newsletters, journals, bulletins, annuals, the proceedings of societies, and other similar works.
Series of musical, spoken, or other sounds: A series of musical, spoken, or other sounds connotes a temporal succession of sounds rather than simultaneous sounds, such as those expressed in a chord vertically.
Shipping slip: A document generated by the U.S. Copyright Office's electronic registration system. If the applicant submits a physical copy of a work to the Office, the copy must be accompanied by a shipping slip. Failure to include a shipping slip may prevent the Office from connecting the deposit copies with the online application and may require the applicant to resubmit the deposit, thereby affecting the effective date of registration.
Sound recordings: '"Sound recordings' are works that result from the fixation of a series of musical, spoken, or other sounds, but not including the sounds accompanying a motion picture or other audiovisual work, regardless of the nature of the material objects, such as disks, tapes, or other phonorecords, in which they are embodied." 17 U.S.C.§ 101.
Source code: Source code is a set of statements and instructions written by a human being using a particular programming language, such as Java, LISP, LOGO, PASCAL, Programming Inquiry Learning or Teaching, Programming in Logic, Assembly Language, or other programming languages. Typically, these statements are comprehensible to a person who is familiar with the relevant programming language, but they are not comprehensible to a computer or other electronic device. In order to convey these statements and instructions to a machine, the source code must be converted into object code.
Source country: "The 'source country' of a restored work is —
[A] a nation other than the United States;
[B] in the case of an unpublished work —
(i) the eligible country in which the author or rightholder is a national or
domiciliary, or, if a restored work has more than 1 author or rightholder, of which the majority of foreign authors or rightholders are nationals or domiciliaries; or
(if) if the majority of authors or rightholders are not foreign, the nation other than the United States which has the most significant contacts with the work; and
[C] in the case of a published work —
(i) the eligible country in which the work is first published, or
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