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2.8.2

Classification of works of art

I.

Nature of the material

a.

Single-page works. A single-page work of art is one whose content appears on one or both sides of a leaf, sheet, or their equivalent, A painting on canvas, board, or the like, may be considered a single-page work for purposes of classi­fication.

1.

Pictorial or graphic material. Class G is the appropriate category for the registration of all individ­ual pictorial or graphic works of art, in either published or unpub­lished form.

(a)

Class H. If the copyright claim is based only upon a pub­lished reproduction of an existing work of art and does not extend to the underlying work reproduced, Class H is the more appropriate category for registration. (See Part 2.9.)

(b)

Class I. If the pictorial or graphic material is designed for a scientific or technical use, such as a mechanical drawing, registration in Class I is more appropriate. (See Part 2.10.) However, if the-work is primarily aesthetic in its appeal or in the effect it produces, as for example, a drawing depicting the exterior of a building in per­spective with trees and shrubbery, registration in Class G may not be inappropriate.

[1973]