Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, Third Edition
Examples:
- An application is submitted for a work consisting solely of text. The applicant has checked all of the boxes that appear in the Author Created field. The registration specialist will communicate with the applicant to request permission to limit the claim to “text” and to remove the other terms from the registration record.
- An application is submitted for a short story naming Ananeka Kanihl as the author of “text” and “illustrations,” but the copy only contains text. The registration specialist will communicate with the applicant to request permission to limit the claim to text and to remove the reference to illustrations.
If the deposit copy appears to be incomplete, the specialist will communicate with the applicant.
Examples:
- An application is submitted for a work titled The Annunaki. In the Author Created field the applicant asserts a claim in the “entire motion picture.” The deposit copy consists of a written description, such as a screenplay or synopsis. The registration specialist will communicate with the applicant to determine whether the applicant is attempting to register the description alone or if the claim extends to a motion picture, and if the latter, whether a complete copy of the work has been submitted.
- An application is submitted for a twenty-page catalog. In the Author Created field the applicant asserts a claim to copyright in the “text, 2-dimensional artwork.” The deposit copy contains text, but no artwork. The pages on the copy are numbered, but page numbers twelve and thirteen have not been submitted. The registration specialist will communicate with the applicant to determine if a complete copy of the work has been submitted.
- An application is submitted for a computer program. In the Nature of Authorship space the applicant asserts a claim to copyright in “computer program and screen displays.” The deposit copy contains C++ source code, but no screen displays. The registration specialist will communicate with the applicant and explain that registration for this computer program covers any copyrightable screen displays generated by the program. Because the applicant expressly asserted a claim in screen displays, the specialist will ask the applicant to submit a copy of the screen displays for examination, or in the alternative, the specialist will ask for permission to remove “screen displays” from the application.
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