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2.8.3

Registration requirements(cont'd)

I.

Copyrightable subject-matter(cont'd)

b.

Sculptural material(cont'd)

1.

Minimal standards(cont'd)

Examples

(cont'd)

(c)

(cont'd)

describes as three-dimensional." No copyrightable authorship is claimed in the design of the individual pieces of glass. Practice: Registration based up­ on the cumulative effect produced by the component members of the mobile will be refused. If these members had contained copy­rightable authorship, registra­tion could have been considered on the basis of the two­ dimensional design features dis­played by the pieces of glass.

c.

New matter. If a work of art which has been previously published or previously registered in unpublished form contains new pictorial, graphic, or sculptural material, registration based upon such

material may be made in Class G, provided the "new matter" is original and copy­rightable in itself.

Examples:

 

(1)

A pencil drawing of an old man's head has been registered as an unpublished

[1973]