COPYRIGHT
OFFICE
PRACTICES
OFFICE
PRACTICES
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Ch. 2.8
2.8.2
2.8.2
2.8.2
Classification of works of art
I.
Nature of the material
a.
Single-page works. A single-page work of art is one whose content appears on one or both sides of a leaf, sheet, or their equivalent, A painting on canvas, board, or the like, may be considered a single-page work for purposes of classification.
1.
Pictorial or graphic material. Class G is the appropriate category for the registration of all individual pictorial or graphic works of art, in either published or unpublished form.
(a)
Class H. If the copyright claim is based only upon a published reproduction of an existing work of art and does not extend to the underlying work reproduced, Class H is the more appropriate category for registration. (See Part 2.9.)
(b)
Class I. If the pictorial or graphic material is designed for a scientific or technical use, such as a mechanical drawing, registration in Class I is more appropriate. (See Part 2.10.) However, if the-work is primarily aesthetic in its appeal or in the effect it produces, as for example, a drawing depicting the exterior of a building in perspective with trees and shrubbery, registration in Class G may not be inappropriate.
[1973]