Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, Third Edition
618.7(D) Examples for Asserting a Claim to Copyright in a Collective Work and / or a Contribution to a Collective Work
This Section provides representative examples for completing the Author Created field in an online application for a collective work and/or a contribution to a collective work.
Examples:
- Claim in collective work. An application is submitted for an anthology titled Fierce. Pride Publishers intends to register the authorship involved in selecting, coordinating, and arranging the text, photographs, artwork, and other contributions that appear in this anthology, but does not intend to register the contributions themselves.Type of work: Literary work.
Title of work being registered: Fierce.
Name of Author: Pride Publishers.
Author Created/Other: Compilation of text, photographs, and artwork.- Claim in collective work and contributions to the collective work. HealthNet, Inc., created the newest issue of a journal titled Fitness, which contains hundreds of articles. HealthNet’s employees created all of the content that appears in this journal. The company intends to register the compilation authorship involved in creating the journal as a whole, as well as the individual articles contained therein.Type of work: Single serial issue.
Title of work being registered: Fitness, Vol. 7, No. 77, Spring 2014.
Contents Title (Optional): [Titles of contributions created by HealthNet’s employees].
Name of Author: HealthNet, Inc.
Author Created: Compilation, Contribution(s) to a collective work (e.g., an article).”- Claim in collective work and contributions to the collective work. American Wildlife published a coffee table book titled Fauna that contains text, photographs, and maps. American Wildlife LLC selected and arranged all of the content that appears in the book. Most of the content was created by the company’s employees. The rest was created by a number of freelance writers; five of those individuals assigned the copyright in their contributions to the company by contract. American Wildlife submits an application to register the coffee table book as a whole and the content that was created by its employees. The company also intends to register the content that was created by the five freelance writers who assigned their copyrights to the company.
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