1. Publish the issue upon which copyright protection is desired,
printing therein the required copyright notice, before making any
application to the Copyright Office for registration. (As to the form
and position of the notice, see page 34.)
2. Promptly after the publication of each issue, send two copies
thereof to the Copyright Office, Washington, D.C., with an application
for registration (upon Form "B 1") and a remittance for the statutory
fee of $1.00, which sum includes the cost of a certificate under
seal. Such certificate "shall be admitted in any court as prima facie
evidence of the facts stated therein."
¶Publishers who desire to avoid the trouble of filling out a
separate application form, and of making a separate remittance for
each issue, may send in advance a sum to be placed to their credit,
accompanied by a general application (upon Form "B 2"), requesting
registrations to be made thereafter upon the prompt deposit in
the Copyright Office of the copies of the successive issues, from
time to time, as they are published. After this has been done,
two copies of each issue should be mailed to the Copyright Office
promptly after publication, with a slip (supplied in blank by the
Copyright Office) giving the exact date of publication of the
issue (i.e. "the earliest date when copies of the first authorized
edition were placed on sale, or sold, or publicly distributed by
the proprietor of the copyright or under his authority").
The statutory fee for the registration of any one issue of a periodical
is one dollar, including a certificate under seal as already explained.
Non-certificate, fifty-cent, entries are not permissible under the
present law. Each issue of a copyright periodical requires the payment
of its own registration fee of one dollar.
=Contributions to periodicals:=
Section 3 of the new law provides "that the copyright provided by this
Act shall protect all the copyrightable component parts of the work
copyrighted, and all matter therein in which copyright is already
subsisting, but without extending the duration or scope of such
copyright. The copyright upon composite works or periodicals shall give
to the proprietor thereof all the rights in respect thereto which he
would have if each part were individually copyrighted under this Act."
For regulations regarding _contributions_ to periodicals see page 36.
=Titles:=
The general title of a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical cannot
be recorded under the copyright law. The requirement of the former law,
that a printed title be deposited on or before the day of publication,
has been abrogated, and the deposit of the title in advance of
publication is no longer authorized. What the law now requires is that
there be deposited two complete copies of each issue, promptly after
publication.
=Remittances:=
All remittances to the Copyright Office should be made by money-order,
payable to the Register of Copyrights. No money (currency or coin)
should be placed in any letter or other matter sent to the Copyright
Office. Postage stamps should not be sent as fees. Private checks will
not be accepted unless certified.