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, Third Edition If the work contains an appreciable amount of unclaimable material, the must exclude that material from the  and limit the application to the new copyrightable material that the author contributed to the work. When completing an online application the applicant should provide this information on the Limitation of Claim screen; when completing a paper application, the applicant should provide this information in spaces 5 and/or 6(a) and 6(b) of the application.

For a discussion of the U.S. Copyright Office’s practices and procedures for limiting a claim to copyright, see.

618.3&emsp;The Relationship Between the Author Created / Limitation of Claim Fields in the Online Application and the Relationship between Spaces 2, 5, 6(a), and 6(b) in the Paper Application

As a general rule, a to copyright is defined by the information provided in the Author Created field (in the case of an online application) or in the Nature of Authorship space (in the case of a paper application). Therefore, all of the material that the  intends to register should be identified in these fields/spaces.

When an applicant excludes material from the claim and limits the application to the new copyrightable material that the author contributed to the work, the claim to copyright is defined by the information provided in the New Material Included field of the online application or the information provided in space 6(b) of the paper application as modified by the material excluded field/space. Therefore, all of the new copyrightable material that the applicant intends to register should be described in the New Material Included field or in space 6(b), as applicable.

618.4&emsp;Completing the Application: Author Created / Nature of Authorship

This Section provides guidance on completing the Author Created field in the online application and the Nature of Authorship space in the paper application. For guidance on completing an application to register a, a , or a , see , , and. For guidance on completing an application to register specific types of, , and visual art works, see , , and.

618.4(A)&emsp;The Online Application: Author Created Field

When completing an online application, the should identify the authorship that the applicant intends to register on the Authors screen by checking one or more of the boxes in the Author Created field that accurately describe the authorship that is owned by the. (When completing a Single Application the applicant should provide this information on the Author screen in the Author Created field.)

The options for each type of work are listed below:

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 * Text
 * Photograph(s)
 * Artwork