DURATION OF COPYRIGHT PROVISION

SEC. 102. DURATION OF COPYRIGHT PROVISION (a) Preemption With Respect to Other Laws.—Section 301(c) of title 17, United States Code, is amended by striking “February 15, 2047” each place it appears and inserting “February 15, 2067”. (b) Duration of Copyright: Works Created on or After January 1, 1987.—Section 302 of title 17, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (a) by striking “fifty” and inserting “70”; (2) in subsection (b) by striking “fifty” and inserting “70”; (3) in subsection (c) in the first sentence— (A) by striking “seventy–five” and inserting “95”; and (B) by striking “one hundred” and inserting “120”; and (4) in subsection (e) in the first sentence— (A) by striking “seventy–five” and inserting “95”; (B) by striking “one hundred” and inserting “120”; and (C) by striking “fifty” each place it appears and inserting “70”. (c) Duration of Copyright: Works Created but not Published or Copyrighted Before January 1, 1987.—Section 303 of title 17, United States Code, is amended in the second sentence by striking “December 31, 2027” and inserting “December 31, 2047”. (d) Duration of Copyright: Subsisting Copyrights.— (1) In general.—Section 304 of title 17, United States Code, is amended— (A) in subsection (a)— (i) in paragraph (1)— (I) in subparagraph (B) by striking “47” and inserting “67”; and (II) in subparagraph (C) by striking “47” and inserting “67”;112 STAT. 2828 (ii) in paragraph (2)— (I) in subparagraph (A) by striking “47” and inserting “67”; and (II) in subparagraph (B) by striking “47” and inserting “67”; and (iii) in paragraph (3)— (I) in subparagraph (A)(i) by striking “47” and inserting “67”; and (II) in subparagraph (B) by striking “47” and inserting “67”; (B) by amending subsection (b) to read as follows: “(b) Copyrights in Their Renewal Term at the Time of the Effective Date of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.—Any copyright still in its renewal term at the time that the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act becomes effective shall have a copyright term of 95 years from the date copyright was originally secured.”; (C) in subsection (c)(4)(A) in the first sentence by inserting “or, in the case of a termination under subsection (d), within the five–year period specified by subsection (d)(2),” after “specified by clause (3) of this subsection,”; and (D) by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(d) Termination Rights Provided in subsection (c) Which Have Expired on or Before the Effective Date of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.—In the case of any copyright other than a work made for hire, subsisting in its renewal term on the effective date of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act for which the termination right provided in subsection (c) has expired by such date, where the author or owner of the termination right has not previously exercised such termination right, the exclusive or nonexclusive grant of a transfer or license of the renewal copyright or any right under it, executed before January 1, 1978, by any of the persons designated in subsection (a)(1)(C) of this section, other than by will, is subject to termination under the following conditions: “(1) The conditions specified in subsections (c) (1), (2), (4), (5), and (6) of this section apply to terminations of the last 20 years of copyright term as provided by the amendments made by the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. “(2) Termination of the grant may be effected at any time during a period of 5 years beginning at the end of 75 years from the date copyright was originally secured.”. (2) Copyright amendments act of 1992.—Section 102 of the Copyright Amendments Act of 1992 (Public Law 102–307; 106 Stat. 266; 17 U.S.C. 304 note) is amended— (A) in subsection (c)— (i) by striking “47” and inserting “67”; (ii) by striking “(as amended by subsection (a) of this section)”; and (iii) by striking “effective date of this section” each place it appears and inserting “effective date of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act”; and (B) in subsection (g)(2) in the second sentence by inserting before the period the following: “, except each reference to forty–seven years in such provisions shall be deemed to be 67 years”.112 STAT. 2829