Legal document records contain information on assignments and other information pertaining to the ownership status. When searching copyrights, it's important to remember the difference between initial registration records and legal document records. Initial registrations for monographs and serial publications records normally are less than 20 lines in length, and I recommend typing them out in format 9, which is full record format. X to restrict the set to records dealing with motion pictures, photoplays and filmstrips. Legal document records reflect either a correction to an initial registration or a change in ownership, the Party of the First being the original owner of the copyright, and the Party of the Second being the new owner of a copyright.
Legal documents can be VERY long.
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