---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 1741"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "1741"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/1741"
units:
  - "Chapter 27 — Sound Recording Preservation by the Library of Congress"
  - "Subchapter IV — General Provisions"
---

# §1741. Definitions


As used in this chapter:

- (1) The term “Librarian” means the Librarian of Congress.
- (2) The term “Board” means the National Recording Preservation Board.
- (3) The term “sound recording” has the meaning given such term in [section 101 of title 17](/usc/17/101.md).
- (4) The term “publication” has the meaning given such term in [section 101 of title 17](/usc/17/101.md).
- (5) The term “Registry version” means, with respect to a [sound recording](#3), the version of a recording first published or offered for mass distribution whether as a [publication](#4) or a broadcast, or as complete a version as bona fide preservation and restoration activities by the [Librarian](#1), an archivist other than the [Librarian](#1), or the copyright legal owner can compile in those cases where the original material has been irretrievably lost or the recording is unpublished.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–474, title I, § 131, Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2090.)