Step 3

Send the package to:

Library of Congress
Copyright Office
101 Independence Avenue, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20559-6000

Your registration becomes effective on the day that the Copyright Office receives your application, payment, and copy(ies) in acceptable form. If your submission is in order, you will receive a certificate of registration in 4 to 5 months.

For more details from the U.S. Copyright Office, please see Circular 40, Copyright Registration for Works of the Visual Arts; Circular 40a, Deposit Requirements in Visual Arts Material; Circular 41, Copyright Claims in Architectural Works; Circular 44, Cartoons and Comic Strips and other informational circulars.