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15.2.2

Nature and kinds of certified documents.(cont'd)

II.

Kinds of certified documents.(cont'd)

d.

Certified copies of correspondence. Upon payment of certification and photoduplication fees. certified copies may be furnished of "official correspondence, including pre­liminary applications between copyright claimants or their agents and the Copyright

Office, and directly relating to a completed registration or to a recorded. document." (37 C.F.R. §201.2(c). See topic 15.3.3.)

1.

Requests for correspondence "shall identify the specific material desired and shall contain a statement enabling the Copyright Office to determine if the writer is properly and directly con­cerned." (37 C.F.R. §201.2(d)(3))

2.

Copies may not be furnished of "corre­spondence, memoranda, reports, opinions, and similar material relating to internal matters of personnel and procedures, office administration, security matters, and internal consideration of policy and decisional matters, including the work product of an attorney." (37 C.F.R. § 201.2(c)(3))

3.

In the case of "correspondence, appli­cation forms and any accompanying material forming a part of a pending or rejected application," inspection and the making of copies are permitted only "upon presentation of written authorisa­tion of the claimant or his agent, or upon submission to the Register of Copy­rights ... of a written request which is deemed by hill to show good cause for such access and which establishes that the person making the request is one proper1y and directly concerned ," (37 C.F.R. §20l.2(c)(2))