Protect Your Copyright Through Professional Registration

Copyright registration records a claim of ownership for an original creative work with the relevant copyright authority. In the United States, registration can provide additional legal benefits when enforcing eligible copyrights.

Copyright may protect original literary works, music, artwork, photographs, videos, and other eligible creative content. Generally, the work must be expressed in a tangible form. Copyright does not ordinarily protect ideas, methods, or concepts on their own.

Registration creates an official record of your copyright claim and may provide important legal advantages in infringement cases. For eligible U.S. works, timely registration can also affect the availability of certain remedies.

In the United States, copyright duration depends on factors such as the type of work, authorship, and date of creation or publication. Many works created by individual authors are protected for the author's lifetime plus 70 years, while different rules may apply to works made for hire and other categories.

In the United States, copyright protection generally begins when an original work is created and fixed in a tangible form. Registration is a separate process that can provide additional legal benefits and is generally required before filing an infringement lawsuit involving a U.S. work.

Processing times vary depending on the application, the Copyright Office's current workload, and whether additional information is required. We help prepare your application carefully to reduce avoidable errors, but the final processing time is determined by the U.S. Copyright Office.