The applicant may include up to fifteen photographs on a single sheet of Form GR/PPh/CON. If the group contains more than fifteen photographs, the applicant should complete and submit additional sheets. The applicant may submit up to fifty sheets of Form GR/PPh/CON with each application. Thus, if the applicant uses this form, the group must contain no more than 750 photographs.
See generally Registration of Claims to Copyright, Group Registration of Published Photographs, 70 Fed. Reg. 15,587 [Mar. 28, 2005).
1116.6(B)(1) Space A: Identification of Author and Claimant
In space A of Form GR/PPh/CON, the applicant should provide the name of the individual who created the photographs and the name of the claimant who owns the copyright in those photographs. The names provided in these spaces should be identical to the names that the applicant provided in spaces 2 (a] and 4 of Form VA.
1116.6(B)(2) Spaces B & C: Copyright Registration for a Group of Published Photographs
In space B of Form GR/PPh/CON, the applicant should provide a title for each photograph in the group. The Office will accept a title consisting solely of numbers and/or letters, such as 1812 orTHX-1138. See Chapter 600, Section 610.6(C). However, the applicant should not provide "Untitled," "No Title," or the like, because interested parties typically search for works by title and it may be impossible to locate a photograph in the record if no title has been provided.
The applicant should provide the date of first publication for each photograph (including the month, day, and year) and the name of the country where each photograph was first published. The applicant should provide a separate entry for each photograph, even if multiple photographs were published on the same date. For guidance in completing this portion of the application, see Chapter 600, Sections 612 and 617.
The applicant may provide a brief description of each photograph in the space marked Description of Photograph. For example, if the photograph was published in a periodical, the applicant may provide the title of the periodical where the photograph was published, along with the volume, number, and issue date (if any) for that periodical and the page number(s) (if any) where the photograph appeared.
As discussed in Section 1116.1, all the contributions must be published within a twelve- month period [e.g., March 25, 2003 through March 24, 2004). Ideally, the photographs should be listed in Form GR/PPh/CON in chronological order.
The photographs that are submitted to the Office should be labeled in such a way that each photograph can be cross-referenced with the information that appears in Form GR/PPh/CON. For example, the applicant may number a particular entry using the box marked "number" and then write that number on the back of the corresponding photograph (if the applicant submits prints or slides) or incorporate that number into the file name for the corresponding photograph (if the applicant submits digital images).
For guidance in completing space C, see Chapter 600, Section 622.4.
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