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Application received after the renewal year. (cont'd)
Examples: (cont'd)
Original registration. Except as provided in section 1309.01 below, copyright in a work will not be registered for a renewal term unless an original registration for the work has been made in the Copyright Office. However, the original and renewal claims may be submitted simultaneously, although the renewal claim will be processed only after a registration number has been assigned to the application for the original term. Generally, in examining such applications for first-term registration, the Copyright Office will apply the practices existing at the time the work was originally published in determining registrability. The current application forms and registration fees will be required.
NOTE: The Copyright Office may register claims to renewal even though it might not under its present policies register the original claim.
Exception to requirement for original registration. An original registration in the Copyright Office is not a condition precedent for renewal registration in the case of a work in which U.S. copyright subsists by virtue of section 9(c) of title 17, U.S.C., in effect on December 31, 1977, (which implemented the Universal Copyright Convention), provided, how ever, that the application for renewal registration is accompanied by: