Ch. 8
8.2.2
8.2.2
8-12
8.2.2
Form and position of notice.(cont'd)
II.
Name of the copyright proprietor.(cont'd)
3.
Notices:
© Peter Rabbit Music Co., Ltd., London, 1959, for the entire world (excluding U.S.A. and Canada)
Notices:
© Peter Rabbit Music, Inc., New York, 1959, for U.S.A. and Canada
An application in the name of Peter Rabbit Music Co., Ltd., London, will be questioned.
e.
Where the foreign edition bears a notice that disagrees with the claimant named in the application, the variance will be questioned.
1.
If the person named in the notice was the owner of the right to secure U.S. copyright on the date of first publication abroad, the Office will request that registration be made in his name, and will
point out the possibility of recording an assignment.2.
Where the work is an English-language book or periodical which would have been subject to the manufacturing requirements unless published with the U.C.C. notice provided in § 9(c), registration on Form A-B Foreign will be made only in the name in the notice; recordation of an assignment will be suggested where appropriate. In such a case registration in the name of someone other than the person named in the notice will be considered only on Form A-B Ad Interim.
Example
An English-language book by a British author is manufactured and first published in the United Kingdom with a notice in the name of Colin Outsider; an application is submitted in the name of The Insider Press, Inc., a U.S. publishing firm. Registration on Form A-B Foreign will be made only in the name of Outsider; if the applicant wishes registration in the name of The Insider Press, Inc., he must apply for ad interim registration on Form A-B Ad Interim.
3.
In cases other than those described in paragraph 2, above, where the name in the notice was not that of the owner of the right to secure U.S.
copyright on the date of first publication:
