1300-2
1301
Background. (cont'd)
1301.01
Works copyrighted before January 1, 1978. (cont'd)
the end of the year in which the copyright was originally secured; no additional renewal is necessary for such works.
1302
Time limits for renewal. A copyright may be renewed for a renewal term of 47 years, provided that an acceptable application and fee are received in the Copyright Office or elsewhere in the Library of Congress during the year immediately preceding the expiration date of the original term of copyright. See 17 U.S.C. 304(a).
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Unless the required application and fee are received during the prescribed period before the first term of copyright expires, the copyright in the work terminates at the expiration of 28 years from the end of the calendar year in which copyright was originally secured.
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The Copyright Office has no discretion to extend the renewal time limits.
See
37 C.F.R. 202.17(c)(1). 1302.01
1302.01
Informal applications. Whenever a renewal applicant has cause to believe that a formal application for renewal (Form RE) (and in the case of works in which U.S. copyright subsists by virtue of section 9(c) of title 17, U.S.C., in effect on December 31, 1977, an accompanying affidavit and submission relating to the subsistence of first-term copyright), if sent to the Copyright Office by mail, might not be received in the Copyright Office before expiration of the statutory time limits the applicant may apply for renewal registration by telegraphic or similar unsigned written communication. An application made by this method only will be accepted if:
[1984]
