letter from Shira Perlmutter, Reg. of Copyrights, U.S. 
Copyright Office, Sen. Thom Tillis, Ranking Member, S. Comm. on the 
Judiciary, Subcomm. on Intell. Prop. at 7 (Dec. 1, 2022) (``Best 
Edition Study'').
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II. Proposed Rule

    The Library and Office propose to expand the current regulations 
governing the transfer of electronic deposits for the Library's 
collections. As the Office's recent study on the best edition 
requirement explained, the Library has determined that in many cases 
its collections needs can be met using electronic deposits of textual 
works,\21\ and it is studying other types of works for which that is 
true.
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    \21\ Id. at 13.
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A. The Proposed Rule's Expansion of Existing Categories

    This Notice of Proposed Rulemaking updates the regulation governing 
the addition of electronic copyright deposits to the Library's 
collections. Specifically, the proposed rule will expand the Library's 
authority to select electronic deposits of published works for addition 
to its collections.\22\ This change is

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effected by replacing the current regulatory language limiting this 
authority to electronic deposits received through group newspaper 
registrations and mandatory deposits with language encompassing all 
published works covered by the following existing regulations: 
Sec. Sec.  202.4 (d) through (g) and (i) through (k) (certain group 
registrations), 202.19 (deposit of published copies or phonorecords for 
the Library of Congress), 202.20 (deposit of copies and phonorecords 
for copyright registration).
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    \22\ The rule will not affect the Library's inability to provide 
public access to unpublished electronic deposits submitted to the 
Office for copyright registration.
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    The proposed rule does not alter the current strict limits on 
access to these works after their selection and acquisition by the 
Library: electronic deposits covered by the proposed rule will be 
available only to authorized users on the Library's premises via a 
secure system. Library staff will continue to have authorization for 
remote access, but only through a secure server and network limited to 
serving the Library. In all cases, access to any individual electronic 
deposit received under sections 407 and 408 will be limited to two 
simultaneous authorized users.

B. The Library's Digital Collections Strategy

    As part of its Digital Collections Strategy, the Library is making 
a gradual shift towards an ``e-preferred'' approach, in which digital 
formats will be preferred over traditional physical formats across its 
major acquisitions streams, including deposits received from the 
Office.\23\ Because of the increased prevalence of digital content, the 
Library's plan encompasses ``all aspects of born digital collecting and 
curation, end-to-end.'' \24\ This will involve policies and workflows 
that support digital content acquisition and curation, developing ``an 
agile technical infrastructure [to] allow for the routine and efficient 
acquisition of desired digital materials,'' and establishing and 
implementing appropriate methods to ``ensure that rights-restricted 
digital content remains secure.'' \25\ A key component of the Library's 
strategy is expanding the acquisition for its collections of digital 
content deposited with the Copyright Office.\26\ But before the Library 
can begin to make operational changes, it must have the legal authority 
to do so. The Office's proposed regulatory amendment will further this 
goal.
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    \23\ U.S. Library of Congress, Digital Collections Strategy 
Overview 2022-2026 at 4-5 (Oct. 2021) (``Digital Collections 
Strategy''), https://www.loc.gov/acq/devpol/Digital%20Collections%20Strategy%20Overview_final.pdf.
    \24\ Id. at 1.
    \25\ Id. at 1-2.
    \26\ Id. at 4 (Library plans to ``[w]ork with the Copyright 
Office to explore and strategically plan the possible implementation 
of regulatory updates'' that help ``[e]xpand the depth and breadth 
of digital content acquisition via the Copyright Office.'').
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    The proposed rule is designed to offer long-term benefits to the 
Library and its authorized users by expanding its collections of 
digital content. By reducing the need for physical deposits, the 
revised rule is also intended to benefit copyright owners. When the 
Library's needs can be met with digital copies, the Office will be able 
to provide additional opportunities for applicants to submit electronic 
deposits with their registration materials.\27\ This will lower the 
overall cost for applicants who would otherwise need to produce and 
mail physical copies to the Office, and will be particularly helpful 
for small businesses and independent creators who may have limited 
resources.\28\
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    \27\ To be clear, the Office does not plan to require applicants 
to submit electronic deposits. Instead, applicants will choose 
whether to submit an electronic or physical deposit. Applicants who 
prefer to submit physical copies will have the ability to do so. See 
Best Edition Study at 8 (Office plans to ``provide digital options 
for additional types of works, although deposits in physical form 
will still be permitted.'').
    \28\ Best Edition Study: Notice and Request for Public Comment, 
87 FR 33836, 33839 (June 3, 2022) (``[w]hile the submission of e-
copies as opposed to print copies for purposes of registration would 
pose some difficulties in terms of service to Congress and other 
user groups, having access to e-copies of the content will be 
beneficial in the long term''); see also Best Edition Study at 5-7 
(discussing Office's efforts to reduce burden on copyright owners 
from compliance with the best edition requirement, particularly from 
submission of physical best edition copies).
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    In turn, the Office's Registration Program will benefit from the 
expansion of copyright owners' ability to submit electronic deposits. 
The Office spends significantly more time and resources to process 
registrations with physical deposits than those with electronic 
ones.\29\ The most significant reason for this disparity is the time 
required to receive mailed deposits. When an application includes an 
electronic deposit, the Office can typically review the registration 
file as soon as it is assigned. But when an applicant mails physical 
copies, it may take weeks or longer for the deposit to reach the Office 
and be connected with the corresponding application.\30\ Because the 
effective date of a registration is the date that the Office receives 
the application, filing fee, and deposit in proper form, the delay 
associated with physical deposits can cause copyright applicants to 
have an effective date much later than the date they submitted an 
electronic application through eCO. The proposed rule will pave the way 
for the Office to increase opportunities for electronic deposits, and 
will allow copyright owners to avoid the delays caused by physical 
deposits and benefit from faster decisions and earlier effective dates 
of registration.
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    \29\ The current average processing time for registrations with 
uploaded digital deposits is 1.2 months if no correspondence is 
needed, or 3.3 months in cases of correspondence. Registrations with 
physical deposits are much longer--an online application with a 
physical deposit takes an average of 2.7 months to resolve with no 
correspondence or 6.6 months with correspondence. Updated 
registration processing times can be found on the Office's website 
at https://www.copyright.gov/registration/docs/processing-times-faqs.pdf.
    \30\ In addition to the time consumed by mail delivery, physical 
deposits consume additional resources to process. Copyright 
deposits, like all material sent to the Capitol Complex, are first 
redirected offsite to be screened and decontaminated for possible 
pathogens. Once the deposit has been screened and delivered to the 
Office, the Materials Control and Analysis Division (``MCAD'') 
manually matches the deposit to the corresponding application. To 
facilitate this process, applicants are supposed to include a 
``shipping slip'' containing a barcode generated by eCO for tracking 
purposes. But many applicants omit the shipping slip with their 
deposits, requiring MCAD to correspond with the applicant, obtain 
the application case number, search for the application in the 
electronic registration system, and manually generate a new shipping 
slip and barcode. Electronic deposits bypass all of these steps and 
avoid the rare occasions where a deposit either does not reach the 
Office at all or is misplaced.
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    Finally, the rule will provide significant benefits to the Office's 
retention and preservation of works. Currently, the Library often 
acquires all physical copies of the registration deposits for its 
collections, and no copies are retained by the Office. If a selected 
work is subsequently needed in connection with litigation or another 
records request, the Office must seek to retrieve a copy from the 
Library.\31\ By contrast, digital deposits can be used by the Library 
for its needs without affecting the Office's records. When a digital 
copy of a work is uploaded into the electronic registration system, the 
copy automatically becomes part of the Office's administrative record. 
If the Library selects an electronically submitted work, the Office can 
retain a digital ``record'' copy,\32\ meaning that work would remain 
available for the applicable retention period as an Office

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record.\33\ Digital copies are also easier to track, store, and 
retrieve than physical copies, allowing the Office to more readily 
provide a copy for use in litigation or in responding to other public 
records requests.
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    \31\ The Office cannot certify copies of works transferred to 
the Library's collection. Its regulations provide that the Office 
will make a certified copy of a registered work if it is needed for 
litigation or other legitimate purposes, provided it has retained a 
copy of that work. 37 CFR 201.2(d)(2). But the Office cannot issue a 
certified copy of a work transferred to the Library or another 
institution. See U.S. Copyright Office, Compendium of U.S. Copyright 
Office Practices, secs. 2405.3, 2409.5 (3d ed. 2021) (``Compendium 
(Third)'').
    \32\ 17 U.S.C. 704(c).
    \33\ The Office retains published deposit materials for a period 
of twenty years. Compendium (Third) sec. 1510.1 (``Published deposit 
materials are currently stored for twenty years.''). If the Office 
closes a file for a published work without issuing a registration or 
refuses to register the work, the deposit materials are retained 
subject to the disposition schedules set by the National Archives 
and Records Administration. Id.
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    Ultimately, the proposed rule will provide significant benefits by 
reducing the Office's and Library's reliance on physical deposits and 
their accompanying logistical challenges. In addition, it will support 
the Library's strategic objective to ``[e]xpand the depth and breadth 
of digital content acquisition via the Copyright Office.'' \34\
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    \34\ Digital Collections Strategy at 4.
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C. Information Technology and Security Considerations

    The Office recognizes that because this rule expands the Library's 
authority to select and transfer to its collections electronic deposits 
of published works submitted for registration, copyright owners may 
have questions about the Library's information technology (``IT'') 
security practices. The security of electronic deposits is a shared 
priority of copyright owners, the Office, and the Library. The Library 
is committed to ``the need to ensure the security of the digital 
content in [its] care'' \35\ and takes careful steps to address 
concerns about the protection of electronic copyright deposits. 
Critically, it employs the same level of encryption to protect 
copyright deposits as other highly sensitive information it holds, such 
as congressional material.\36\ The Office is not aware of any security 
threats to date with respect to the eSerials and eBooks that have been 
submitted for mandatory deposit. In the last decade, the Library has 
received tens of millions of digital files from copyright owners,\37\ 
and it reports that there have been no known instances of a breach in 
its security or theft from its digital collections.
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    \35\ Mandatory Deposit of Electronic-Only Books, 85 FR 38806, 
38812, n.88 (June 29, 2020).
    \36\ See id. at 38811-14 (detailed explanation of the Library's 
IT security improvements and upgrades).
    \37\ Best Edition Study at 18.
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    The Office encourages commenters to review its recent policy study 
on the best edition requirements, which addressed IT security concerns 
in connection with the storage of electronic deposits.\38\ As that 
study explains, the Library has invested substantially in its IT 
security capacity in recent years, including centralizing IT security 
under a Chief Information Officer and enacting policies and practices 
to secure Library and Office data.\39\ The Library also obtains ongoing 
public feedback on its practices in part through the Copyright Public 
Modernization Committee (``CPMC'') and a vulnerability disclosure 
program.\40\
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    \38\ See id. at 16-19.
    \39\ Id. at 17-18.
    \40\ Id. at 19-20.
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    The proposed rule's expansion of the categories of published 
electronic deposits that will be available for the Library's selection, 
combined with the current limits on access, will not increase the risk 
that these deposits will be stolen or misused. Any electronic 
registration deposits that are added to the Library's collections will 
be protected by the same technical measures that currently secure 236 
million electronic serials and 1.2 million e-books.\41\ These security 
measures are extensive--at a recent CPMC meeting, the Library's Chief 
Information Officer detailed the continuous security measures for 
eDeposit material. Among other steps, the data is protected both at 
rest and in transit, with over 300 IT security controls.\42\ These 
controls are subject to repeated testing per the Library's continuous 
monitoring schedule.\43\
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    \41\ Id. at 18.
    \42\ U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress, CPMC Public 
Meeting (Mar. 2, 2023), https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-10761/.
    \43\ Id.
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    Just as with current treatment of electronic deposits, access will 
be restricted to authorized users as defined in the regulation and only 
permitted on the Library's physical premises, with a narrow exception 
for Library staff working offsite over a secure connection.\44\ This 
limited onsite access for authorized users occurs through computer 
terminals located in the Library's reading rooms.\45\ The reading room 
terminals are not connected to the internet, have USB and other ports 
disabled, and are under the supervision of Library staff.
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    \44\ Library staff have limited offsite access to deposits ``as 
part of their assigned duties via a secure connection.'' 37 CFR 
202.18(a). This allows employees working remotely to fulfill work 
duties but does not permit access for other purposes.
    \45\ Access to Rights-Restricted Content, Library of Congress, 
https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/ui/en_US/htdocs/help/eDepositAccess.html (Access to rights restricted content is 
available on dedicated Stacks terminals located in Library reading 
rooms.). While onsite, Library staff may also access these materials 
through their workstations.
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    The Library takes seriously its responsibilities as a steward of 
the cultural works in its collections, including safeguarding deposits 
received from the Office. The Office is confident that the current 
security measures and practices provide robust security for electronic 
deposits in the Library's collection. To the extent there remain 
comments or questions about the security of deposits, the Office is 
prepared to address them in the final rule.

III. Conclusion

    As the Library implements its Digital Collections Strategy, it will 
increase the digital works held in its collections, including through 
the selection of digital deposits submitted to the Copyright Office. 
The proposed rule facilitates this by providing the Library the 
authority to select and transfer digital deposits for all types of 
published works submitted to the Office through the registration 
process. Access to these materials will remain limited and subject to 
the existing regulation's restrictions. These changes will help the 
Library fulfill its mission as the Nation's library and the research 
arm of Congress.
    The Copyright Office welcomes public feedback and seeks comments on 
the regulatory amendments presented in this Notice of Proposed 
Rulemaking, as well as related issues discussed within.

List of Subjects in 37 CFR Part 202

    Claims, Copyright.

    For the reasons set forth in the preamble, the Copyright Office 
proposes amending 37 CFR part 202 as follows:

PART 202--PREREGISTRATION AND 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(f), 702.

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2. Amend Sec.  202.18 by:
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a. In paragraph (a), removing ``Access to electronic works received 
under Sec.  202.4(e) and Sec.  202.19'' and adding in its place 
``Access to published electronic works received under Sec.  202.4(d) 
through (g), Sec.  202.4(i) through (k), Sec.  202.19, or Sec.  
202.20'';
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b. In paragraph (a), removing ``only to authorized users at Library of 
Congress premises'' and adding in its place ``at Library of Congress 
premises only to authorized users'';
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c. In paragraph (b), removing ``Access to each individual electronic 
work received under Sec.  202.4(e) and Sec.  202.19'' and adding in its 
place ``Access to each individual electronic work received pursuant to 
paragraph (a) of this section''; and

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d. In paragraph (c), removing ``electronic works received under Sec.  
202.4(e) and Sec.  202.19'' and adding in its place ``electronic works 
received pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section''.

    Dated: August 24, 2023.
Suzanne V. Wilson,
General Counsel and Associate Register of Copyrights.
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