Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, Third Edition
Motion Pictures or Audiovisual Works / Form PA
- Entire motion picture
- Cinematography
- Production
- Direction
- Script
- Screenplay
- Audiovisual material
Single Serial Issue (i.e., a single issue of a serial publication) /Form SE
- Compilation
- Contribution(s) to a collective work
- Text
- Photograph(s)
- Artwork
618.4(C) Recommended Terminology for Asserting a Claim to Copyright
This Section provides a definition and discussion of the various terms that may be used to assert a claim to copyright in the Author Created field or the Nature of Authorship space.
- Architectural work. This term may be used to describe a work consisting of the design of a building, including the overall form as well as the arrangement and composition of spaces and elements in the design. By contrast, the blueprints or architectural plans for an architectural work should be described as a technical drawing. A technical drawing can be used to support either (i) an architectural work, or (ii) pictorial or graphic authorship in a technical drawing (i.e., the design or plans themselves as distinct from the architectural work). For a discussion of the specific practices and procedures for registering technical drawings and architectural works, see Chapter 900, Sections 922 and 923.
- 2-D artwork, 2-dimensional artwork. This term may be used to describe the authorship in a pictorial or graphic work. For example, it may be used to describe two-dimensional artwork appearing in paintings, drawings, collages, stencils, patterns, posters, calendars, games, commercial prints, labels, logos, packaging, and greeting cards. It may be used to describe unanimated drawings and graphics that appear on a website or computer screen. (If the drawings or graphics are animated, the applicant should use the term audiovisual work to describe the work.) The term 2-D artwork may be used to describe two-dimensional drawings or artwork that create the illusion of three-dimensions through the use of shading and perspective. The term 2-D artwork also may be used to describe two-dimensional artwork that has been applied to a useful article, such as designs reproduced on wallpaper, carpeting, floor tile, wrapping paper, clothing, textiles, lace, and other fabrics, or two-dimensional artwork that has been applied to a useful article, such as a chair, car, plate, or vase, provided that the artwork is physically or conceptually separable from the useful article. For a discussion of the practices and procedures for
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