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§ 805. Administrative support of the Commission
(a) To assist in its work, the Commission may appoint a staff which shall be an administrative part of the Library of Congress, but which shall be responsible to the Commission for the administration of the duties entrusted to the staff.
(b) The Commission may procure temporary and intermittent services to the same extent as is authorized by section 3109 of title 5.
§ 806. Deduction of costs of proceedings
Before any funds are distributed pursuant to a final decision in a proceeding involving distribution of royalty fees, the Commission shall assess the reasonable costs of such proceeding.
§ 807. Reports.
In addition to its publication of the reports of all final determinations as provided in section 803(b), the Commission shall make an annual report to the President and the Congress concerning the Commission’s work during the preceding fiscal year, including a detailed fiscal statement of account.
§ 808. Effective date of final determinations
Any final determination by the Commission under this chapter shall become effective thirty days following its publication in the Federal Register as provided in section 803(b), unless prior to that time an appeal has been filed pursuant to section 809, to vacate, modify, or correct such determination, and notice of such appeal has been served on all parties who appeared before the Commission in the proceeding in question. Where the proceeding involves the distribution of royalty fees under section 111 or 116, the Commission shall, upon the expiration and such thirty-day period, distribute any royalty fees not subject to an appeal filed pursuant to section 809.
§ 809. Judicial review
Any final decision of the Commission in a proceeding under section 801(b) may be appealed to the United States Court of Appeals, within thirty days after its publication in the Federal Register, by an aggrieved party. The judicial review of the decision shall be had, in accordance with chapter 7 of title 5, on the basis of the record before the Commission. No court shall have jurisdiction to review a final decision of the Commission except as provided in this section.
transitional and supplementary provisions
Sec. 102. This Act becomes effective on January 1, 1978, except as otherwise expressly provided by this Act, including provisions of the first section of this Act. The provisions of sections 118, 304(b), and chapter 8 of title 17, as amended by the first section of this Act, take effect upon enactment of this Act.
Sec. 103, This Act does not provide copyright protection for any work that goes into the public domain before January 1, 1978. The exclusive rights, as provided by section 106 of title 17 as amended by the first section of this Act, to reproduce a work in phonorecords and to distribute phonorecords of the work, do not extend to any nondramatic musical work copyrighted before July 1, 1909.
Sec. 104. All proclamations issued by the President under section 1(e) or 9(b) of title 17 as it existed on December 31, 1977, or under previous copyright statutes of the United States, shall continue in force until terminated, suspended, or revised by the President.
Sec. 105. (a)(1) Section 505 of title 44 is amended to read as follows:
Ҥ 505. Sale of duplicate plates
“The Public Printer shall sell, under regulations of the Joint Committee on Printing to persons who may apply, additional or duplicate stereotype or electrotype plates from which a Government publication is printed, at a price not to exceed the cost of composition, the metal, and making to the Government, plus 10 per centum, and the full amount of the price shall be paid when the order is filed.”
(2) The item relating to section 505 in the sectional analysis at the beginning of chapter 5 of title 44 is amended to read as follows:
“505. Sale of duplicate plates.”.
(b) Section 2113 of title 44 is amended to read as follows:
Ҥ 2113. Limitation on liability
“When letters and other intellectual productions (exclusive of patented material, published works under copyright protection, and unpublished works for
