The Copyright Office has announced new fee structures, effective May 1st. You can read the entire PDF list here. Basically, registration of collections is rising from $35 to $55 on May 1st. That’s quite a jump, so we highly recommend to register all those images you were putting off registering, during the month of April. The cost to register a single image remains $35, but unless you have a special, iconic image, you’re more likely to register more than one image. There is a new screen when you start registration that asks you several questions, like is this a single author and is it a single image. Depending how you answer, you get sightly different screens.
So go forth and register. You’ll be glad you did.
#1 by Marty Cohen on April 13, 2014 - 9:03 am
First, thank you for your excellent videos and especially for your Kelby One classes. They have been very helpful to me. I’m wanting to beat this May 1st price increase and am a little uncertain about one aspect of registering.
An example is the following: Four years ago I traveled to Kenya & Tanzania. I shot about 4,000 images and I have posted about 30 of them on my Blog and/or my website. But I haven’t registered any of them. Can I register all 4,000 (including the ones I posted) as “unpublished” or do I have to do two separate registrations for 3,970 “unpublished” and a second registration for 30 as “published”? (This question has broader impact, of course, as I have the same issue with all the images I’ve shot in the past 10 years that I want to register before may 1st.)
Thank you again…
Marty