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12.2.2

Relation to copyright.(cont'd)

V.

Effort to record what cannot be registered. Where it is clear that the applicant is seeking to substitute recording a document for registering a copyright claim, or to assert by recordation a claim for which registration would be refused, the document will be rejected.

VI.

Submitted in error. Where it seems probable that the document has been submitted to the Copyright Office in error, it may be questioned or, in clear cases, returned without recordation.

Examples:

(1)

An assignment of rights in

a trade-mark or patent.

(2)

A document citing a registration number which has no relation to any Copyright Office registration number.

[1973]