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, Third Edition include board games, playing cards, playing pieces, and the like. See 37 C.F.R. §§§ [sic] 202.3(b)(1)(i), (iii).

When submitting an application to register a game, the should be limited to the text, artwork, and/or photographs that appear in the work (as applicable), the  should provide the name of the author who created that material, and the applicant should provide the name of the  who owns the copyright in that material. The Literary Division may accept a claim in “text” if the game contains a sufficient amount of written expression, or a claim in “artwork” and/or “photograph(s)” if the work contains a sufficient amount of pictorial or graphic expression. When completing an online application, this information should be provided in the Author Created field, and if applicable, also in the New Material Included field. When completing a paper application on, this information should be provided in space 2, and if applicable, also in space 6(b). For guidance on completing these portions of the application, see and.

A registration for a game covers all of the elements that appear in the work, regardless of whether the game has been registered as a literary work or a work of the visual arts. However, copyright does not protect the idea for a game, the name or title of a game, or the procedure, process, or method of operation for playing a game. Nor does copyright protect any idea, system, method, or device involved in developing or marketing a game. Once a game has been made available to the public, the copyright law cannot be used to prevent others from developing another game based on similar principles. Copyright protects only the particular expression that appears in the literary or artistic elements that the work may contain. See 17 U.S.C. § 102(b); 37 C.F.R. § 202.1.

If the game consists of separately fixed elements and works that were physically bundled together by the claimant for distribution to the public as a single, integrated unit, it may be possible to register them with one application and one if all the works were first published in that integrated unit and if the claimant owns the copyright in those works. For information concerning the option, see.

For a discussion of the practices and procedures for registering videogames, see. For a discussion of the practices and procedures for registering board games, see.

715&emsp;Genealogies

715.1&emsp;What Is a Genealogy?

A genealogy is a work that contains information about the history of a particular family. These types of works typically contain a substantial amount of factual information, such as the names of family members, dates of birth, marriage, death, and other significant events, as well as family trees illustrating the relationships between family members. Frequently, this information is obtained from various sources, such as letters, diaries, scrapbooks, photo albums, birth certificates, marriage licenses, church records, census records, wills and probate records, gravestones, and the like. Much of this material may be in the, it may be previously published, it may be previously registered Chapter 700 : 22