Successor. A party that has acquired the renewal copyright in a work by means of legal succession from the vested owner in whose name no renewal registration was previously made.
Supplementary registration. A registration made upon application under Section 408(d) of the Copyright Act of 1976, "to correct an error in a copyright
registration or to amplify the information given in a registration The information in a
supplementary registration augments but does not supersede that contained in the earlier registration." 17 U.S.C. § 408(d).
Syndication. For renewal registration purposes, the distribution of radio shows and television shows to multiple radio stations and television stations for broadcast by those stations. It was common where broadcast programming was scheduled by television networks with local independent affiliates, particularly here in the United States.
Timely renewal registration. A renewal registration made during the renewal filing period.
To vest. To give a fixed, noncontingent right of present or future enjoyment of the renewal copyright in a work. Although the vested right in a renewal copyright may have been determined by a timely renewal registration, the exercise of such right did not commence until the beginning of the renewal term.
U.C.C. (Universal Copyright Convention). The U.C.C. is an international copyright treaty to which the United States is a party. The treaty was drafted in Geneva in 1952 and came into force in the United States on September 16, 1955. The treaty was revised and the United States is a party to the version as revised at Paris in 1971 as of July 10, 1974. The practical purpose of the convention was to reduce formalities for securing copyright among participating countries for certain literary, artistic, and scientific works. As a general rule, the U.C.C. required a participating country to give the same protection to foreign works that meet the Convention requirements as it gives to its own domestic works. To be eligible for renewal registration under the Convention, a work should have been authored by a national of a participating country, or should have been published for the first time in a participating country.
U.C.C. author. A national of a participating U.C.C. country (other than the United States) who was not domiciled in the United States at the time of first publication.
U.C.C. country. A country, other than the United States, that adheres to the Universal Copyright Convention, Geneva, 1952. For a list of participating countries to the Convention, and their dates of adherence, see U.S. Copyright Office, United States Copyright Relations of Current Interest (1960).
U.C.C. works. In general, a work was eligible for U.S. copyright protection as a U.C.C. work if the author was a national of a country (other than the United States) that was a party to the U.C.C. at the time of first publication, or if the work was first published in a U.C.C. country (other than the United States) after September 16, 1955, and was not published in the United States within the next thirty days. To be a U.C.C. work, copies had to bear the copyright notice prescribed by the U.C.C. from the time of first
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