---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 U.S.C. § 706"
title: "17"
title_heading: "Copyrights"
number: "706"
heading: "Copies of Copyright Office records"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/17/706"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Copyright Office"
---

# §706. Copies of Copyright Office records

- (a) Copies may be made of any public records or indexes of the Copyright Office; additional certificates of copyright registration and copies of any public records or indexes may be furnished upon request and payment of the fees specified by section 708.
- (b) Copies or reproductions of deposited articles retained under the control of the Copyright Office shall be authorized or furnished only under the conditions specified by the Copyright Office regulations.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–553, title I, § 101, Oct. 19, 1976, 90 Stat. 2592.)