Copyrights can now be registered electronically with the U.S. Copyright Office using the Office’s “eCO” system. ECo has a lower filing fee ($35 for a basic claim verus $45) and permits claims tracking. ECO allows registrants to upload deposits in an array of text, video, image and audio file types. The Copright Office also promises faster processing of eCO.
Currently, eCO accepts basic registrations only, including for: (a) any single work; (b) a collection of unpublished works by the same author and owned by the same claimant; or, (c) multiple published works contained in the same unit of publication and owned by the same claimant. (Examples. A compact disk containing 10 songs; a book of poems)
Unfortunately, groups of contributions to periodicals cannot be registerd via eCO at this time.
