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, Third Edition • Editing

• Enhancements

• Entire program code

• Entire text

• Entire work

• Error corrections

• Features

• Macro (s)

• New programming text

• Patching

• Program text

• Programmer

• Programming text

• Search engine

• Text

• Text of computer program

• Text of computer game

If the applicant combines an acceptable authorship term with the term "text," such as "computer program and text" or "text and program code," the registration specialist will examine the deposit copy(ies) to determine if the work contains copyrightable text that is not part of the computer program. If the work does not appear to contain copyrightable text apart from the text of the computer program, the specialist may communicate with the applicant or may refuse to register that aspect of the claim.

721. 9(J) Unacceptable Terminology for an Application to Register a Computer Program

If the applicant asserts a claim in both the copyrightable and uncopyrightable features of the program, the specialist may annotate the application to indicate that the registration does not extend to the uncopyrightable features. If the applicant asserts a claim to copyright in any storage medium or any feature of the program that is uncopyrightable, the registration specialist may communicate with the applicant or may refuse

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