---
kind: "section"
citation: "37 C.F.R. § 381.9"
title: "37"
number: "381.9"
heading: "Unknown copyright owners."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/37/381.9"
---

# §381.9. Unknown copyright owners.


If PBS and its stations, NPR and its stations, or other public broadcasting entity is not aware of the identity of, or unable to locate, a copyright owner who is entitled to receive a royalty payment under this part, they shall retain the required fee in a segregated trust account for a period of three years from the date of the required payment. No claim to such royalty fees shall be valid after the expiration of the three-year period. Public broadcasting entities may establish a joint trust fund for the purposes of this section. Public broadcasting entities shall make available to the Copyright Royalty Judges, upon request, information concerning fees deposited in trust funds.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 17 U.S.C. 118, 801(b)(1) and 803.

### Source

Source: 72 FR 67647, Nov. 30, 2007, unless otherwise noted.