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497
Compilations. (cont'd)
497.01
Registrable compilations. (cont'd)
Examples:
1)
"The Greatest Country & Western Recordings of 1975"
2)
"The Greatest Recordings of the Nine Beethoven Symphonies" (a recording of the nine Beethoven symphonies, each performed by a different orchestra and conductor)
497.02
Non-registrable compilations. A mere republication together of several previously released or registered sound recordings, where no appreciable degree of original authorship was involved in putting the sound recordings together, does not constitute a registrable compilation.
Examples:
1)
Combination of three previously released recordings. The Copyright Office will refuse a claim in compilation, since the compilation of only three selections does not represent enough authorship to support such a claim.
2)
A well-known conductor's recordings of the Nine Beethoven Symphonies with the same orchestra, where all nine symphonies have been previously released separately. The Copyright Office will refuse to register the claim in compilation. Merely grouping together a single conductor's recordings of the nine Beethoven symphonies with the same orchestra does not represent enough original authorship to support a claim.
[1984]
