Special handling

Special handling is a procedure for expediting the examination of a claim to copyright or to record a document. The…

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Source country

“The ‘source country’ of a restored work is— (A) a nation other than the United States; (B) in the case…

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Source code

Source code is a set of statements and instructions written by a human being using a particular programming language, such…

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Sound recordings

“‘Sound recordings’ are works that result from the fixation of a series of musical, spoken, or other sounds, but not…

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Shipping slip

A document generated by the U.S. Copyright Office’s electronic registration system. If the applicant submits a physical copy of a…

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Series of musical, spoken, or other sounds

series of musical, spoken, or other sounds connotes a temporal succession of sounds rather than simultaneous sounds, such as those…

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Serial

A work that is issued or intended to be issued on an established schedule in successive parts bearing numerical or…

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Semiconductor chip product

“A ‘semiconductor chip product’ is the final or intermediate form of any product— (A) having two or more layers of…

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Screen displays

Content generated by a computer program that appears on a computer screen.

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Scènes à faire

A stock character, setting, or event that is common to a particular subject matter or medium. Standard expressions that necessarily…

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