by deposit, may be used to satisfy the deposit provisions of this
section.

(c) Administrative Classification and Optional Deposit.--

(1) The Register of Copyrights is authorized to specify by regulation
the administrative classes into which works are to be placed for
purposes of deposit and registration, and the nature of the copies or
phonorecords to be deposited in the various classes specified. The
regulations may require or permit, for particular classes, the deposit
of identifying material instead of copies or phonorecords, the deposit
of only one copy or phonorecord where two would normally be required,
or a single registration for a group of related works. This
administrative classification of works has no significance with respect
to the subject matter of copyright or the exclusive rights provided by
this title.

(2) Without prejudice to the general authority provided under clause
(1), the Register of Copyrights shall establish regulations
specifically permitting a single registration for a group of works by
the same individual author, all first published as contributions to
periodicals, including newspapers, within a twelve-month period, on the
basis of a single deposit, application, and registration fee, under all
of the following conditions--

(A) if each of the works as first published bore a separate copyright
notice, and the name of the owner of copyright in the work, or an
abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known
alternative designation of the owner was the same in each notice; and

(B) if the deposit consists of one copy of the entire issue of the
periodical, or of the entire section in the case of a newspaper, in
which each contribution was first published; and (C) if the application
identifies each work separately, including the periodical containing it
and its date of first publication.

(3) As an alternative to separate renewal registrations under
subsection (a) of section 304, a single renewal registration may be
made for a group of works by the same individual author, all first
published as contributions to periodicals, including newspapers, upon
the filing of a single application and fee, under all of the following
conditions:

(A) the renewal claimant or claimants, and the basis of claim or claims
under section 304(a), is the same for each of the works; and

(B) the works were all copyrighted upon their first publication, either
through separate cop