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Preface

This volume contains the text of title 17 of the United States Code, including all  amendments enacted through December 9, 2010, in the second session of the  111th Congress. This publication includes the Copyright Act of 1976 and all subsequent amendments to copyright law; the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act  of 1984, as amended; and the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act, as amended. The  Copyright Office is responsible for registering intellectual property claims under  all three. 

The United States copyright law is contained in chapters 1 through 8 and 10  through 12 of title 17 of the United States Code. The Copyright Act of 1976, which  provides the basic framework for the current copyright law, was enacted on  October 19, 1976, as Pub. L. No. 94-553, 90 Stat. 2541. The 1976 Act was a comprehensive revision of the copyright law in title 17. Listed below in chronological  order of their enactment are subsequent amendments to title 17.

Chapters 9 and 13 of title 17 contain two types of design protection that are  independent of copyright protection. Chapter 9 of title 17 is the Semiconductor  Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA), as amended. On November 8, 1984, the  SCPA was enacted as title III of Pub. L. No. 98-620, 98 Stat. 3335, 3347. Chapter  13 of title 17 is the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act (VHDPA). It was enacted on  October 28, 1998, as title V of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA),  Pub. L. No. 105-304, 112 Stat. 2860, 2905. Subsequent amendments to the title  17 provisions for SCPA and the VHDPA are also included in the list below, in  chronological order of their enactment. 

Significant copyright legislation enacted since the last printed edition of this  circular in October 2007 includes the Satellite Television Extension and Localism  Act of 2010. For more details, this statute appears at the end of the chronological  list below of statutory enactments that amend title 17 of the United States Code. 

For transitional and supplementary provisions that do not amend title 17, see  the appendices.

Statutory Enactments Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code 

•  [Copyright Act of 1976], Pub. L. No. 94-553, 90 Stat. 2541 (for the general revision of copyright law, title 17 of the United States Code, and for other purposes), October 19, 1976. 

•  Legislative Branch Appropriation Act,1978, Pub. L. No. 95-94, 91 Stat. 653, 682 (amending §203 and §708, title 17, United States Code, regarding the deposit

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