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1201

Background information. (cont'd)

1201.05

Manufacture of U.S. edition not required in certain cases. (cont'd)

being secured on December 31, 1977. See section 107, Transitional and Supplementary Provisions of the current Act. However, where a U.S. edition, substantially identical with that first published outside of the United States, was manufactured and published within the five-year term, the Copyright Office will not refuse registration.

1201.06

Ad interim registration made but no U.S. edition. With respect to works manufactured and first published abroad before December 31, 1972, for which ad interim registration was made but no U.S. edition was manufactured

and published within the five-year ad interim term, no new registration is possible.

1201.07

No ad interim registration made. Any English-language book or periodical published before July 1, 1977, which was subject to the manufacturing requirements of the Act of 1909, as amended, for which ad interim registration

was not made, cannot now be registered.

1202

Basic requirements under current Act. Copies of certain works consisting preponderantly of non­ dramatic literary material in the English language must be manufactured in the United States or Canada in order to satisfy the manufacturing requirements of the current Act. See 17 U.S.C. 601.

1202.01

Two-thousand copy limit. If such a work has been manufactured outside the United States or Canada, importation into the United States is limited to no more than 2,000 such copies upon issuance of an Import statement by the Copyright Office.

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