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. (cont'd) Examples: (cont'd)

. The Copyright Office will generally accept w1thout question the date of first publica­tion given by the applicant. Although the Office may offer general guidelines concerning the selec­tion of a date, the final choice is ordinarily left to the applicant. The Office will generally decline to accept the date given only if a state­ment made by the applicant clearly shows that first publication did not occur on that date. The Office will correspond with the applicant if it has information inconsistent with the statement used by the applicant as the basis for the date given.

[1984]