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 - http://www.opensource.org/. 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 Word | PDF
Download and use this template to request permisison to copy copyrighted materials

Last Modified: April 25, 2011