application for such renewal and
extension shall have been made to the Copyright Office and duly
registered therein within one year prior to the expiration of the
original term of copyright: And provided further, That in the case of
any other copyrighted work, including a contribution by an individual
author to a periodical or to a cyclopedic or other composite work, the
author of such work, if still living, or the widow, widower, or
children of the author, if the author be not living, or if such author,
widow, widower, or children be not living, then the author's executors,
or in the absence of a will, his or her next of kin shall be entitled
to a renewal and extension of the copyright in such work for a further
term of forty-seven years when application for such renewal and
extension shall have been made to the Copyright Office and duly
registered therein within one year prior to the expiration of the
original term of copyright: And provided further, That in default of
the registration of such application for renewal and extension, the
copyright in any work shall terminate at the expiration of twenty-eight
years from the date copyright was originally secured.

(b) Copyrights in Their Renewal Term or Registered for Renewal Before
January 1, 1978.--The duration of any copyright, the renewal term of
which is subsisting at any time between December 31, 1976, and December
31, 1977, inclusive, or for which renewal registration is made between
December 31, 1976, and December 31, 1977, inclusive, is extended to
endure for a term of seventy-five years from the date copyright was
originally secured.

(c) Termination of Transfers and Licenses Covering Extended Renewal
Term.--In the case of any copyright subsisting in either its first or
renewal term on January 1, 1978, other than a copyright in a work made
for hire, the exclusive or nonexclusive grant of a transfer or license
of the renewal copyright or any right under it, executed before January
1, 1978, by any of the persons designated by the second proviso of
subsection (a) of this section, otherwise than by will, is subject to
termination under the following conditions:

(1) In the case of a grant executed by a person or persons other than
the author, termination of the grant may be effected by the surviving
person or persons who executed it. In the case of a grant executed by
one or more of the authors of the work, termination of the grant may be
effected, to the extent