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Deposit for registration: identifying material. (cont'd)

324.05

Special relief. (cont'd)

324.05(a)

Trade secrets and special relief. When a computer program contains trade se­crets or other confidential material that the applicant is unwilling to dis­close by depositing the first and last 25 pages in source code, the Copyright Office is willing to consider special relief requests enabling the applicant to deposit less than or other than the usual 50 pages of source code. Special relief requests for the following three deposit options are presently being granted upon receipt of the applicant's written request for special relief:

1)

First and last 25 pages of source code with some portions blocked out, provided that the blocked-out portions are proportionately less than the material still remaining.

2)

At least the first and last ten pages of source code alone (with no blocked-out portions).

3)

First and last 25 pages of object code plus any ten or more consecu­tive pages of source code (with no blocked-out portions).

324.06

Specific deposit examples. The following examples concern various deposit situations.

1)

Source code and object code with one application. Where the first and last 25 pages each of source code and object code (total of 100 pages) are deposited with one application on Form TX for a single computer program, the registra­tion is made using the combined source code and object code identifying mate­rial.

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