300-3
305
Noncopyrightable material. (cont'd)
305.05
Blank forms. (cont'd)
Office will register a work containing a certain minimum amount of original, creative expression, regardless of whether the work contains uncopyrightable elements designed for simple recordation of information. Thus, textual works, such as contracts, insurance policies, and the like, and bank checks containing pictorial authorship, may be registrable if they contain a sufficient amount of original literary or artistic expression.
305.06
Format or layout. Copyright does not protect either the general format or layout, or the idea expressed by either of these.
305.07
Book design. Book designs may include choice of style and size of typeface, leading (space between lines of type), placement of folio (page numbers), arrangement of type on pages, and placement, spacing, and juxtaposition of text and illustrative matter—in short, all the physical and visual at tributes of a book. After having issued a notice of proposed rulemaking and having held a hearing, the Copyright Office decided not to change its long-standing practice of not registering claims to copyright in book design. The Office concluded that "the arrangement, spacing, or juxtaposition of text matter which is involved in book design falls within the realm of uncopyrightable ideas or concepts." See 46 Fed. Reg. 30651 (1981).
305.08
Limits on copyrightability. Certain categories of nondramatic literary works are not copyrightable, even though they may contain a substantial amount of textual material. They include the following:
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