How to Legally Protect Your Creative Work with Kathryn Goldman

At the 30:40 mark: My comprehending & techniques to sign-up “groups of works” is distinctive from the attorney’s.

To be apparent, creatives can sign-up from 2 to 10 UN-posted functions from the identical classification, like visual arts (for example, 3 un-posted paintings, two un-published drawings, 5 un-posted sculptures) applying the “Group Registration of Un-printed Works” (GRUW) on-line copyright registration application” for a single filing payment of $85 complete (it’s not $85 for each function). See the GRUW facts & tutorial at https://www.copyright.gov/gruw/ and https://youtu.be/eR14iSM4esQ

The legal professional explained the team software (GRUW) as a “coming out as a selection …is named a ‘Day of publication’ (copyright lingo) – all released on the identical working day.” I’ve never ever read of that! Once more, the GRUW software is for UN-released is effective ONLY. After you’ve formally registered via the GRUW software, you can officially publish these works independently or with each other at any time. Also, the US Copyright Office environment does not establish the GRUW application as a “collection” of performs, but alternatively as a Team of un-printed unique functions that have their possess copyright registration assert.

It’s vital NOT to blended revealed and UN-released functions in the GRUW application. If your performs are published, use the “Single Application” or “Standard Application” (see beneath).

Do not sign up your 10 un-printed will work using the GRUW software on say, a Monday, and on that pretty Monday “publish” them. If you can, wait at the very least two entire times before earning your work accessible to the public (released status).

To sign up A single get the job done ONLY, use the next on-line programs:

“Single Application”: The rate to register 1 un-/revealed function (like one particular e book or one particular illustration or a person photograph or 1 painting or just one cartoon or 1 poem, and so on.) with A person author who’s the Exact copyright claimant, that is NOT a-get the job done-for-employ undertaking, and that does NOT include any 3rd-party inventive media, is $45 — you Will have to have developed the Whole operate your self! See https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ11.pdf and https://youtu.be/MkBiPQNDVBc

Usually, to sign up a solitary un-/revealed perform with various authors, and/or as a spinoff/collective function, and/or that features Innovative Commons, General public Area, and/or certified media, and so on., the rate is $65. Use the “Standard Application” (on-line eCO software): https://youtu.be/6gNkssUfYas

If you’re unsure about which application to use to sign up your A single do the job, find the Typical Software.

“Publication” Definition: Publication commonly means the function has been released and manufactured readily available to the community for licensing, advertising, sharing, downloading, or for even more distribution (possibly for no cost or for payment). The working day you produce your artistic function to your customer or to inventory or to a promoting system (Etsy) is most likely the official date of its very first-publication. If you are just “displaying” a work on-line (like on a website or printed portfolio) and NOT marketing or sharing it, then the operate is possible un-released. See Round 1 (Copyright Principles, site 7) for the authorized definition of “Publication”: https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf

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