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III.
Unpublished works(cont'd)
B.
Unauthorized registration. If the registration was unauthorized (i.e., the remitter had no authority from the author or his assignee to apply for the registration at all), a complete new registration, not a "corrective entry," may be made by the author or his assignee. No reference should be made on the new application to the earlier registration.
Examples:
Author sent work to publisher for possible sale or recording purposes, and publisher makes registration either in his name or the name of the author, but without author's consent or authority.
Author registers claim in his name, and lists himself as author; "publisher" later asserts that work was made for hire, and publisher is author and claimant.
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