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04F work classifications

Where to Look in the Law

1909 Act: §5
1947 Act: §5
1976 Act: §102(a)

Cases Summarized in Other Sections

Bouvé, Register of Copyrights vs Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (launch this) had the Register of Copyrights objecting that a registration had been made for a purported book which the Register believed should have been classified as separate issues of a serial.

Seltzer vs Sunbrock (launch this) had the court deciding that a pamplet describing the rules of a game could not be classified as a dramatic work.

 

 

 

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