1300-30
1318
Joint renewal claimants. (cont'd)
1318.04
Adverse claims: conflicts concerning the author and the author's successors. (cont'd)
2)
When a renewal claim was registered in the name of the author, and the widow (widower) now claims, the Copyright Office will request the date of the author's death. If the date is earlier than that on which the first application was filed , registration will be made without further correspondence. If the author was living when registration was made in the author's name,the widow's (widower's) claim may also be registered as a doubtful case, despite the principle that renewal rights vest on the date of a valid registration.
1318.05
Adverse claims: conflicts concerning proprietors, authors, and authors' successors.
1)
When a renewal claim was registered in the name of "a proprietor of copyright in a work made for hire," and a new application is submitted in the name of the individual author, the Copyright Office will request information concerning the circumstances under which the work was written.
2)
When a renewal claim was registered in the name of an individual author, and a new application is submitted as "proprietor of copyright in a work made for hire,"the Copyright Office will request information concerning the circumstances under which the work was written.
3)
When a renewal claim was registered in the name of one of several authors, and a new renewal application is submitted as "proprietor of copyright in a work made for hire" without restricting the claim to the work of a particular author or authors, the Copyright Office will ask whether the claim covers the material written by the person
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