Ch. 2.8
2.8,3
2.8,3
2-294
COPYRIGHT
OFFICE
PRACTICES
OFFICE
PRACTICES
2.8.3
Registration requirements(cont'd)
I.
Copyrightable subject-matter(cont'd)
b.
Sculptural material(cont'd)
1.
Minimal standards(cont'd)
Examples
(cont'd)
(b)
(cont'd)
cylinders arranged in a plain box according to size and color, Practice: We will refuse a registration in Class G based solely upon the unassembled toy, even though its component parts or pieces are potentially capable of being arranged in copyright able shapes and forms. The general idea of the toy is, of course, uncopyrightable, regardless of its novelty or uniqueness.
(c)
A work described as a "mobile" consists of nine pieces of translucent colored glass each of which is suspended by wire from an overhead rack designed to rotate about a pivot in a horizontal plane, The suspension wires vary in length and no two pieces of glass share the same shape or outline, Registration is sought in Class G on the basis of the overall effect pro duced by the play of light upon the suspended glass components of a work which the applicant
[1973]