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Copyright & Internet Law: Forms

Below are copyright forms in PDF that you can download and use.

  • Circular 61, Registering Computer Programs/Software
  • Document Cover Sheet
    Cover sheet for use when submitting documents for recordation.
  • Form CA
    Supplementary Registration used to change or supplement any information, whether substantive or not, submitted on any original registration form.
  • Form GR/PPh/CON
    Group registration of published photographs continuation sheet.
  • Form PA with Instructions
    Published works of the Performing Arts, whether for performance before an audience or indirectly by means of any device or process, including:
    1. Musical works, including words
    2. Dramatic works, including music
    3. Pantomimes and choreographic works
    4. Motion picture and other audiovisual works
  • Form RE with Instructions
    Renewal Form
  • Form RE/CON
    Continuation form to be used only in conjunction with RE application form.
  • Form SE with Instructions
    Serial: A work designed as a work intended to be issued in successive parts bearing numerical or chronological designations and intended to be continued indefinitely, including:
    1. Periodicals
    2. Newspapers
    3. Annuals
  • Form SE/Group
    Registration available for two or more issues of a serial published at weekly (or longer) intervals under the same title, provided the issues were published within a 90-day period during the same calendar year. Other conditions apply.
  • Form SR with Instructions
    Published or Unpublished Sound Recordings: Works that result from the fixation of musical, spoken, or other sounds. This does not include audio portions of audiovisual works, such as a motion picture soundtrack, which are considered part of audiovisual works as a whole. This form should be used when the copyright claim is limited to the sound itself, or where the claimant is seeking simultaneous registration of the underlying work embodied in the recording.
  • Form TX with Instructions
    Published or Unpublished Nondramatic Literary Works, excluding periodicals or serials, including:
    1. Fiction
    2. Nonfiction
    3. Poetry
    4. Textbooks
    5. Catalogs
    6. Compilations of Information
  • Form VA with Instructions
    Published or Unpublished Works of the Visual Arts, including pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including two-dimensional works of fine or graphic art, photographs, prints, maps, diagrams and models.
  • Short Form PA
  • Short Form SE
  • Short Form TX
  • Short Form VA