See 37 C.F.R. § 202.15 (1975); Motion Picture Soundtracks, 40 Fed. Reg. 12,500, 12,501 [Mar. 19, 1975).
NOTE: This regulation applies only to motion pictures first published, or registered as unpublished works, before 1978.
Likewise, renewal registration is possible for a visual work or element (such as a painting or photograph) contained in a motion picture only when the work or element was registered separately for the original term, or the motion picture bore a separate copyright notice for the work.
NOTE: A renewal claim in a component element of a motion picture cannot be based on the original registration record for the motion picture.
2122.6(D) Slides, Slide Films, and Filmstrips
For renewal registration purposes, a slide film or filmstrip must have been first published with the required notice for photographs. See Section 2121.4(A). Slides or photographs on slides that were not fixed and published in a film or video format cannot be registered as a slide film. Instead, for renewal registration purposes, each slide as first published must bear a separate copyright notice as required for photographs.
2123 Multimedia Works
For renewal registration purposes, when a multimedia work consists of parts that are capable of being separated and used independently, the statutory or U.C.C. notice must appear on each component part that contains copyrightable material. If any component part bears its own separate copyright notice a separate renewal claim must be filed for the component part. When a multimedia work was first published with a general copyright notice for the work as a whole, a single renewal claim may be filed for all component parts first published together as a self-contained unit, provided the renewal copyrights in all of the material claimed vested in the same party on the same date. If the work contains an audiovisual element the sounds may be "sound recording" or "sounds accompanying an audiovisual work," depending on whether they are intended to be used in conjunction with the audiovisual component. If a multimedia work does not contain an audiovisual element, the sound component (if any) must bear the copyright notice for sound recordings. For more information about copyright notice requirements, 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 at http:/ / copyright.gov/ comp3 / chap2 1 00/ doc/appendixA-noticerequirements.pdf.
NOTE: Sounds do not have to be physically integrated with the audiovisual work to be "sounds accompanying an audiovisual work."
PART V COPYRIGHT ISSUES RELATED TO RENEWAL REGISTRATION
This Part focuses on several broad issues that affect renewal registration.
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