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(cont'd) cylinders arranged in a plain box according to size and color, Practice: We will refuse a reg­istration in Class G based solely upon the unassembled toy, even though its component parts or pieces are potentially capable of being arranged in copyright­ able shapes and forms. The general idea of the toy is, of course, uncopyrightable, regard­less of its novelty or uniqueness.

A work described as a "mobile" consists of nine pieces of trans­lucent colored glass each of which is suspended by wire from an overhead rack designed to rotate about a pivot in a hori­zontal plane, The suspension wires vary in length and no two pieces of glass share the same shape or outline, Registration is sought in Class G on the basis of the overall effect pro­ duced by the play of light upon the suspended glass components of a work which the applicant

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