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Ch. 11
11.5.1
11.5.1
Part 11.5 CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS AND COMPOSITE WORKS
11.5.1
Separate claims. Claims to renewal copyright in contributions to periodicals and other composite works may be registered, whether or not the individual contributions were separately registered apart from the work in which they first appeared.
I.
Identification of composite work. A renewal application covering a contribution which was not registered separately must clearly identify the periodical or other composite work in which it first appeared.
a.
The facts of registration and publication date for the periodical or other work must be given on the application.
b.
All other facts are taken at face value unless a patent error or ambiguity is presented.
II.
Different claimants. A contribution which was published with a separate copyright notice should be separately registered for the original term of copyright before renewal registration is made, if the claimant stated in the notice differs from the claimant given in the notice on the composite work as a whole. The Copyright Office requires original registration as a condition to renewal entry when this fact is known. When the notices on the contribution and the composite work are the same, original registration is optional.
III.
Installments, single entry. When, under a former practice, a number of installments of a serial were registered for copyright under a single entry number, a single renewal application will be accepted.
IV.
Installments, separate entries. When renewal is claimed in a number of installments which were not registered separately, individual renewal applications and fees are required for each installment.
11.5.2
First publication basis. In order to be acceptable, a renewal claim in an individual contribution which was not registered separately must be based on first publication of the work.
Examples:
an application covering a short story which appeared in BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1923, a reprint anthology, would be rejected.
