Exception: When the work was first published abroad, the applicant generally should name the owner of the right to secure U.S. copyright on the date of first publication. However, in certain cases it may be necessary or acceptable to name the proprietor in the notice. For more information about who should be named as the original copyright claimant, see U.S. Copyright Office, Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices Chs. 4, 8.2, & Supplementary Practice Nos. 18, 19, 27, 29, 35 & 37 [1st ed. 1973), available a t http:/ / copyright.gov/ comp3 / chap2 1 00/ doc/appendixA-noticerequirements.pdf.
Exception to exception: For works subject to the manufacturing clause, the renewal claim should name the proprietor identified in the copyright notice, unless the work was published with the U.C.C. notice.
2115.2(F) Ad Interim Copyright Information
A renewal claim based on an ad interim registration record should provide information about the registration for the subsequent U.S. edition. Otherwise, renewal registration generally will be refused.
Exceptions:
• If ad interim copyright was subsisting when the country of the author's nationality joined the U.C.C, the work did not have to be manufactured and published in the United States to secure the full original term of copyright 10 Copyright Act of 1909, amended by Pub. L. No. 83-743, § 9(c), 68 Stat. 1030, 1031 (1954).
• Likewise, when ad interim copyright subsisted, or was capable of being secured on December 31, 1977 [i.e., works first published between July 1 and December 31,
10 "For this purpose, ad interim copyright was subsisting. ..if a claim to ad interim copyright had actually been registered on or before the effective date. It was not subsisting if the work was published more than six months before the effective date or was published within six months before the effective date but without the U.C.C. notice. Where a work was published within six months before the effective date and bore a U.C.C. notice, the case will be treated as though an ad interim copyright was subsisting in the work on the effective date, under the rule of doubt." Compendium (First) § 8.4.6.III.b.
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