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1504
Supplementary registrations: procedures used for correcting and amplifying Copyright Office records. (cont'd)
1504.08
Supplementary registrations: their effect. (cont'd)
1504.08(c)

Cross-referencing. If the person who, or on whose behalf, an application for supplementary registration is submitted is the same as the person identified as the copyright claimant in the basic registra­tion, the Copyright Office will place a note referring to the supplementary registration on its records of the basic registration. See 37 C.F.R. 201.5(b)(1), note 3. The Office will follow the same practice with respect to an application for supplementary registration submitted by the duly authorized agent or successor in interest of the copyright claimant in the basic registration.

NOTE: Successors in interest, for this purpose, are those who derive their title from the claimant, as for example, an assignee.

1505
Recordation of documents: procedures used for correcting and amplifying Copyright Office records. In certain cases a document may be recorded either to correct or to amplify information given in a basic registration. Such a document may be recorded at any time. See also Chapter 1600: RECORDATION OF TRANSFERS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO A COPYRIGHT.
1505.01
Recordation of documents: corrections or amplifications of completed registrations. Ordinarily, when a person who is entitled to file an application for supplementary registration wishes to correct or amplify a copy­ right registration, an application for supple­mentary registration should be submitted. See section 1504.07 above. However, if an appli­cation for supplementary registration is not appropriate, or if the application for supple­mentary registration is appropriate but the
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