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Sending your valuable work to America? Registered your copyright there yet?

Many of our clients want to market their work to the world, and in particular the USA. Who can blame them? As one of the most prosperous markets in the world, it’s the natural choice for English-speaking creatives to want to sell their wares.

With that though comes concern about how to best protect their intellectual property.

Well, duly noted® can help with that.

For a while we’ve been recommending clients who are promoting their work in the USA to register with the US Copyright Office as a precaution, with duly noted® as their online registration agent.

Why we recommend a US Copyright registration

A registration at the US Copyright Office is advisable in order to facilitate proof of copyright ownership (not to bring copyright into existence; it’s automatic upon creation there too) as well as to file statutory damage claims in the US courts in the event of infringement. While this is for advisable for US citizens, at the same time it will be of assistance to non-US creatives selling their work in the USA.

Why register using duly noted®?

Registering online with us makes sense. Why?

• Our years of experience filing clients work online with the USCO
• We do the work for you; submitting the registration claim form and your work to the USCO on your behalf
• Online registration is faster than submission by post
• Certain works can be uploaded electronically direct to the USCO
• No stress for you going through the process
• More time for you to devote to your creativity

How it works

Assuming your work fulfils the online submission criteria* then:

• If you’ve already registered a work with us, contact us with the registration details, the retrieval password and pay us to do the rest
• We access the work you registered with us and complete the US Copyright Office online filing process. We confirm the filing details with you, and when you’re happy the data is correct…
• We submit the online forms with your uploaded work. Processing at the US Copyright Office takes between a few weeks to a couple of months, and you receive the confirmation certificate of copyright registration in the mail. Job done.

Simple! Hassle free! You give us the data, we do the rest.

And the cost of this service?

Just £97 (this includes the USCO $35 filing fee and VAT).

What if I haven’t registered anything with you yet?

Don’t worry, we can still assist. Simply email us the work you wish to register and make the payment and we can file the registration claim.

Interested?

Using the button below, firstly purchase your USCO registration via Paypal. On receipt of payment confirmation, contact us at mailbox@dulynoted.co.uk to give us your member and registration details. Alternatively, you can also provide your details during the payment process.

We’ll then do the rest.

duly noted®… making global online copyright registration easier.

(*That is; unpublished works and works published only electronically, e.g. novel manuscripts, screenplays, poetry collections, MP3s, Ebooks, Photographs, digital artwork. However, published works like hardcopy novels, released albums and movies available in stores would require hardcopy submission to the USCO.)