In 1998, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act amended section 304 by substituting “67” for “47” wherever it appeared in subsection (a), by substituting a new subsection (b) and by adding subsection (d) at the end thereof.  Pub.  L. No. 105-298, 112 Stat. 2827.  That Act also amended subsection 304(c) by deleting “by his widow or her widower and his or her children or grandchildren” from the first sentence of paragraph (2), by adding subparagraph (D) at the end of paragraph (2) and by inserting “or, in the case of a termination under subsection (d), within the five-year period specified by subsection (d)(2),” into the first sentence of subparagraph (4)(A). Id.

7 A series of nine Acts of Congress extended until December 31, 1976, previously renewed copyrights in which the renewal term would otherwise have expired between September 19, 1962 and December 31, 1976.  The last of these enactments is Pub.  L. No. 93-573, 88 Stat. 1873, enacted December 31, 1974, which cites the eight earlier acts.  See also section 102 of the Transitional and Supplementary Provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976, in Part I of the Appendix.  Pub.  L. No. 94-553, 90 Stat. 2541.

8 The effective date of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act is October 27, 1998.

9 See endnote 8, supra.

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Chapter 4

Copyright Notice, Deposit, and Registration

+ 401.  Notice of copyright:  Visually perceptible copies
+ 402.  Notice of copyright:  Phonorecords of sound recordings
+ 403.  Notice of copyright:  Publications incorporating United States
Government works
+ 404.  Notice of copyright:  Contributions to collective works
+ 405.  Notice of copyright:  Omission of notice on certain copies and
phonorecords
+ 406.  Notice of copyright:  Error in name or date on certain copies
and phonorecords
+ 407.  Deposit of copies or phonorecords for Library of Congress
+ 408.  Copyright registration in general
+ 409.  Application for copyright registration
+ 410.  Registration of claim and issuance of certificate
+ 411.  Registration and infringement actions
+ 412.  Registration as prerequisite to certain remedies for
infringement

Section 401.  Notice of copyright:  Visually perceptible copies [1]

(a) General Provisions.  Whenever a work protected under this title is published in the United States or elsewhere by authority of the copyright owner, a notice of copyright as provided by this section may be placed on publicly distributed copies from which the work can be visually perceived, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.

(b) Form of Notice.  If a notice appears on the copies, it shall consist of the following three elements: 

(1) the symbol (the letter C in a circle), or the word “Copyright”, or the abbreviation “Copr.”; and