U.S. Copyright Office proposes new fee schedule

If your business discovered that its revenue covered only 60% of its costs, it would be time for a re-examination of operations. According to the U.S. Copyright Office’s notice in the May 24, 2018 Federal Register (83 Fed. Reg. 24054), historically, the fees collected by the Copyright Office covered only 60% of its costs. It has proposed for public comment a new fee schedule, which includes many higher fees and some new fees. The fee familiar to most – the fee to apply for copyright registration for a written, visual, or musical work –would increase from $55 to $75 for an electronic application. For applicants who file the most common types of applications via paper, the fee would increase from $85 to $125. The Copyright Office has also created some new fees. For example, with respect to supplemental registrations, the new fee for electronic filings would be $100 (the existing fee for paper filings would increase from $130 to $150). In addition, the Copyright…

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