Applicants are encouraged to provide a title for each work that is submitted for registration. If a work is known by a particular title, interested parties likely will use that title to search for the work, and it may be extremely difficult to find a particular work if the applicant fails to provide that information in the application.
The total number of characters that may be provided in the Contents Title field is limited. Applicants are strongly encouraged to provide one title in the field, then click the Save button, and then repeat this process in order to prevent loss of data due to space limitations.
When completing a paper application, the applicant should provide the title for the unit of publication and/or the title(s) of the works contained therein in space 1 of the application. If additional space is needed, the applicant may provide the titles using Form CON. If the applicant provides this information in the application, the title of each work may be included in the certificate of registration and the online public record unless the applicant provides a substantial number of titles on Form CON.
In all cases, the titles of the works contained within the unit of publication should be listed in the application in the same order that they appear in the deposit copies.
For additional guidance in completing the title field/space of the application, see Chapter 600, Sections 610.2 and 610.4.
1107.4(D) Publication / Completion
When registering a number of works with the unit of publication option, all of the works submitted for registration must be packaged or physically bundled together in a single unit and first distributed to the public as a unit. See Section 1107.2.
When completing an online application, the applicant will be asked to provide the date of publication on the Publication/Completion screen. Specifically, the applicant should select "yes" in the drop down menu marked "Has this work been published?" In the field marked "Date of First Publication," the applicant should provide the specific month, day, and year that the unit was distributed to the public for the first time. If the applicant indicates that the works have been published, but fails to provide the specific month, day, and year that publication occurred, the application will not be accepted by the electronic registration system.
When completing a paper application, the applicant should enter the month, day, and year of first publication on space 3(b] under the heading "Date and Nation of First Publication of This Particular Work."
When completing an online application, the applicant should identify the year that the component works were completed on the Publication/Completion screen in the field marked Year of Completion (Year of Creation]. When completing a paper application, the applicant should identify the year that the author completed the component works on space 3 (a] under the heading "Year in which creation of this work was completed." If the component works were created over a period of thirteen months or more, the
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