Copyright 101 for Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists, and Librettists

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4:40 *Copyright Registration Fees:* As of August 24, 2022, the current fee to register ONE work using the on-line (eCO) copyright registration application is either $45 or $65. *“Single Application”:* The fee to register ONE un-/published work (like one play or one book or one illustration or one photograph or one painting or one cartoon or one poem, etc.) with ONE author who’s the SAME copyright claimant, that’s NOT a-work-for-hire project, and that does NOT include any third-party creative media, is $45 -- you MUST have created the ENTIRE work yourself! See www.copyright.gov/circs/circ11.pdf and kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5ylmoOHg6mJeMU Otherwise, to register a single un-/published work with multiple authors, and/or as a derivative/collective work, and/or that includes Creative Commons, Public Domain, and/or licensed media, etc., the fee is $65. Use the “Standard Application” (on-line eCO application): kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJixnKapisuMl9U If you’re registering one music composition where you’re the sole author, you can also register its corresponding sound-recording if you’re the sole person making/performing on the recording, by using the $45 Single Application. *"Un-Published Similar Works": * To register a group from 2 to 10 UN-published works from the SAME category type, like visual arts (un-published drawings, un-published illustrations, un-published paintings, un-published sculptures) the fee is $85 total (not $85 for each work being registered). See the tutorial *“Group Registration of Unpublished Works” (GRUW):* www.copyright.gov/gruw/ and kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4OUZZyJgpmYqbM Using the GRUW application, you can also register up to TEN un-published song compositions AND their corresponding un-published sound-recordings (up to 20 total) for the same $85 fee.