Chapter 1500
CORRECTIONS AND AMPLIFICATIONS OF COPYRIGHT OFFICE RECORDS; SUPPLEMENTARY REGISTRATIONS
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Applicability of this chapter. This chapter contains the practices to be followed in correcting or amplifying Copyright Office records these practices are general in nature, and each case should be dealt with on its own merits.
Moreover, this chapter does not deal with those errors in the record of a basic registration that the Office itself should have recognized at the time the registration was made in such cases the Office will take appropriate measures to rectify its error. See 37 C.F.R. 201.5(a)(2). Nor does this chapter deal with adverse contentions incident to registration. See section 108.06 of Chapter 100: BASIC POLICIES see also sections 1318.04 and 1318.05 of Chapter 1300: RENEWAL OF COPYRIGHT.1502
Basic registrations. Most such corrections and amplifications involve "basic registrations." A "basic registration means any of the following: (A) a copyright registration made under section 408 of the copyright law; (B) a renewal registration made under section 304 of the copyright law (C) a registration of claim to copyright made under the copyright law as it existed before January 1, 1978; or (D) a renewal registration made under the copyright law as it existed before January 1, 1978. See 37 C.F.R. 201.5(a)(1)(i). Once a basic registration has been made in the Copyright Office for a work, that basic registration will ordinarily stand as the fundamental copyright record on which other, later records relating to the particular work can be built.
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