Here, a Copyright Office staff person, or the general public, can look up a specific registration, and review and print an electronic version of the form, which is accessible from the card catalog area of the Copyright Office (as seen here). While you may get your form within a few months, they may not appear online for a few more months following that.(Comments and links after the Jump)
A Walk Through The Copyright Office:
- The CO – Introduction
- The CO – Your Registration Arrives
- The CO – Come On In
- The CO – Step 2
- The CO – Step 3
- The CO – Step 4
- The CO – Step 4A (Optional)
- The CO – Step 5
- The CO – Step 6
- The CO – Step 7
- The CO – All Done
- The CO – Special Circumstances (For You)
- The CO – Special Circumstances (For The CO)
- The CO – Closing Thoughts
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Originally published on Photo Business News & Forum on September 24, 2007. Comments are closed; this post is part of the archive.
It seems like an awefully expensive and inefficient way to get a registered timestamp on an item. I have to admit, I’ve never figured out why there is only one office. Why you can’t have private companies give out registered time stamps and why it is so impossibly expensive to get a copyright.