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Ch. 4
4.3.1
4.3.1
Part 4.3. POSITION OF NOTICE
4.3.1
In books.
I.
Statute. In "a book or other printed publication," the notice is to be placed "upon its title page or the page immediately following." (17 U.S.C. §2O)
II.
Title page.
a.
The title page is generally one on which the title is given special prominence as a principal feature of that page, usually preceding the body of the work. A book may have more than one such page. A notice on any page that can reasonably be considered a title page may be accepted.
Examples:
(1)
Preceding the text, a book is one page giving the title, author, and publisher, and another page giving the title alone: a notice on either of these pages would be acceptable
(2)
The title is given with special prominence at the head of the first page of text.: a notice on that page may be accepted.
b.
The mere fact that the title appears on several or all of the pages of a book does not make every such page a title page.
Thus, for example, although every page of a 50-page book bore the title, a notice on page 20 would not be acceptable.
c.
The cover of a book may be its title page.
d.
The dust jacket on a bock cannot be its title page. A notice on the dust jacket would not be acceptable tor registration of the book (but the dust jacket itself may be registrable as a separate work).
e.
It an unlimited notice appears on the title page of the book itself but the book as such contains no new
