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300-15 . (cont'd) will refuse to register the claim, since a de­ceased person cannot be a copyright claimant. Where the deceased person is named as the only author and another person or an organization is named as claimant, the Office will also refuse registration, since any transfer from the deceased author to the claimant could not ful­fill the requirement of the copyright law that transfers of copyright ownership be in writing and signed by the transferor.

[1984]