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recording the work embodied in such programme from the owner of the copyright in such work. (5) Other rights not affected - for the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the broadcast reproduction right conferred upon a broadcasting authority under this Chapter shall not affect the copyright. (a) In any literary, dramatic or musical work which is broadcast by that authority; or (b) In any record, recording any such work. SECTION: 2.33 COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION IN GENERAL (a) Registration Permissive - At any time during the subsistence of copyright in any published or unpublished work, the owner of copyright or of any exclusive right in the work may obtain registration of the copyright claim by delivering to the Copyright Office the deposit specified by this Section, together with the application and fee specified. (b) Deposit for copyright registration except as provided by sub-section (a). (c) The material deposited for registration shall include ­ (1) in the case of an unpublished work, one complete copy or sound recording; (2) in the case of a published work, two complete copies or sound recordings of the best edition; (3) in the case of a work first published outside Liberia, one complete copy or sound recording as so published; (4) in the case of a contribution to a collective work, one complete copy or phonorecord of the best edition of the collective work. Copies or sound recordings deposited for the Center for National Documents and Records under Section 2.38 may be used to satisfy the deposit provisions of this Section, if they are accompanied by the prescribed application and fee, and by any additional identifying material that the Director General may by regulation, require. The Director General shall also prescribe regulations establishing requirements under which copied or sound recordings acquired for the Center for National Documents and Records under sub-section (e) of Section 2.38, otherwise than by deposit, may be used to satisfy the deposit provisions of this Section. (d) Administrative Classification and Operational Deposit ­ (1) The Director General of Copyright is authorized to specify by regulation, the administrative classes into which works are to be placed for purposes of deposit and registration, and the nature of copies or sound recordings to be deposited in the various classes specified. The regulation may require or permit, for particular classes, the deposit of identifying material instead of copies or sound recordings, the deposit of only one copy or sound recordings where two would normally be required, or a single registration for a group 35

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