500-7
503
Registration requirements for drawings, paintings, other pictorial works, and sculpture. (cont'd)
503.02
Copyrightable pictorial, graphic and sculptural expression. (cont'd)
503.02(b)
Minimal standards: sculptural material (cont'd)
Examples: (cont'd)
2)
(cont'd)
Copyright Office for registration of a design for an unpublished sculptural work of art. His application Form VA is accompanied by one complete set of magnetized spheres, cubes, and cylinders arranged in a plain box according to size and color. Practice: We will refuse a registration in Class VA based solely upon the unassembled toy, even though its component parts or pieces are potentially capable of being arranged in copyrightable shapes and forms. The general idea of the toy is uncopyrightable, regardless of its novelty or uniqueness.
3)
A work described as a "mobile" consists of nine pieces of translucent colored glass each of which is suspended by wire from an over head rack designed to rotate about a pivot in a horizontal plane. The suspension wires vary in length and no two pieces of glass share the same shape or outline. Registration is sought in Class VA on the basis of the overall effect produced by the play of light upon the suspended glass components of a work which the applicant describes as "three-dimensional." No copyrightable authorship is claimed in the design of the individual pieces
[1984]
