#HOW TO COPYRIGHT YOUR WORK REGISTRATION#

And then the date that that package arrives at the Copyright Office, that’s the date your registration will be effective. If you have to mail a package to the Copyright Office, you’ll have submitted your application and paid your fee online. (Even though you’re not going to get it for many months.) So if you go through the process and you’re able to upload your files through the electronic system, you’ve submitted your application, you’ve paid your fee and you’ve got your email notification that they’ve gotten your uploaded files, that date is the date that the copyright registration certificate will be effective.

your uploaded files or the package you mail to them.

The date is going to be the date the Copyright Office receives three things. What’s the date on your copyright registration certificate, if you’re not going to get it for two to ten months? The date that’s going to be on your copyright registration certificate isn’t the date that the Copyright Office mails it, many months in the future. How long do I have to wait to sell my work after I submit my copyright registration application? This week’s question comes to us from Kathy in Nebraska.

A place designed to add ease to the legalese of running your creative business. Hi, I’m Kiffanie Stahle, founder of the artist’s J.D. That’s exactly what we’re going to cover in this week’s episode of Ask Kiff. Do you have to wait to release your work until that certificate arrives? And you click on the link and you see that it can take two to ten months to get your certificate. And after you do so, you see this little link that says “Processing Times”. Woohoo! You finally took the step of registering your copyright with the U.S.

How to copyright your work