1300-5
1305
Amendment after deadline. (cont'd)
Example:
A renewal application for a work by John Doe received during the 28th year of the first term identifies the renewal claimant as executrix, and the Copyright Office has reason to believe that the claimant is the surviving spouse, e.g.,the renewal application gives Mrs. John Doe, or the letter of transmittal indicates that she is the widow of the author. The Copyright Office will write for a new application setting forth the proper basis of claim, even though the statutory renewal period has expired in the interim.
1306
Date of receipt. The date of actual receipt in the Copyright Office determines the acceptability of a renewal application. See 37 C.F.R. 202.17(c).
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Receipt of a renewal application or fee elsewhere in the Library of Congress is regarded as equivalent to receipt in the Copyright Office.
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Mail misdirected or misdelivered to another Government agency, and delivered to the Copyright Office after the deadline will not permit registration.
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The date of deposit in the mails is not determinative for this purpose.
1306.01
Delay in delivery caused by disruption of postal or other services. In any case in which the Register of Copyrights determines, on the basis of such evidence as the Register may by regulation require, that a deposit, application, fee, or any other material to be delivered to the Copyright Office by a particular date, would have been received in the Copyright Office in due time except for a general disruption or suspension of postal or other transportation or communications services, the actual receipt of such material in the Copyright Office within one month after the date on which the Register determines that the disruption or suspension of
[1984]
