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# Soon It Will Cost More For Copyright Registration
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/soon-it-will-cost-more-for-copyright-registration/
- Published: 2019-10-31T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-11-01T21:08:10.000Z
- Description: Every few years, the U.S. Copyright Office does a detailed study on its fees in an attempt to determine whether they need adjusting. In their latest audit, the office decided. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/10/soon-it-will-cost-more-for-copyright-registration.html]
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- Tags: DIY Advice & Tips, Music Business, Songwriting & Music Publishing, copyright, DIY, DIY musicians, indie, music, music industry, musician, musicians, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 09:55

[ ](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20240a4e5d422200b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Every few years, the U.S. Copyright Office does a detailed study on its fees in an attempt to determine whether they need adjusting. In their latest audit, the office decided it was time to raise its rates by about $10 for most electronic filings.

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Guest post by **Bobby Owsinski** of [Music 3.0](https://music3point0.com/2019/10/30/copyright-registration-fees/?ref=hypebot.com)The fee for official copyright registration is about to go up. Every three to five years, the **U.S. Copyright Office** does an in-depth study of its fees to determine whether to adjust them, then [sends its results](https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.copyright.gov%2Frulemaking%2Ffeestudy2019%2Fproposed-fee-schedule.pdf%3Floclr%3Dblogcop&ref=hypebot.com) to Congress, which then has 120 days to do nothing (meaning approval) or pass a law disapproving the price recommendations.The Office is now proposing raising the fee for the Standard Application from $55 to $65, which is $10 less than the 2018 proposal. Similarly, the Single Application (the lower-priced option for single works by individual authors) will go from $35 to $45, which is also $10 less than the 2018 proposal.Here’s the proposal as it pertains to music:

| **REGISTRATION** **TYPE**                       | **CURRENT PRICE** | **PROPOSED PRICE** |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ----------------- | ------------------ |
| Single work (electronic filing)                 | $35               | $45                |
| Single work (paper filing)                      | $85               | $125               |
| Group of works (album – electronic filing only) | $55               | $65                |

Remember that you *don’t* *have* to file a registration with the Copyright Office. Once you publish a work anywhere online it’s automatically copyrighted. You do have to register in order to file a claim with the Copyright Office as [proposed by the CASE Act (copyright small claims)](https://music3point0.com/2019/10/24/case-act/?ref=hypebot.com) however.Copyright registration is a matter of time-stamping your work in order to verify that you created it first, so it’s not something that you can really do at a later date and have it mean anything. That’s why it’s always a balancing act between filing and not filing for most songwriters and artists. Many are not willing to spend the time and money involved.But if a timestamp of your creation is all that’s necessary, you’ll have that from almost everywhere online that it’s posted automatically. Still, the safest way is still with a formal registration from the Copyright Office.