Sec. 10. Effective date; transitional provisions
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This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect upon the expiration of the 90-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, except that the provisions of section 701 of title 17, United States Code, as amended by section 2(a) of this Act, shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act. An individual serving as the Register of Copyrights on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act may serve, on and after that date, as the interim Director of the United States Copyright Office until a Director of the United States Copyright Office has been appointed under section 701 of title 17, United States Code, as amended by section 2(a) of this Act.
An individual serving as a Copyright Royalty Judge on the day before the effective date of this Act may continue to serve in that role until the date on which a Copyright Royalty Judge to replace such individual is appointed under section 801 of title 17, United States Code. Effective on the effective date under subsection (a), all employees of the Library of Congress serving in the Copyright Office on the day before such effective date shall become employees of the United States Copyright Office, without a break in service.
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, so much of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds employed, used, held, available, or to be made available in connection with a function that this Act vests in the United States Copyright Office shall be available and transferred to the Director.