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related works. The administrative classification of works has no significance with respect to the subject matter of copyright or the exclusive right provided by this title. (2) (3) Without prejudice to the general authority provided under clause (l), the Director General of Copyright shall establish regulations specifying and permitting a single registration for a group of works by the same individual author, all first published as contributions to periodicals, including newspapers, within a twelve-month period, on the basis of a single deposit, application, and registration fee, under all of the following conditions ­ (i) if each of the works as first published bore a separate copyright notice, and the name of the owner of copyright in the work, or an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or generally known, alternative designation of the owner of the same in each notice; and (ii) if the deposit consists of the copy of the entire issue of the periodical, or of the entire section in the case of a newspaper, III which each contribution was first published; and (iii) if the application identifies each work separately, including the periodical containing it and its date of first publication. As an alternative to separate renewal registrations, a single renewal registration may be made for a group of work by the same individual author, all first published as contributions to periodicals, including newspapers, upon the filing of a single application and fees, under all the following conditions: (i) renewal claimant or claimants, and the basis of claim or claims, the same for each of the works; (ii) the works were all copyrighted upon their first publication, either through separate copyright notice and registration or by virtue of a general copyright notice in the periodical issue as a whole; (iii) the renewal application identifies each work separately, including the periodical containing it and its date of first publication; (iv) Correction and Administrations - The Director General may also establish by regulation, formal procedures for the filing of an application for supplementary registration, to correct an error in a copyright registration or to amplify the information given in a registration. Such application shall be accompanied by the fee . specified, and shall clearly identify the registration to be corrected or amplified. The information contained in a supplementary registration augments but does not supersede that contained in the earlier registration; (v) Published Edition of Previously registered work - registration for the first published edition of a work previously registered in an unpublished form may eventhough as published, is subsequently the same as the unpublished version. IS 36

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