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1201
Background information. (cont'd)
1201.03
Extension of ad interim copyright to full term. The Act of 1909, as amended, provided for the extension of ad interim copyrights to full term if both of the following two conditions were met:
1)
a U.S. edition was produced in compliance with the manufacturing requirements and published with the required statutory copyright notice in the United States within a five-year period computed from the date of first publication abroad, and
2)
the claim in the U.S. edition was registered in the Copyright Office.,
If registration of the u.s. edition was sought after expiration of the five-year period, the Copyright Office would register the claim under the rule of doubt, if that u.s. edition had been manufactured and published within the five-year ad interim term. See Compendium I, Chapter 8, topic 8.4.6.II.b.
1201.04
Registration of U.S. edition optional in certain cases. For works manufactured and first published outside the United States after December 31, 1972, where ad interim registration was made and a U.S. edition, substantially
identical with that first published abroad, was manufactured and published with notice within the five-year term, a new registration is not required to extend the copyright to the fullterm. See section 107 of the Transitional and Supplementary Provisions of the current Act. If, however, the applicant desires to place on record the facts concerning the U.S. manufactured edition, the Copyright Office will not refuse regitration.1201.05
Manufacture of U.S. edition not required in certain cases. Manufacture of a U.S. edition
is not required for works in which ad interim copyright was subsisting or was capable of
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