Decreased Processing Times for Copyright Registrations
The following is a guest post by Robert J. Kasunic, Associate Register of Copyrights and director of Registration Policy & Practice. At the beginning of October, the Copyright Office updated our...
View ArticleNew Learning Edge Series Video: What Is Copyright?
In the short time I’ve been part of the U.S. Copyright Office, I’ve had several conversations that follow this same general scenario: “You work for the Copyright Office? Isn’t that where every...
View ArticleCopyright Office Debuts Electronic Title List Validator
The following is a guest post by James Sanders, Documents Subject Matter Specialist in the U.S. Copyright Office’s Public Records & Repositories Division. The new ETL Validator tool will help...
View ArticleBarbara Ringer: Beyond the ©
Barbara Ringer Today we celebrate the forty-sixth anniversary of Barbara Ringer’s appointment as the first female Register of Copyrights. While her tenure was long before my time in the Copyright...
View ArticleCopyright Office’s Learning Engine Video Series on YouTube
When I first arrived at the U.S. Copyright Office back in June 2019, I spent some time getting up to speed on what exactly copyright is. I needed to know the answers to some basic questions like, “what...
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