Copyright Workflow for Photographers: Protecting, Managing, and Sharing Digital Images

Chapter 4. Registration Using Paper Forms

In Chapter 3, I discuss the process of registering your photos with the U.S. Copyright Office using the online registration platform, eCO. Although electronic registration is the preferred (and faster) method to register your images, the Copyright Office still accepts paper forms for people who prefer to file that way and for people who are registering a group of published images (a paper form is the only way to register a group of published images, at least for now). This chapter walks you through the application process using paper forms.

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Although you can register a single image using a paper form, ...