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 4- UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT OFFICE REGtTLATIONS

Rules and Regulations for the Registration of Claims to Copyright

1. Copyright under the act of Congress entitled: "An Copyright act to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copy- under act right," approved March 4, 1909, is ordinarily secured by printing and publishing a copyrightable work with a no- tice of claim in the form prescribed by the statute. Regis- tration can only be made after such publication, but the statute expressly provides, in certain cases, for registration

of manuscript works.

WHO MAY secure COPYRIGHT

2. The persons entitled by the act to copyright protec- Persons tion for their works are : entitled to

(i) The author of the work, if he is: copyright

(a) A citizen of the United States, or

(&) A resident alien domiciled in the United States at the time of the first publication of his work, or

(c) A citizen or subject of any country which grants either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substan- tially the same basis as to its own citizens. The existence of reciprocal copyright conditions is determined by presi- dential proclamation.

(2) The proprietor of a work. The word " proprietor " is here used to indicate a person who derives his title to the work from the author. If the author of the work should be a person who could not himself claim the benefit of the copyright act, the proprietor can not claim it.

(3) The executors, administrators or assigns of the above- mentioned author or proprietor.

3. After the publication of any work entitled to copy- Copyright right, the claimant of copyright should register this claim registration in the Copyright Office. An action for infringement of