1998 Policy Decision announcing new language for section 1615.07

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NOTICE OF POLICY DECISION.
CHANGE IN PROCEDURE FOR RECORDING CERTAIN MULTIPLE TITLE DOCUMENTS
The following excerpt is taken from Volume 63, Number 82 of the
Federal Register for Wednesday, April 29,1998 (pp.23475-23476)
and indexed as a single title, even when 	Dated: April 23, 1998.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 	different registration numbers or dates are
listed. For index purposes, the title is
Copyright Office 	followed by a notation such as "vol. 1, no. 1- 	Marybeth Peters,
12". 	Register of Copyrights.
[ D o c k e t N o . 96-31 	Under the changed practice, titles that are
repeated in documents will continue to be 	[FR Doc.98-1 1373 Filed 4-28-98; 8:45 am]
Change in Procedure for Recording
Certain Multiple Title Documents
AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of
Congress.
ACTION: Notice of policy decision.
SUMMARY: The Copyright Office of the
Library of Congress issues this policy
decision changing the recordation procedure
for a narrow category of multiple title
documents. The change will be incorporated
in a revised Chapter 1600 of the 	'
Compendium of Copyright Offtce Practices,
"Recordation of Transfer and Other
Documents Pertaining to a Copyright," to be
made available on-line on the Copyright
Office Website on July I, 1998.
EFFECTIVE DATE: July I, 1998.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT: Kent Dunlap, Principal Legal
Advisor Copyright, GCII&R, P.O. Box
70400, Southwest Station, Washington, D.C.
20024. Telephone (202) 707-8380. Telefax:
(202) 707-8366.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Currently, titles that are repeated in
documents submitted for recordation are
indexed as a single "title" and are counted as
a single title. Similarly, titles that are
repeated and followed by consecutive issues.
volumes, chapters or installments are counted
counted as a single title, except where the
document lists different issues, volumes, 	BILLING CODE 1410-30-P
chapters, or installments following the title.
Each such entry will be regarded as a
separate title, and will be indexed separately
and counted separately for purposes of
computing the recordation fee.
The Office believes that this change will
facilitate the search for individual issues or
volumes in the Copyright Office records, and
that the new method of assessing the fee will
more accurately
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reflect the additional work involved in
separately indexing each entry.
Policy Decision
The Copyright Office's recordation
procedure set out in Sec. 1615.07 of Chapter
1600 of the Compendium is amended to read
as follows:
Single and multiple titles distinguished. A
single title that is repeated is counted as a
single "title" for the purpose of computing the
fee. However, when multiple issues or numbers
of a serial, or different chapters or installments
are contained in a document. each will be
indexed and therefore each 1s considered to be
an individual title for which a separate fee is
charged.
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