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- 37 CFR 203.2 · Authority and functions.
- 37 CFR 203.3 · Organization.
- 37 CFR 203.4 · Proactive disclosure of Office records.
- 37 CFR 203.5 · Requirements for making requests.
- 37 CFR 203.6 · Responsibility for responding to requests.
- 37 CFR 203.7 · Timing of responses to requests.
- 37 CFR 203.8 · Responses to requests.
- 37 CFR 203.9 · Administrative appeals.
- 37 CFR 203.10 · Preservation of records.
- 37 CFR 203.11 · Fees.
- 37 CFR 204.1 · Purposes and scope.
- 37 CFR 204.2 · Definitions.
- 37 CFR 204.3 · General policy.
- 37 CFR 204.4 · Procedure for notification of the existence of records pertaining to individuals.
- 37 CFR 204.5 · Procedures for requesting access to records.
- 37 CFR 204.6 · Fees.
- 37 CFR 204.7 · Request for correction or amendment of records.
- 37 CFR 204.8 · Appeal of refusal to correct or amend an individual's record.
- 37 CFR 204.9 · Judicial review.
- 37 CFR 205.1 · Definitions.
- 37 CFR 205.2 · Address for mail and service; telephone number.
- 37 CFR 205.3 · Waiver of rules.
- 37 CFR 205.4 · Relationship of this part to the Federal Rules of Civil and Criminal Procedure.
- 37 CFR 205.5 · Scope of this part related to Copyright Office duties under title 17 of the U.S. Code.
- 37 CFR 205.6-205.10 · §§ 205.6-205.10 [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 205.11 · Scope and purpose.
- 37 CFR 205.12 · Process served on the Register of Copyrights or an employee in his or her official capacity.
- 37 CFR 205.13 · Complaints served on the Register of Copyrights pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 411(a).
- 37 CFR 205.14 · Court requests to the Register of Copyrights pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 411(b)(2).
- 37 CFR 205.15 · Court notices to the Register of Copyrights pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 508.
- 37 CFR 205.16-205.20 · §§ 205.16-205.20 [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 205.21 · Scope and purpose.
- 37 CFR 205.22 · Production of documents and testimony.
- 37 CFR 205.23 · Scope of testimony.
- 37 CFR 205.24 · Ex Parte communications in informal rulemakings.
- 37 CFR 210.1 · General.
- 37 CFR 210.2 · Definitions.
- 37 CFR 210.3 · Accounting requirements where sales revenue is “recognized.”
- 37 CFR 210.4 · Accounting requirements for offsetting phonorecord reserves with returned phonorecords.
- 37 CFR 210.5 · Situations in which a compulsory licensee is barred from maintaining reserves.
- 37 CFR 210.6 · Monthly statements of account.
- 37 CFR 210.7 · Annual statements of account.
- 37 CFR 210.8 · Documentation.
- 37 CFR 210.9 · Harmless errors.
- 37 CFR 210.10 · Statements required for limitation on liability for digital music providers for the transition period prior to the license availability date.
- 37 CFR 210.11 · Record companies using individual download licenses.
- 37 CFR 210.12-210.20 · -210.20 [Reserved]
- 37 CFR 210.21 · General.
- 37 CFR 210.22 · Definitions.
- 37 CFR 210.23 · Designation of the mechanical licensing collective and digital licensee coordinator.
- 37 CFR 210.24 · Notices of blanket license.
- 37 CFR 210.25 · Notices of nonblanket activity.
- 37 CFR 210.26 · Data collection and delivery efforts by digital music providers and musical work copyright owners.
- 37 CFR 210.27 · Reports of usage and payment for blanket licensees.
- 37 CFR 210.28 · Reports of usage for significant nonblanket licensees.
- 37 CFR 210.29 · Reporting and distribution of royalties to copyright owners by the mechanical licensing collective.
- 37 CFR 210.30 · Transfers of copyright ownership, royalty payee changes, and related disputes.
- 37 CFR 210.31 · Musical works database information.
- 37 CFR 210.32 · Musical works database usability, interoperability, and usage restrictions.
- 37 CFR 210.33 · Annual reporting by the mechanical licensing collective.
- 37 CFR 210.34 · Treatment of confidential and other sensitive information.
- 37 CFR 211.1 · General provisions.
- 37 CFR 211.2 · Recordation of documents pertaining to mask works.
- 37 CFR 211.3 · Mask work fees.
- 37 CFR 211.4 · Registration of claims of protection in mask works.
- 37 CFR 211.5 · Deposit of identifying material.
- 37 CFR 211.6 · Methods of affixation and placement of mask work notice.
- 37 CFR 211.7 · Reconsideration procedure for refusals to register.
- 37 CFR 212.1 · Scope.
- 37 CFR 212.2 · Fees.
- 37 CFR 212.3 · Registration of claims for protection of eligible designs.
- 37 CFR 212.4 · Affixation and placement of design notice.
- 37 CFR 212.5 · Recordation of distinctive identification of vessel designer.
- 37 CFR 212.6 · Recordation of transfers and other documents.
- 37 CFR 212.7 · Reconsideration procedure for refusals to register.
- 37 CFR 212.8 · Correction of errors in certificates of registration.
- 37 CFR 220.1 · Definitions.
- 37 CFR 220.2 · Authority and functions.
- 37 CFR 220.3 · Copyright Claims Board Handbook.
- 37 CFR 220.4 · Timing.
- 37 CFR 220.5 · Requests, responses, and written submissions.
- 37 CFR 221.1 · Registration requirement.
- 37 CFR 221.2 · Small claims expedited registration.
- 37 CFR 222.1 · Applicability of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Federal Rules of Evidence.
- 37 CFR 222.2 · Initiating a proceeding; the claim.
- 37 CFR 222.3 · Initial notice.
- 37 CFR 222.4 · Second notice.
- 37 CFR 222.5 · Service; waiver of service; filing.
- 37 CFR 222.6 · Designated service agents.
- 37 CFR 222.7 · Order regarding second filing fee and electronic filing registration.
- 37 CFR 222.8 · Response.
- 37 CFR 222.9 · Counterclaim.
- 37 CFR 222.10 · Response to counterclaim.
- 37 CFR 222.11 · Scheduling order.
- 37 CFR 222.12 · Amending pleadings.
- 37 CFR 222.13 · Consolidation.
- 37 CFR 222.14 · Additional parties.
- 37 CFR 222.15 · Written testimony on the merits.
- 37 CFR 222.16 · Hearings.
- 37 CFR 222.17 · Withdrawal of claims; dismissal.