the registration specialist will communicate with the applicant and request that the authorship be described as "audiovisual material" rather than "entire motion picture."
Examples:
• Michael Williams submits an application to register his claim in a banner advertisement that he created for a local activist organization. The authorship is described as "audiovisual material." The deposit consists of short, textual phrases that alternate and zoom in and out with a mouse click. Michael's original song plays in the background. The claim to copyright in this work will be accepted because the work, as a whole, contains a sufficient amount of copyrightable authorship.
• Mika Roberts submits an application to register her claim in a banner advertisement that she created for a local religious organization. The ad consists of a line of scrolling continuous text that is a long quote from the Bible. In the background, a public domain religious hymn plays. The registration specialist will refuse to register this claim. Although there is a series of images, the work contains an insufficient amount of original material to support a copyright claim.
807.7(E) Slide Presentations
A slide presentation is a series of stills on a computer screen, videodisc, or videotape intended to be viewed as a single cohesive work, such as a PowerPoint presentation. If the work contains preexisting visual or aural material, that material should be identified and excluded from the claim, and the claim should be limited to the new copyrightable authorship.
807.8 Application Tips for Audiovisual Works
This Section provides basic information on how to complete the online and paper applications for an audiovisual work, as well as terms to use and terms to avoid when describing the authorship in such works.
For detailed information on how to complete an application, see Chapter 600.
807.8(A) Type of Work
When registering a claim in an audiovisual work using an online application,
the applicant should select "Motion Picture / AV Work" as the Type of Work. When using
a paper application, the applicant should use Form PA.
Many works that contain audiovisual material also contain literary and visual arts authorship, and sometimes it is difficult to determine which type of work should be specified in the application. This is particularly true for CD-ROMs, multimedia works, and website content. As a general rule, the applicant should select the type of work that is appropriate for the predominant form of authorship in the works. For example, a
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