acceptable for supplementary registration, have all been received in the Office. See 17 U.S.C. § 410(d).
As a general rule, if the applicant makes a reasonable, good faith effort to complete the relevant spaces in Form CA and to identify the basic registration that needs to be corrected or amplified, the effective date of registration will be the date that the Office received the application, provided that the applicant paid the applicable filing fee as of that date.
The Office cannot issue an effective date of registration if the applicant submits an unacceptable form of payment, such as uncollectible checks, unsigned checks, postdated checks, mutilated checks, illegible checks, fees made payable in a foreign currency, or the like. If the Office issues a certificate of supplementary registration and if the payment for the filing fee is returned for insufficient funds or any other reason, the supplementary registration will be cancelled.
The effective date of registration for the basic registration and the effective date of registration for the supplementary registration will coexist with each other in the registration record. The Office maintains both records to allow courts to decide whether the changes made by the supplementary registration are material and whether those changes should or should not be deemed effective as of the date that the basic registration was made.
1803 New Application for a New Basic Registration
This Section discusses the practices and procedures for correcting or amplifying the information in a basic registration by filing a new application for a new basic registration.
As a general rule, the U.S. Copyright Office will issue only one basic registration to the same claimant for the same work, and a supplementary registration is the preferred method for correcting or amplifying the information in a basic registration. See Applications for Registration of Claim to Copyright under Revised Copyright Act, 42 Fed. Reg. 48,944, 48,945 (Sept. 26, 1977).
As discussed in Section 1802.7, there are some cases where a supplementary registration cannot be used to correct or amplify the information in a basic registration. In those cases, a new application for a new basic registration may be used to correct an error or omission in a basic registration, instead of filing an application for a supplementary registration.
• Claimant issues: If the Office issued a basic registration that correctly identifies the author of the work and correctly names a different individual or legal entity as the copyright claimant, the author may file an application for a new basic registration naming himself or herself as both the author and the copyright claimant for that work. See 37 C.F.R. § 202.3(b)(ll)(ii).
• Publication issues: Basic registration for an unpublished work that is subsequently published. If the Office issued a basic registration for an unpublished work that
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