• The Office issued a renewal registration for a work registered or first published in the United States before December 31, 1963, but the renewal application was submitted before or after the statutory time limit.
• The application and the deposit copy(ies) do not match each other, and the copy(ies) described in the application cannot be located elsewhere in the Office or the Library of Congress.
• The work was published in violation of the manufacturing provisions of the copyright law as it existed before July 1, 1986.
See 37 C.F.R. § 201.7(c)(4)(i)-(xi).
1806.4(E) Voluntary Cancellation
As a general rule, the decision to cancel a registration will be made solely by the U.S. Copyright Office acting on its own initiative. However, the Office may consider a request to cancel a registration, provided that the request is made by the copyright claimant named in the registration record or the claimant's duly authorized agent and provided that the following requirements have been met:
• Content of the request: The request should identify the registration that will be surrendered for cancellation, including the author(s), title(s), claimant(s), and registration number. The request should provide the full name of the individual who signed the request and should state that that party is the claimant named in
the certificate of registration or the claimant's duly authorized agent. The request should be legible and capable of being imaged or otherwise reproduced by the technology employed by the Office at the time of its submission.
• justification for the request: The request should demonstrate that the registration should be cancelled because the work was registered in the wrong class, because the filing fee has not been paid, because the work is uncopyrightable, or because there is a substantive defect in the registration.
• Signature: The request should be signed by the claimant named in the certificate of registration or the claimant's duly authorized agent. The request should contain the actual handwritten signature(s) of the person or persons who executed the request or a legible photocopy or other facsimile of the signature together with a
sworn certification that satisfies the requirements set forth in 37 C.F.R. § 201.4(c)(1) of the regulations.
The request should be sent to the following address:
U.S. Copyright Office RAC Division P.O. Box 71380 Washington, DC 20024-1380
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