Although the Office has the authority to cancel a basic registration if these requirements are not met, it may decline to cancel a basic registration if the application for supplementary registration was submitted by or on behalf of any party other than the claimant named in the basic registration.
For a discussion of the practices and procedures for cancelling a basic registration, see Section 1806.
If the application to correct or amplify the registration record is approved, the U.S. Copyright Office will issue a supplementary registration to the author, claimant, or exclusive licensee named in space F of the application. However, the Office will not notify any other party that a supplementary registration has been made, even if they are listed in the certificate of registration for the basic registration.
The Office will prepare a certificate of supplementary registration that contains pertinent information from the application. The certificate of supplementary registration will be mailed to the address that the applicant provided in space G of the application. In addition, the Office will create a public record for the supplementary registration that identifies and describes the changes or revisions that have been made to the registration record.
The Office will assign a separate registration number to the supplementary registration. In most cases, this number will begin with the same prefix that appears in the basic registration.
1802.11 Cross-Referencing the Records for a Basic Registration and a Supplementary
Registration
As discussed in Section 1802.1, the U.S. Copyright Office will place a note in the public record for the supplementary registration that cross-references the registration number and the year of registration for the basic registration, provided that the application for supplementary registration was submitted by or on behalf of the copyright claimant named in the basic registration. In addition, the Office will place a note in the public record for the basic registration that cross-references the registration number and the effective date of registration for the supplementary registration. 37 C.F.R. § 201.5(b)(1) n.l.
If the application was submitted by or on behalf of any other party, the Office will create a public record for the supplementary registration. However, the Office will not cross- reference that record with the public record for the basic registration.
When the U.S. Copyright Office issues a certificate of supplementary registration, the Office assigns an effective date of registration for that registration. The effective date of registration is the day on which an acceptable application and filing fee, which are later determined by the Register of Copyrights or by a court of competent jurisdiction to be
1802.10
Certificate of Supplementary Registration
1802.12
Effective Date of Supplementary Registration
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