• Any basic registration issued on or after January 1, 1978 (including group registrations).
• A renewal registration for a work that was registered or first published on or before December 31, 1977.
See 37 C.F.R. § 201.5(a)(1)(f). A supplementary registration may be used to correct or amplify the information in one basic registration or one renewal registration. The U.S. Copyright Office will not issue a supplementary registration that attempts to correct or amplify the information set forth in multiple registrations. However, there is no limit on the number of supplementary registrations that may be issued and cross-referenced with a basic registration or a renewal registration.
1802.4 Records That Cannot Be Corrected or Amplified with a Supplementary Registration
A supplementary registration cannot be used to correct or amplify the following types of records:
Pending applications: The U.S. Copyright Office will not issue a supplementary registration to correct or amplify the information in a pending application. If the applicant discovers an error or omission in a pending application, the applicant should not file an application for supplementary registration. Instead, the applicant should contact the Office in writing (www.copyright.gov/help/index.html#general), or if the applicant receives a communication from a registration specialist concerning a pending application, the applicant should notify the specialist if the application is incorrect or incomplete.
Applications that have been withdrawn or rejected: The Office will not issue a supplementary registration for an application that has been withdrawn by the applicant or rejected by the Office.
The online public record: The Office will not issue a supplementary registration to correct an error that appears only in the online public record for a particular registration. If there is an error in the online public record that does not appear in the certificate of registration, the author, the claimant, or one of the other parties listed in Section 1802.1 should contact the Office in writing
(www.copyright.gov/help/general-form.html), instead of filing an application for supplementary registration. This is known as an error correction request. If the Office receives an application for a supplementary registration to correct a cataloging error made by the Office that appears only in the online public record, the Office will attempt to correct the error and will refund the filing fee without issuing a supplementary registration.
NOTE: Some entries in the online public record cannot be changed due to the current limitations of the electronic registration system. For example, the system cannot accept diacritical marks used in Spanish, French, German, or other foreign languages, such as c, a, n, or ii.
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