If a published collection was partially manufactured in the United States (including the binding, if any] renewal registration may be possible for the contributions manufactured in the United States.
2125 Unpublished Collections
The provision for original term registration of a collection of unpublished material as a single work affects renewal registration for works of visual and performing arts, and certain literary works (lectures, addresses, interviews, etc.) prepared for oral delivery. 30 A renewal registration based on an original registration record for an unpublished collection may extend to all, or some, or only one of the works contained in the collection. When some works are owned separately for the renewal term, separate renewal claims should be filed to clarify the author and owner facts for the renewal term. When the original registration record identified each work within the collection, separate renewal claims may be filed for each work.
2126 Published Collections
When separate, distinct works are assembled and published together in a collection, renewal registration may be possible for both the collection and the contributions. The
30 Section 12 of the Copyright Act of 1909 provided for registration of certain classes of works in unpublished form. Pub. L. No. 60-349, § 12, 35 Stat. 1075, 1078 (1909). By Office practice, such works could be registered together for the original term as an unpublished collection when all of the following conditions were met:
• The collection was assembled in an orderly arrangement;
• The collection bore a single title identifying the collection as a whole;
• The collection as a whole is the subject of a single claim of copyright;
• All of the component works are by the same author, or (if the component works are by different authors) the collection as a whole represents the work of a single author in its compilation; and
• The component works are all of the same class, or the component works are principally of the class in which the collection is to be registered.
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