Copyright Law Updates | New Federal Register Notices
December 17, 2007
Registration of Claims to Copyright-Renewals
Docket No. RM 2007–8, 37 CFR Part 202, 72 FR 61801, 11/1/2007
The Copyright Office has issued on November 1, 2007 a final rule that revises its rules covering applications for registration of claims for renewal term of copyrights. These regulations were issued in light of fact that since January 1, 2006, all applications for renewal “have necessarily related to works which are subject to automatic renewal and, thus, are already in their renewal terms, making impossible any 28th-year registration of claims to the renewal term.”
Together with these changes was the development of a revised application form for the registration of renewal claims. The revised Form RE, as well as the revised…
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