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325
Completing the application form. (cont'd)
325.02
Nature of authorship and extent of claim. (cont'd)
325.02(b)
Unclear elements. The following terms as commonly used with reference to computer software mayor may not represent copyrightable authorship. Therefore, the Copyright Office will generally question an application describing the claim or the authorship in these terms:
- adaptation or translation (where program appears to have been adapted merely to run on different hardware)
- compilation
- debugging
- enhancements
- error corrections
- features
- patching
- translation (listed alone)
325.02(c)
Noncopyrightable elements. Where the Copyright Office has determined that the claim is based only on the following, registration will be refused:
- algorithm (or text of algorithm)
- analysis
- cassette
- chip
- disk
- encrypting
- EPROM
- firmware
- formatting
- functions
- language (alone)
- logic
- mnemonics
- printout
- PROM
- ROM
- software methodology
- system
- system design(er)
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