C. Filing Fee

The filing fee for registration is $20, since the Copyright Office believes the work in administering the registration procedure for restored works will be roughly comparable to general

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registration procedures.  In addition, the regulations contain special group registration options which will permit the registration of: 

(1) A group of works published under a single series title.  Form GATT should be used; the fee is $20 for up to a calendar year’s worth of episodes, installments, or issues published under the same single series title; and

(2) A group of at least two, but up to ten related individual works published within the same calendar year.  Form GATT/GRP should be used, the fee is ten dollars per individual work, that is between $20-$100 per application.

The registration regulations contain special instructions for payment of the filing fee, including payment by credit card.

D. Mailing Address

All GATT/URAA applications for registration should be mailed to:  URAA/GATT, NIEs and Registrations, P.O.  Box 72400, Southwest Station, Washington, DC 20024, USA.

VI.  NAFTA

Exactly a year before the URAA was signed into law, Congress enacted the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (NAFTA) of December 8, 1993, adding a new section 104A to the Copyright Code that allowed copyright restoration in certain Mexican and Canadian works.  See generally, Federal Register notices leading to the implementation of NAFTA, 59 FR 1408 (Jan. 10, 1994); 59 FR 12162 (Mar. 16, 1994); and 59 FR 58787 (Nov. 15, 1994).  Although Congress modeled the URAA provisions on NAFTA, there are significant differences.  For example, under the URAA, copyright restoration is automatic; under NAFTA it was not.  Moreover, the URAA requires an English translation of the title as part of the NIE, but NAFTA did not require an English translation for NAFTA statements of intent.

In enacting these two laws, Congress intended the restoration provisions to operate separately from one another.  Therefore, works restored under NAFTA are not additionally restored under the URAA.  It is clear that Congress intended a new section 104A enacted in the URAA, to replace the NAFTA version of section 104A.  Unfortunately, the statutory language in the URAA creates some ambiguities.  The recent presidential proclamation clarifies some of these questions. 60 FR 15845 (Mar. 27, 1995).

The regulation governing filings under NAFTA will be amended to reflect a reference to the public law.  This change is made necessary by the deletion of the NAFTA version of section 104A.  In addition, Secs. 201.33 and 202.12 of the Copyright Office regulations contain provisions clarifying that works already restored under NAFTA do not additionally fall within the provisions of the URAA.