notice of termination under Sections 203, 304(c), or 304(d) of Title 17 of the United States Code, "[t]he date of recordation is the date when all of the elements required for recordation, including the prescribed fee and, if required, the statement referred to in [37 C.F.R. § 201.10(f)(l)(ii)], have been received in the Copyright Office." 37 C.F.R. § 201.10(f)(3). 3) For the recordation of a Visual Arts Registry Statement "[t]he date of recordation is the date when all of the elements required for recordation, including the prescribed fee, have been received in the Copyright Office." 37 C.F.R. § 201.26(e).
De minimis: A legal term that is based on the Latin phrase "de minimis non curat lex," which means "the law does not take notice of very small or trifling matters." Creative authorship is deemed "de minimis" when a work does not contain the minimal degree of original, creative expression required to satisfy the test for originality in copyright.
Deposit: See "deposit copy."
Deposit account: A standing account with the U.S. Copyright Office from which customers can draw funds to pay for services provided by the Office.
Deposit copy: A physical or electronic embodiment of a work. A deposit copy may be on or in various media [e.g., paper, videotape, online digital code, etc.) and may consist of multiple components. A deposit copy is submitted with an application for registration and must conform to the U.S. Copyright Office's regulations and other requirements. For copyright registration purposes, the deposit copy should be clear and should contain all of the authorship that the applicant intends to register.
Deposit copies: The plural form of "deposit copy."
Deposit copy(ies): A term meaning "deposit copy" and/or "deposit copies." Derivative: See "derivative work."
Derivative work: "A 'derivative work' is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications, which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a 'derivative work.'" 17U.S.C.§ 101.
Display: "To 'display' a work means to show a copy of it, either directly or by means of a film, slide, television image, or any other device or process or, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to show individual images nonsequentially." 17 U.S.C. § 101.
Document cover sheet: See "Form DCS."
Document pertaining to copyright: "A document shall be considered to 'pertain to a copyright' if it has a direct or indirect relationship to the existence, scope, duration, or identification of a copyright, or to the ownership, division, allocation, licensing, transfer,
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