COPYRIGHT PROTECTION FOR CIVILIAN FACULTY OF CERTAIN ACCREDITED INSTITUTIONS.

SEC. 544. COPYRIGHT PROTECTION FOR CIVILIAN FACULTY OF CERTAIN ACCREDITED INSTITUTIONS. Section 105 of title 17, United States Code, is amended— (1) by inserting “(a) In general.—” before “Copyright”; and (2) by adding at the end the following: “(b) Copyright Protection of Certain of Works.—Subject to subsection (c), the covered author of a covered work owns the copyright to that covered work. “(c) Use by Federal Government.—The Secretary of Defense may direct the covered author of a covered work to provide the Federal Government with an irrevocable, royalty-free, world-wide, nonexclusive license to reproduce, distribute, perform, or display such covered work for purposes of the United States Government. “(c) Definitions.—In this section: “(1) The term ‘covered author’ means a civilian member of the faculty of a covered institution. “(2) The term ‘covered institution’ means the following: “(A) National Defense University. “(B) United States Military Academy. “(C) Army War College. “(D) United States Army Command and General Staff College. “(E) United States Naval Academy. “(F) Naval War College. “(G) Naval Post Graduate School. “(H) Marine Corps University. “(I) United States Air Force Academy. “(J) Air University. “(K) Defense Language Institute. “(L) United States Coast Guard Academy. “(3) The term ‘covered work’ means a literary work produced by a covered author in the course of employment at a covered institution for publication by a scholarly press or journal.” .