those portions of the copies or phonorecords embodying any work or
works protected under this title.


Section 404. Notice of copyright: Contributions to collective works.

(a) A separate contribution to a collective work may bear its own
notice of copyright, as provided by sections 401 through 403. However,
a single notice applicable to the collective work as a whole is sufficient
to satisfy the requirements of sections 401 through 403 with respect to
the separate contributions it contains (not including advertisements
inserted on behalf of persons other than the owner of copyright in the
collective work), regardless of the ownership of copyright in the
contributions and whether or not they have been previously published.

(b) Where the person named in a single notice applicable to a
collective work as a whole is not the owner of copyright in a separate
contribution that does not bear its own notice, the case is governed by
the provisions of section 406(a).


Section 405. Notice of copyright: Omission of notice.

(a) Effect of Omission on Copyright. -- The omission of the copyright
notice prescribed by sections 401 through 403 from copies or
phonorecords publicly distributed by authority of the copyright owner
does not invalidate the copyright in a work if-

(1) the notice has been omitted from no more than a relatively
small number of copies or phonorecords distributed to the public; to