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name and nationality or domicile of the
The application for copyright registration shall be made on a form prescribed by the Register of Copyrights and shall include— (1) the name and address of the copyright claimant; (2) in the case of a work other than an anonymous or pseudonymous work, the name and nationality or domicile of the author or authors, and, if one or more of the authors is dead, the dates of their deaths; (3) if the work is anonymous or pseudonymous,
— from Copyright Law of the United States of America Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code by United States

not a national or domiciliary of the
(b) The provisions of subsection (a) do not apply— (1) where on the date when importation is sought or public distribution in the United States is made, the author of any substantial part of such material is neither a national nor a domiciliary of the United States or, if such author is a national of the United States, he or she has been domiciled outside the United States for a continuous period of at least one year immediately preceding that date; in the case of a work made for hire, the exemption provided by this clause does not apply unless a substantial part of the work was prepared for an employer or other person who is not a national or domiciliary of the United States or a domestic corporation or enterprise; (2) where the United States Customs Service is presented with an import statement issued under the seal of the Copyright Office, in which case a total of no more than two thousand copies of any one such work shall be allowed entry; the import statement shall be issued upon request to the copyright owner or to a person designated by such owner at the time of registration for the work under section 408 or at any time thereafter; (3) where importation is sought under the authority or for the use, other than in schools, of the Government of the United States or of any State or political subdivision of a State; (4) where importation, for use and not for sale, is sought— (A) by any person with respect to no more than one copy of any work at any one time; (B) by any person arriving from outside the United States, with respect to copies forming part of such person's personal baggage; or (C) by an organization operated for scholarly, educational, or religious purposes and not for private gain, with respect to copies intended to form a part of its library; (5) where the copies are reproduced in raised characters for the use of the blind; or (6) where, in addition to copies imported under clauses (3) and (4) of this subsection, no more than two thousand copies of any one such work, which have not been manufactured in the United States or Canada, are publicly distributed in the United States; or (7) where, on the date when importation is sought or public distribution in the United States is made— (A) the author of any substantial part of such material is an individual and receives compensation for the transfer or license of the right to distribute the work in the United States; and (B) the first publication of the work has previously taken place outside the United States under a transfer or license granted by such author to a transferee or licensee who was not a national or domiciliary of the United States or domestic corporation or enterprise; and (C) there has been no publication of an authorized edition of the work of which the copies were manufactured in the United States; and (D) the copies were reproduced under a transfer or license granted by such author or by the transferee or licensee of the right of first publication as mentioned in subclause (B), and the transferee or the licensee of the right of reproduction was not a national or domiciliary of the United States or a domestic corporation or enterprise.
— from Copyright Law of the United States of America Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code by United States

nature and not only drink of the
The inhabitants of those islands take advantage of this gift of bountiful nature, and not only drink of the salutary element, but likewise bathe so frequently in it, that no impurity can long adhere to their skin.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr


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