Copyright Basics by United States;Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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fees, please check the Copyright Office Website at
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/, write the Copyright Office, or call (202) 707-3000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SEARCH OF COPYRIGHT OFFICE RECORDS The records of the Copyright Office are open for inspection and searching by the public. Moreover, on request, the Copyright Office will search its records for you at the statutory hourly rate of $65 for each hour or fraction of an hour. (See NOTE above.) For information on searching the Office records concerning the copyright status or ownership of a work, request "How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work" [http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ22.pdf], and "The Copyright Card Catalog and the Online Files of the Copyright Office" [http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ23.pdf]. Copyright Office records in machine-readable form cataloged from January 1, 1978, to the present, including registration and renewal information and recorded documents, are now available for searching on the Internet. These files may be examined through LOCIS (Library of Congress Information System). You may connect to LOCIS through the World Wide Web at [http://www.loc.gov/copyright/rb.html] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FOR FURTHER INFORMATION |
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