---
kind: "section"
citation: "37 C.F.R. § 203.2"
title: "37"
number: "203.2"
heading: "Authority and functions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/37/203.2"
---

# §203.2. Authority and functions.


The administration of the copyright law was entrusted to the Library of Congress by an act of Congress in 1870, and the Copyright Office has been a separate department of the Library since 1897. The statutory functions of the Copyright Office are contained in and carried out in accordance with the Copyright Act.


## Notes

### Amendments

[82 FR 9362, Feb. 6, 2017]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 774, Jan. 4, 1978, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[82 FR 9362, Feb. 6, 2017]