1300-26
1317
Renewal claimants: proprietors. (cont'd)
1317.06
Corporate body. (cont'd)
1317.06(c)
Corporate body: special circumstances. In cases other than those listed in section l3l7.06(b) above, registration on this basis will be strongly discouraged and will be made only when the applicant indicates that there were special circumstances under which the claim might conceivably be said to apply.
Examples:
1)
Works to which the stockholders of a corporation have contributed indistinguishable parts.
2)
Works written by an official or major stockholder in a corporation, when the works were written directly for the corporation and the arrangement did not amount to employment for hire.
3)
Works written or created by members of a religious order or similar organization, when the individual authors never had a personal property right in the works.
4)
Motion pictures, when the applicant asserts that the work was produced under special circumstances and was not copyrighted by an employer for whom the work was made for hire.
1317.07
Employer in the case of a work made for hire. The proprietor of the copyright shall be entitled to claim renewal in works originally copyrighted by an employer for whom they were made for hire. See 17 U.S.C. 304.
[1984]
