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societies, etc., which appear regularly at intervals of less than a year; and, generally, periodical publications which would be registered as second-class matter at the post office. Serial publications which are not clearly “periodicals’' should be registered as books and the application for registration should be accompanied by the required affidavit.
7. (c) Lectures, sermons, addresses, or similar productions, prepared for oral delivery.
8. ( d ) Dramatic and dramatico-musical compositions, such as dramas, comedies, operas, operettas, and similar works.
The designation “dramatic composition” does not include the following: Dances, motion-picture shows; stage settings or mechanical devices by which dramatic effects are produced, or “stage business”; animal shows, sleight-of-hand performances, acrobatic or circus tricks of any kind; scenarios for, or descriptions of motion pictures or of settings for the production of motion pictures. (These, however, when printed and published, are registrable as “books.”)
9. Dramatico-musical compositions include principally operas, operettas, and musical comedies, or similar productions which are to be acted as well as sung.
10. (e) Musical compositions, including other vocal and instrumental compositions, with or without words and separately published songs from operas and operettas, when not intended to be acted.
The words of a song printed alone should be registered as a “book,” not as a “musical composition.”
“Adaptations” and “arrangements” may be registered