I sat down last week to update my copyright registrations… HAVE YOU DONE THAT LATELY???
Anyway – this isn’t a wag-your-finger post, but rather a ‘heads up’ if you haven’t registered your art in a while.
I logged on and expected everything to be as expected. I have this down to a system and it no longer takes me a half hour or more to muddle through and remember what I’m doing. I got to the very first screen and did a double take – what the????
After a brief moment of panic that they had revamped the whole system, I was happy to discover that they simply added one screen with three yes/no questions. Here is what it’s all about so you don’t even have that moment of panic.
It’s pretty straight forward and you can see I’m a NO / YES / YES registration gal…
I answered NO to the first because I register in batches of art – I’d be completely broke if every image was done separately. Click here for a link to more details from the Library of Congress
I answered YES to the second because I’m the only one who created the work. If you were registering a group of art that was created by a group of people and going into a book, you might answer NO. But I imagine everyone reading this blog will be registering their own work and give #2 a YES. Click here for a link to more details from the Library of Congress
Finally, I answered YES because I own all the work that I created it. This is the beauty of art licensing after all… keep ownership and license the rights to use your art. Click here for a link to more details from the Library of Congress
There it is – pretty simple but since I panicked ever so slightly I thought I’d share. 🙂
Here’s to your creative success!
– Tara Reed
P.S. If you want more information about how to register your art in batches – READ MY BLOG POST: FAQ: How do you register copyrights in bulk?
P.P.S. Want more details on the whole process? Check out Sarah Feingold Esq’s eBook – Copyrights for Artists*
Thanks for the heads up…I would have panicked too