8-23
Ch. 8
8.4.6
8.4.6
8.4.6
Extension of ad interim copyright to full term.(cont'd)
II.
Requirements for full-term registration.(cont'd)
4.
Deposit is made of an application, two copies of the American edition, and the registration fee.
b.
As a rule, registration for the American edition should be made within the five-year ad interim term. However, as long as the edition was manufactured and published in the U.S. within the five-year period, registration will be made after the ad interim term has expired I as a doubtful case. A cautionary letter will be sent in such cases.
III.
Extension of subsisting ad interim copyrights under U.C.C.
a.
The statute (§ 9(c)) also provides that on the date the U.C.C. comes into effect in a particular country copy right protection for any book or periodical by a citizen of such country, in which an ad interim copyright was subsisting on that date, is automatically extended to the full term.
b.
For this purpose, ad interim copyright was subsisting in the work on the effective date of the U.C.C. if a claim to ad interim copyright had actually been registered on or before the effective date. It was not subsisting if the work was published more than six months before the effective date, or was published within six months before the effective date but without the U.C.C. notice. Where a work was published within six months before the effective date and bore a U.C.C. notice, the case will be treated as though an ad interim copyright was subsisting in the work on the effective date, under the rule of doubt.
c.
Where a subsisting ad interim copyright has been extended to the full term by virtue of the provisions of the U.C.C. and. §9(c), registration for a later American reprint edition will not be refused if it meets the four requirements specified in topic 8.4.6.II.a., above.
