Registering Your Work

Links for registering your work with the U.S. Copyright Office and for obtaining copyright licenses and permission:

• U.S. Copyright Registration Forms
  Procedures for registering different types of work
• Creative Commons
  Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works
• Copyright Clearance Center
  Get instant permission to use and share published content from the rights licensing experts at Copyright Clearance Center
• Open Source Initiative Software Licenses
  Collection of software licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative. According to OSI, “if you distribute your software under one of these licenses, you are permitted to say that your software is OSI Certified Open Source Software.”
• Sample Request-to-Copy Letter to Copyright Holders
  Download and use this template to request permisison to copy copyrighted materials