identifying material
identifying material. Copyright. A portion or representation of an entire work deposited with the U.S. Copyright Office. • A copyright registrant is required to deposit at least one complete copy of the work, and often two. If a trade secret would be disclosed by a deposit or if the work’s nature (e.g., a holograph) makes deposit difficult, a substitution is acceptable. Common forms of identifying material are drawings, photocopies, and selected pages of computer-software programs and databases. [Cases: Copyrights and Intellectual Property 50.10. C.J.S. Copyrights and Intellectual Property §§ 38–39.]
