4: Library of Congress
Support Library of Congress service to Congress and the American people by providing timely acquisition of copyrighted works
required by the Library
Other Information:
Under the mandatory deposit provisions of section 407, publishers are required to deposit in the Library two copies of a work
within three months of publication in the United States. Copyrighted works received through registration and mandatory deposit
are the Library’s main source of works by American authors. The Copyright Office also requests works not yet received but
wanted for the collections. One of the rationales that led Congress to create a centralized copyright function in the Library
of Congress was the availability of deposited works for the Library’s collections. The Copyright Office’s objectives for this
goal are to support the Library’s service to Congress and the American people by contributing significantly to sustaining
the Library’s collections through • acquisition of more digital works, including online/web-based works • broader understanding
of deposit requirements
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