publication. This notice consisted of the symbol © accompanied by the name of the copyright owner and the year date of publication. The notice had to be located on the work in such manner and location as to give reasonable notice of the copyright claim. U.C.C. works were exempt in the United States from certain registration and deposit requirements and the manufacturing clause. (These exemptions were not applicable to works by U.S. nationals or domiciliaries, or to works first published in the United States.) U.C.C. works secured statutory protection in the United States automatically upon publication with the required copyright notice. Although no registration was required to secure the full original term of copyright in the United States, renewal registration during the last year of the original term was required to extend copyright into the renewal term. An affidavit attesting to the facts of first publication and proof of copyright notice had to accompany the renewal claim, if no registration was made for the original term.
Unitary work. For renewal registration purposes, a single work which has a common design or overarching theme and where, if there are component parts within the work, the parts are joined together, merged, or otherwise absorbed into an integrated or unified whole. The component parts may be inseparable (as in a novel or a mural painting or certain types of dramatic works], or separable but interdependent (as in a motion picture or the words and music of a song). A unitary work, with its requisite elements of merger and unity, can be contrasted with a published collection in which independent or disparate works of authorship are assembled or gathered together, but not merged or absorbed into a unified whole, and with a composite work, which lacks a common design or unity. See U.S. Copyright Office, Study No. 12: Joint Ownership of Copyrights (1958].
United States. For renewal registration purposes, the United States comprise the States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, Panama Canal Zone, America Samoa, and other trust territories. For the manufacturing requirements, unorganized areas under the jurisdiction of the United States (such as Guam, Panama Canal Zone, Virgin Islands, and American Samoa] are not considered a part of the United States.
Unpublished collection. By regulation, certain types of unpublished works could be grouped together and registered for the original term as a single work Generally, to be registered as an unpublished collection, the group of works had to be unpublished at the time of registration and meet certain criteria. For information concerning these requirements, see Section 2125.
URAA. On December 8, 1994, the Copyright Act of 1976 was amended by the enactment of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act ("URAA"], which provided (among other provisions] for the automatic restoration of copyright in certain foreign works (or statutory protection in the case of foreign sound recordings] that were in the public domain in the United States but not in their "source country." Copyright in the United States was automatically restored (or secured] for such works on January 1, 1996 (or on the date of adherence or proclamation of the source country, if later] and endures for the remainder of the term a work would have otherwise been granted in the United States. (For published or constructed architectural works, the effective date of restoration of U.S. copyright is December 1, 1990.] Claims in restored copyrights maybe
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