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LITERARY WORKS
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Manuscripts
- Poetry
- Contributions to collective works
- Compilations of data or other literary subject
matter
- Dissertations
- Theses
- Reports
- Speeches
- Bound or looseleaf volumes
- Secure tests
- Pamphlets
- Brochures
- Textbooks
- Online works
- Reference works
- Directories
- Catalogs
- Advertising copy
- Single pages of text
- Tracts
- Games
- Automated databases
- Computer programs
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PERFORMING ARTS
- Musical works, including any accompanying
words
- Dramatic works, such as scripts, including
any accompanying music
- Pantomimes and choreographic works
- Motion pictures and other audiovisual works
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SOUND RECORDINGS
Works that result from the fixation of a series
of musical, spoken, or other sounds, but not including
the sounds accompanying a motion picture or other
audiovisual work. Common examples include:
- recordings of music
- drama
- or lectures.
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SERIAL WORKS
- Periodicals
- Newspapers
- Magazines
- Bulletins
- Newsletters
- Annuals
- Journals
- Proceedings of societies
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VISUAL ARTS
- Advertisements
- Commercial prints, labels
- Artificial flowers and plants
- Artwork applied to clothing or to other useful
articles
- Bumper stickers, decals, stickers
- Cartographic works, such as maps, globes,
relief models
- Cartoons, comic strips
- Collages
- Dolls, toys
- Drawings, paintings, murals
- Enamel works
- Fabric, floor, and wallcovering designs
- Games, puzzles
- Greeting cards, postcards, stationery
- Holograms, computer and laser artwork
- Jewelry designs
- Models
- Mosaics
- Needlework and craft kits
- Original prints, such as engravings, etchings,
serigraphs, silk screen prints, woodblock prints
- Patterns for sewing, knitting, crochet, needlework
- Photographs, photomontages
- Posters
- Record jacket artwork or photography
- Relief and intaglio prints
- Reproductions, such as lithographs, collotypes
- Sculpture, such as carvings, ceramics, figurines,
maquettes, molds, relief sculptures
- Stained glass designs
- Stencils, cut-outs
- Technical drawings, architectural drawings
or plans, blueprints, diagrams, mechanical drawings
- Weaving designs, lace designs, tapestries.
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REGISTERING A COLLECTION OF UNPUBLISHED WORKS
The Copyright Office states:
" Under the following conditions, a work
may be registered in unpublished form as a "collection,"
with one application form and one fee:
- The elements of the collection are assembled
in an orderly form;
- The combined elements bear a single title
identifying the collection as a whole;
- The copyright claimant in all the elements
and in the collection as a whole is the same;
and
- All the elements are by the same author,
or, if they are by different authors, at least
one of the authors has contributed copyrightable
authorship to each element.
- An unpublished collection is not indexed
under the individual titles of the contents
but under the title of the collection".
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