Copyright in Derivative Works and Compilations

U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright in Derivative Works and Compilations.

Type

Web resource

Intellectual base

Web

Pages cited

1-2

Link

https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Domain-specific

• Derivative Work
  • If the earlier material is public domain, new authorship can be protected without recapturing that underlying material.

    This sourceThe circular's registration-policy discussion says current Compendium policy supersedes it; the statutory text supplies the operative rule. https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf.

Verification

Does it exist? Not checked yet. This entry carries no identifier to resolve. It was extracted from the citation as written in the article, normalized, and deduplicated against the rest of the registry.

Does it back the claim? Not recorded. The single citation of this work carries no recorded support check.

Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.

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