"Sound Recording" (or change the application from a Form PA to a Form SR) without communicating with the applicant.
For more information on sound recording authorship, see Section 803.
802.9(B) Title of Work
The applicant should give the title of the work being registered. When registering a musical work with the online application, the applicant should follow these guidelines:
• Registering a single song contained on an album: Give the individual song title as the "Title of work being registered" and give the album title as the "Title of larger work."
• Registering an entire album: Give the album title as the "Title of work being registered" and enter each song title separately as a "Contents title" if the claimant is the author of or owns all rights in each of the songs.
• Registering the music contained in a motion picture: Give the songtitle(s) as the "Title(s) of work being registered" and give the motion picture title as the "Title of larger work."
For additional guidance in completing this portion of the application, see Chapter 600, Section 610.
802.9(C) Year of Completion
The applicant must give the year of completion date for the work submitted. If the applicant intends to register a derivative work, the applicant must give the year that the derivative version was completed (not the year the original work was completed).
For additional guidance in completing this portion of the application, see Chapter 600, Section 611.
802.9(D) The Author Created Field and the Nature of Authorship Space
When completing an online application, the applicant should identify the copyrightable authorship that the applicant intends to register on the Authors screen in the field marked Author Created. When completing a paper application, the applicant should provide this information on space 2 of the application under the heading Nature of Authorship.
In all cases, the applicant should clearly and accurately describe the authorship that each author contributed and should only refer to the material submitted in the deposit copy(ies). When completing an online application, the applicant may use one or more of the following terms:
• Music
• Lyrics
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