§403. Notice of copyright: Publications incorporating United States Government works — Inbound Citations

Citations to 17 U.S.C. § 403 as a whole

• 17 U.S.C. § 405(a)

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  (a) With respect to copies and phonorecords publicly distributed by authority of the copyright owner before the effective date of the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988, the omission of the copyright notice described in sections 401 through 403 from copies or phonorecords publicly distributed by authority of the copyright owner does not invalidate the copyright in a work if—

  (1) the notice has been omitted from no more than a relatively small number of copies or phonorecords distributed to the public; or

  (2) registration for the work has been made before or is made within five years after the publication without notice, and a reasonable effort is made to add notice to all copies or phonorecords that are distributed to the public in the United States after the omission has been discovered; or

  (3) the notice has been omitted in violation of an express requirement in writing that, as a condition of the copyright owner’s authorization of the public distribution of copies or phonorecords, they bear the prescribed notice.