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706
Submission of material. In order to consider registration of a claim to copyright, the Copyright Office should receive a completed application form together with the required fee and deposit. The application should contain the required information and be duly certified. Incomplete, inaccurate, or illegible applications may delay the registration process.
707
Quality and legibility of application forms. Application forms accepted for registration become permanent parts of the official records of the Copyright Office and must meet archival standards and be legible.
707.01
Only application forms issued by the Copyright Off1ce may be used. Copyright Office forms meet strict archival standards: therefore, only forms issued by the Office may be used to make registration. Photocopies or other reproductions of Copyright Office forms cannot be accepted for registration.
707.02
Information given on the application form should be typewritten or legibly printed in black ink. Information required by the forms must be legible and should be typewritten or printed in black ink. Applicants who anticipate filing a large number of applications may place certain repetitive information on the application forms they submit by using a printing process. Carbons of applications or applications completed in pencil are generally not acceptable.
708
Selection of most appropriate application form. The appropriate form is generally determined by the nature of the authorship in which copyright is claimed. For most works, one form will clearly be the most appropriate.
708.01
Nature of authorship determinative. The nature of the authorship determines which application form should be used for registration rather than the material object in which the work is embodied.
Example:
A filmstrip or set of slides containing only text should be registered on Form TX, not on Form PA.
[1984]
