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Stern, Shapiro, Weissberg & Garin, LLP Attn: Paul Sennott The below image is a reproduction of the Work from the deposit materials:



II.ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD

On March 19, 2013, the United States Copyright Office (the “Office”) issued a letter notifying Roger Kastel (the “Applicant”) that it had refused registration of the above mentioned Work. Letter from Adrienne Brown, Registration Specialist, to Paul Sennott (March 19, 2013). In its letter, the Office stated that it could not register the Work because it was published without copyright notice as required by the Copyright Act of 1909 (the “1909 Act”), the governing statute at the time of creation and publication of the Work. Id. Without proper notice the Work was injected into the public domain upon publication and, therefore, it lost the ability to be protected by copyright. Id.