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 1030 Un c ompensated personnel.

Appointments and expenditures. 63 Stat. 972. 5 USC 1071 note.

Federal agency assistance.

Reports.

Termination. Appropriation.

PUBLIC LAW 743-AUG. 31, 1954 '

Copyrights. 61 Stat. 655.

Works of aliens.

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(c) The Commission is authorized to accept and utilize services of voluntary and uncompensated personnel and to pay any such personnel necessary traveling and subsistence expenses when engaged in the work of the Commission. (d) Within the limits of its appropriations, the Commission is authorized to appoint such personnel, without regard to the civilservice laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to procure such printing and binding, and to make such expenditures as, in its discretion, it deems necessary. (e) The Commission is authorized to request and secure the advice or assistance of any Federal agency. Any Federal agency furnishing advice or assistance to the Commission may expend its own funds for this purpose, with or without reimbursement from the Commission as may be agreed upon between the Commission and the agency. (f) The Commission shall report annually to the President and Congress its progress and recommendations pertaining to such a memorial. Upon the conclusion of its work, the Commission shall promptly submit a final report. (g) Thirty days after the submission of its final report the Commission shall cease to exist. SEC. 6. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the expenses of the Commission. Approved August 31, 1964. Public Law 743

August 31, 1954 [H. R. 6616]

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CHAPTER 1161

AN ACT To amend title 17, United States Code, entitled "Copyrights".

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 9 of title 17, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "§ 9. Authors or proprietors, entitled: aliens "The author or proprietor of any work made the subject of copyright by this title, or his executors, administrators, or assigns, shall have copyright for such work under the conditions and for the terms specified in this title: Provided, however, That the copyright secured by this title shall extend to the work of an author or proprietor who is a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation only under the conditions described in subsections (a), (b), or (c) below: " (a) When an alien author or proprietor shall be domiciled within the United States at the time of the first publication of his work; or "(b) When the foreign state or nation of which such author or proprietor is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens, or copyright protection, substantially equal to the protection secured to such foreign author under this title or by treaty; or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States may, at its pleasure, become a party thereto. "The existence of the reciprocal conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States, by proclamation made from time to time, as the purposes of this title may require: Provided, That whenever the President shall find that the authors, copyright owners, or proprietors of works first produced or published abroad and subject to copyright or to renewal of copyright under the laws of

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