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Copyright Law of the United States of America: contained in Title 17 of the United States Code. by United States;Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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(1) the document, or material attached to it, specifically identifies
the work to which it pertains so that, after the document is indexed
by the Register of Copyrights, it would be revealed by a reasonable
search under the title or registration number of the work; and

(2) registration has been made for the work.

(d) Recordation as Prerequisite to Infringement Suit. -- No person
claiming by virtue of a transfer to be the owner of copyright or of any
exclusive right under a copyright is entitled to institute an infringement
action under this title until the instrument of transfer under which such
person claims has been recorded in the Copyright Office, but suit may
be instituted after such recordation on a cause of action that arose before
recordation.

(e) Priority Between Conflicting Transfers. -- As between two
conflicting transfers, the one executed first prevails if it is recorded, in
the manner required to give constructive notice under subsection (c),
within one month after its execution in the United States, or at any
time before recordation in such manner of the later transfer. Otherwise
the later transfer prevails if recorded first in such manner, and if taken
in good faith, for valuable consideration or on the basis of a binding
promise to pay royalties, and without notice of the earlier transfer.

(f) Priority Between Conflicting Transfer of Ownership and
Nonexclusive License. -- A nonexclusive license, whether recorded or
not, prevails over a conflicting transfer of copyright ownership if the
license is evidenced by a written instrument signed by the owner of the
rights licensed or such owner's duly authorized agent, and if -
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