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The purpose of copyright registration is to place on record a verifiable account of the date and content of the work in question, so that in the event of a legal claim, or case of infringement or plagiarism, the copyright owner can produce a copy of the work from an official government source.
In 1870, Congress passed a law that centralized the copyright system in the Library of Congress. This law required all owners of copyrights of publicly distributed works to deposit in the Library two copies of every such work registered in the United States, whether it is a book, pamphlet, map, print, or piece of music.
50 years from publication; 50 years from creation if unpublished (corporate works; photographic works, audiovisual works, sound recordings, and performances) [224]: Arts. 33, 34 10 years from publication (posthumous works first published 40 to 50 years after death) [ 224 ] : Art. 30
Lectures and other works prepared for oral delivery Dramatic and dramatico-musical works published abroad Published dramatic and dramatico-musical works Unpublished dramatic and dramatico-musical works Renewal registrations. Part 5. MUSIC Musical compositions published abroad Musical compositions published in the United States Unpublished music
In addition, use of an unpublished work is less likely to be considered fair. Amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole: Courts look at both the quantity and quality of the copyrighted material that was used. Using a large portion of the copyrighted work is less likely to be fair use.
Librarians may make and supply single copies of an article or of a reasonable proportion of a literary, artistic or musical work to individuals who request them for the purposes of private study or research (ss. 38–40); copying of the entire work is possible if it is unpublished and the author has not prohibited copying (s.–43).
This is a list of notable unpublished works for which an original manuscript or copy is known to exist but for various reasons unpublished, unrecorded, or inaccessible to the public. Usually the manuscript is in the possession of a private owner who is unwilling to share it for viewing, copying, or recording.
The Creative Commons legal code for Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 (CC2.0) defines a collective work as: "Collective Work" means a work, such as a periodical issue, anthology or encyclopedia, in which the Work in its entirety in unmodified form, along with a number of other contributions, constituting separate and independent works in themselves, are assembled into a collective whole.