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Ch. 13
13.3.4
13.3.4
13.3.4
Date of recordation.(cont'd)
II.
Where the fee is to be charged to a Deposit Account, and the Deposit Account does not contain funds sufficient to record the notice, recordation is deferred pending replenishment of the Deposit Account or receipt of a separate recording fee. However, it is the date the notice was received, rather than the date sufficient funds are received, that is regarded as the date of recordation in such cases.
13.3.5
Recording fee.
I.
Statutory provision. Section 215 of the Code prescribes the following recording fees: "For recording a notice of use, $3, for each notice of not more than five titles; and 50 cents for each additional title."
II.
Number of titles.
a.
Generally, in determining the number of titles in a notice of use, the same considerations as those applicable to assignments and related documents are observed. (See item 12.5.5.III.)
b.
Where a notice lists the general title of a collective work, together with the titles of two or more compositions included in the work, it may be necessary to ask the sender how he wishes the notice indexed, in order to determine the recording fee. (Example: Title given as "Some of My Best Friends are Children Folio, containing Finder's Keepers, The Woodchuck, Allee in the Tree, and Kick the Can Willy.")
1.
If the sender wishes the notice of use indexed only under the collective title, the Copyright Office will write and request a new notice of use giving only the collective title and charge for only one title.
2.
If the sender wishes the notice of use indexed under both the individual titles and the
