dentifying portions or reproductions of them, shall be retained under
the control of the Copyright Office, including retention in Government
storage facilities, for the longest period considered practicable and
desirable by the Register of Copyrights and the Librarian of Congress.
After that period it is within the joint discretion of the Register and
the Librarian to order their destruction or other disposition; but, in
the case of unpublished works, no deposit shall be knowingly or
intentionally destroyed or otherwise disposed of during its term of
copyright unless a facsimile reproduction of the entire deposit has
been made a part of the Copyright Office records as provided by
subsection (c).

(e) The depositor of copies, phonorecords, or identifying material
under section 408, or the copyright owner of record, may request
retention, under the control of the Copyright Office, of one or more of
such articles for the full term of copyright in the work. The Register
of Copyrights shall prescribe, by regulation, the conditions under
which such requests are to be made and granted, and shall fix the fee
to be charged under section 708(a)(11) if the request is granted.

Section 705. Copyright Office records: Preparation, maintenance,
public inspection, and searching.

(a) The Register of Copyrights shall provide and keep in the Copyright
Office records of all deposits, registrations, recordations, and other
actions taken under this title, and shall prepare indexes of all such
records.

(b) Such records and indexes, as well as the articles deposited in
connection with completed copyright registrations and retained under
the control of the Copyright Office, shall be open to public inspection.

(c) Upon request and payment of the fee specified by section 708, the
Copyright Office shall make a search of its public records, indexes,
and deposits, and shall furnish a report of the information they
disclose with respect to any particular deposits, registrations, or
recorded documents.

Section 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 furnish