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[CITE: 17USC709]

 
                          TITLE 17--COPYRIGHTS
 
                       CHAPTER 7--COPYRIGHT OFFICE
 
Sec. 709. Delay in delivery caused by disruption of postal or 
        other services
        
    In any case in which the Register of Copyrights determines, on the 
basis of such evidence as the Register may by regulation require, that a 
deposit, application, fee, or any other material to be delivered to the 
Copyright Office by a particular date, would have been received in the 
Copyright Office in due time except for a general disruption or 
suspension of postal or other transportation or communications services, 
the actual receipt of such material in the Copyright Office within one 
month after the date on which the Register determines that the 
disruption or suspension of such services has terminated, shall be 
considered timely.

(Pub. L. 94-553, title I, Sec. 101, Oct. 19, 1976, 90 Stat. 2594.)