1200-9
1210
Manufacturing processes covered. (cont'd)
1210.03
Printing and binding. If there is a final process of producing multiple copies and any binding of the copies, this must be performed in the United States or Canada.
1211
Manufacturing processes not covered. Photocopying is not considered a "printing process." Thus, if copies have been produced by photocopying, such reproduction is exempt from the manufacturing requirements. Copies produced in multiples by typewriter, by mimeograph, or by hand are also not covered by the manufacturing requirements. Copies reproduced in raised characters for the use of the blind are exempt from the manufacturing requirements. See 17 U.S.C. 601(b)(5).
1212
Entry under an Import Statement. In any case where issuance of an Import Statement is appropriate, importation of 2,000 copies is permitted, irrespective of the time the work may have been published, and irrespective of whether registration was made under the current Act or under the Act of 1909, as amended. Where the copyright owner of a work in which ad interim copyright was subsisting on December 31, 1977, has already imported the 1,500 copies allowed under the Act of 1909, a new Import Statement will be issued upon request, permitting importation of an additional 500 copies.
Examples
1)
For a work by a U.S. author, published and registered in 1970 as ad interim, where no U.S. edition was manufactured within five years as required by the Act of 1909, as amended, no new Import Statement can be issued because ad interim copyright was not subsisting on December 31, 1977.
2)
For a work manufactured in the United States and registered in Class A in 1975 for which no Import Statement has been issued, an Import Statement could be issued on request, permitting importation of 2,000 copies, if the work were reprinted outside of the United States or Canada.
[1984]
