NOTE: The New Material Included field should be completed only if material has been excluded from the claim in the Material Excluded field. Likewise, space 6(b) of the paper application should be completed only if material has been excluded from the claim in space 6(a].
As a general rule, the information that the applicant provides in the New Material Included field should be identical to the information that the applicant provides in the Author Created field. Likewise, the information that the applicant provides in space 6(a] of the paper application should be identical to the information that that the applicant provides in space 2 under the heading marked Nature of Authorship.
The applicant should only identify the new material created by the author(s) named in the application that is owned by the copyright claimant. The applicant should not mention any material that is not owned by the claimant, material that will not be submitted for registration, or material that does not appear in the deposit copy(ies). If there is anything in the registration material that casts doubt on the accuracy of the claim, the registration specialist may communicate with the applicant.
Example:
• Alexander Temple writes a blog called "Don't Tread On Me." The blog contains musings about politics, together with photographs created by the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and other federal government agencies. Alexander submits an online application to along with printouts from his blog. In the application, Alexander asserts a claim in his "website," but he fails to complete the Limitation of Claim screen. The registration specialist will ask the applicant to describe the new material that he contributed to this site by checking the boxes marked "text" and "compilation" in the Author Created field and the New Material Included field. The photographs appear to be in the public domain, because they were created by employees of the U.S. government. Therefore, the specialist will ask the applicant to exclude that material from the claim by checking the box marked "photographs" in the Material Excluded field.
1010 Deposit Requirements for Website Content
This Section provides basic information concerning the deposit requirements for registering a website or website content. For detailed information concerning these requirements, see Chapter 1500.
For information concerning mandatory deposit, see Section 1010.7.
1010.1 Deposit Requirements for Registration
To register a website or website content, the applicant must submit a deposit containing the copyrightable content that is claimed in the application.
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