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case should be referred unless the application adequately identifies the periodical or composite work. In the case of a periodical, referral should be made unless the particular issue in which the contribution was first published is identified.

2.
It is not necessary that the information in this space be complete or entirely accurate.
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Athors of Renewable Matter.
1.
Where renewal is claimed in the name of an author's widow, children, executors, or next of kin, referral should be made if the renewal application does not state the name of at least one author of renewable matter, although this need not necessarily appear 1n the space provided for it. The case should also be referred where more than one author of renewable matter is indicated, and it is imposs1ble to deter­mine on whose authorship the claim is based.
2..
A case should be referred where, in the ordinary course of cataloging, a conflict or clear inconsistency is noted between the renewal claim stated on an application and the statement of the "authors of renewable matter" appearing on the same application.
Examples:
a)

Renewal Claimant: Manny Baldwin as author of words
Author of Renewable Matter:Manny Baldwin as author of music.

b)

Renewal Claimant:Samuel Shadwell as arranger

Author of renewable Matter:
Samuel Shadwell as author of words and music.
3.
As a rule, the following cases should not be referred:
a)
Author's name misspelled or incomplete.
b)
Application gives only part of authors listed on original records.