2 The Copyright Fees and Technical Amendments Act of 1989 amended section 701 by adding subsection (e).  Pub.  L. No. 101-319, 104 Stat. 290.  In 1998, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act amended section 701 by adding a new subsection (b), redesignating former subsections (b) through (e) as (c) through (f) respectively, and, in the new subsection (f), by substituting “III” for “IV” and “5314” for “5315.”  Pub.  L. No. 105-304, 112 Stat. 2860, 2887.

3 Title 5 of the United States Code is entitled “Government Organization and Employees.”

4 Copyright Office regulations are published in the Federal Register
    [http://www.loc.gov/copyright/fedreg/] and in title 37, Chapter II,
    of the Code of Federal Regulations.
    [http://www.loc.gov/copyright/title37/]

5 The Work Made for Hire and Copyright Corrections Act of 2000 amended section 705 by rewriting paragraph (a).  Pub.  L. No. 106-379, 114 Stat. 1444, 1445.

6 The Copyright Fees and Technical Amendments Act of 1989 amended section 708 by substituting a new subsection (a), by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as subsections (c) and (d), respectively, and by adding a new subsection (b).  Pub.  L. No. 101-318, 104 Stat. 287.  The Act states that these amendments “shall take effect 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act” and shall apply to: 

(A) claims to original, supplementary, and renewal copyright received for registration, and to items received for recordation in the Copyright Office, on or after such effective date, and

(B) other requests for services received on or after such effective date, or received before such effective date for services not yet rendered as of such date.

With respect to prior claims, the Act states that claims to original, supplementary, and renewal copyright received for registration and items received for recordation in acceptable form in the Copyright Office before the above mentioned effective date, and requests for services which are rendered before such effective date “shall be governed by section 708 of title 17, United States Code, as in effect before such effective date.”  Pub.  L. No. 101-318, 104 Stat. 287, 288.

The Copyright Renewal Act of 1992 amended paragraph (2) of section 708(a) by striking the words “in its first term” and by substituting “$20” in lieu of “$12.”  Pub.  L. No. 102-307, 106 Stat. 264, 266.

In 1997, section 708 was amended by rewriting subsections (b) and (d) in their entirety.  Pub.  L. No. 105-80, 111 Stat. 1529, 1532.

The Work Made for Hire and Copyright Corrections Act of 2000 amended section 708 by rewriting subsection (a), by substituting new language for the first sentence in subsection (b) and by substituting “adjustment” for “increase” in paragraph (b)(1), the word “adjust” for “increase” in paragraph (b)(2) and the word “adjusted” for “increased” in paragraph (b)(5).  Pub.  L. No. 106-379, 114 Stat. 1444, 1445.  The Act also stated that “The fees under section 708(a) of title 17, United States Code, on the date of the enactment of this Act shall be the fees in effect under section 708(a) of such title on the day before such date of enactment.”