Year date in the copyright notice. (cont'd)
Dispersed notice: year date. (cont'd)
only one appearing on the same page as the other elements. Also, an appropriate year date prominently displayed elsewhere than on the same page as the other elements is acceptable, if it can reasonably be considered part of the notice. Examples of acceptable year dates include the year date in the Library of Congress Catalog Card Number and the year in the issue date on a periodical. The presence of intervening matter need not necessarily preclude considering a year date a part of the notice. In those cases where a year date is required and no year date can be reasonably identified as part of the notice, the work will be considered to have been published without notice and will be governed by 17 U.S.C. 405. See section 1008 of this chapter; see also section 1011.01 concerning separated names.
More than one year date in notice. A notice may sometimes contain, in addition to the year date of first publication of the version being registered, earlier year dates indicating an earlier unpublished registration, or the presence of previously published matter in the work or they might signify nothing. Where there is more than one year date in the notice and none of them is the year date of first publication, the Copyright Office will disregard, for purposes of determining the adequacy of the notice, all but the most recent date.
Name in copyright notice. As a general rule the copyright notice for both copies and phonorecords of sound recordings must include the name of the owner of copyright in the work, or an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of the owner. 17 U.S.C. 401(b)(3) and 402(b)(3). Ordinarily, the Copyright Office will not question a name appearing as part of the notice, if it appears sufficient to identify the owner of copyright.
