You are allowed to register photos taken in 20 in example, if you publish them for the first time ever, in the same year, 2016 in my case. This might be a little bit confusing, so I repeat: basically I could register together photos taken during several years as a Group of Published Photographs if they were published in the same calendar year. So what I did was to search for all my recent (a few years back) photos that were not published yet, and published them all together.

Part of the eligibility requirements in the Compendium In particular if you hold the copyright of all the photos and they were published in the same year. Since I have a very limited budget, I had to find a way to register as many photos as possible together: I eventually found out that there is the possibility to register a 'Group of Published Photos' with an unlimited number of images, if they respect a series of requirements (See Compendium III 1116.1 ). Login screen of the Copyright registration procedure Of course I don't assume any responsibility on what you read here and in the next articles, it's just the story of my experience and you shouldn't take it as a legal opinion, but just as my personal experience.Īlso consider that procedures and laws are continuously changing, so this guide might be obsolete in the moment you read it. So now it's time to get to the core of the procedure.

We already mentioned briefly in another article the reasons that brought me to decide to register the copyright of over 42.000 photos as a Group of Published Photos with Eco service of the Usa Library of Congress in a previous article and listed several useful resources.

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