Title 37: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
PART 201—GENERAL PROVISIONS
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§ 201.3 Fees for registration, recordation, and related services, special services, and services performed by the Licensing Division.
(a) General. This section prescribes the fees for registration, recordation, and related services, special services, and services performed by the Licensing Division.
(b) Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) Registration, recordation, and related service fee. This is the fee for a registration or recordation service that the Office is required to perform under 17 U.S.C., or a directly related service. It includes those services described in section 708(a)(1)–(9) and authorized by Pub. L. 105–80.
(2) Special service fee. This is a fee for a special service not specified in title 17, which the Register of Copyrights may fix at any time on the basis of the cost of providing the service, as provided by 17 U.S.C. 708(a)(10).
(3) Licensing Division service fee. This is a fee for a service performed by the Licensing Division.
(c) Registration, recordation and related service fees. The Copyright Office has established the following fees for these services:
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Registration, recordation and rated services Fees------------------------------------------------------------------------(1) Registration of a basic claim in an original work of $45 authorship: Forms TX, SE, PA, VA (including Short Forms), and Form SR.................................................(2) Registration of a claim in a group of contributions to 75 45 periodicals (GR/CP).........................................(3) Registration of a renewal claim (Form RE): Claim without Addendum................................... 75 Addendum................................................. 220(4) Registration of a claim in a mask work (Form MW)......... 95(5) Registration of a claim in a group of serials (Form SE/ 25 Group) [per issue, with minimum 2 issues]...................(6) Registration of a claim in a group of daily newspapers 70 and 45 qualified newsletters (Form G/DN)....................(7) Registration of a claim in a restored copyright (Form 45 GATT).......................................................(8) Registration of a group of published photographs......... 45(9) Preregistration of certain unpublished works............. 100(10) Registration of a correction or amplification to a claim 115 150 (Form CA)...............................................(11) Providing an additional certificate of registration..... 40(12) Certification of other Copyright Office records (per 150 hour).......................................................(13) Search_report prepared from official records (per hour). 150 Estimate of search fee................................... 100(14) Location of Copyright Office records (per hour)......... 150 Location of in-process materials (per hour).............. 150(15) Recordation of document, including a Notice of Intention 95 to Enforce (NIE) (single title)............................. Additional titles (per group of 10 titles)............... 25(16) Recordation of Notice of Intention to Make and 12 Distribute Phonorecords.....................................(17) Recordation of an Interim Designation of Agent to 80 Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement under § 512(c)(2)...................................................(18) Issuance of a receipt for a § 407 deposit.......... 20(19) Registration of a claim in a vessel hull................ 200(20) Correction of error in a certificate of registration of 115 a vessel hull design (Form DC)..............................------------------------------------------------------------------------
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(d) Special Service Fees. The Copyright Office has established the following fees for special services:
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------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special services Fees------------------------------------------------------------------------(1) Service charge for deposit account overdraft............. $150(2) Service charge for dishonored deposit account 75 replenishment check.........................................(3) Appeals: (i) First appeal......................................... 250 Additional claim in related group.................... 25 (ii) Second appeal....................................... 500 Additional claim in related group.................... 25(4) Secure test processing charge, per hour.................. 150(5) Copying of Copyright Office Records by staff: Photocopy (b&w) (per page, minimum $6)............... 0.50 Photocopy (color) (per page, minimum $6)................. 1.50 Photograph (Polaroid).................................... 15 Photograph (digital)..................................... 45 Slide.................................................... 3 Audiocassette (first 30 minutes)......................... 75 Additional 15 minute increments...................... 20 Videocassette (first 30 minutes)......................... 75 Additional 15 minute increments...................... 25 CD or DVD................................................ 50 Zip or floppy disk....................................... 100(6) Special handling fee for a claim......................... 685 Each additional claim using the same deposit............. 50(7) Special handling fee for recordation of a document....... 435(8) Handling fee of extra deposit copy for certification..... 45(9) Full-term retention of a published deposit............... 425(10) Expedited Reference and Bibliography search and report.. 400/hr(11) Expedited Certification & Documents services 240 (surcharge, per hour).......................................(12) Notice to Libraries and Archives........................ 50 Each additional title.................................... 20(13) Use of COINS terminal in LM-B14 (per hour).............. 25(14) Fed Ex Service.......................................... 35(15) Delivery of documents via facsimile (per page, 7 page 1 maximum)....................................................------------------------------------------------------------------------
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(e) Licensing Division service fees. The Copyright Office has established the following fees for certain services performed by the Licensing Division:
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------------------------------------------------------------------------ Licensing Division services Fees------------------------------------------------------------------------(1) Recordation of a Notice of Intention to Make and $12 Distribute Phonorecords (17 U.S.C. 115).....................(2) Filing Fee for Recordation of License Agreements under 17 125 125 U.S.C. 118..............................................(3) Recordation of Certain Contracts by Cable Television 50 Systems Located Outside the Forty-Eight Contiguous States...(4) Initial Notice of Digital Transmission of Sound Recording 20 (17 U.S.C. 114)............................................. Amendment of 17 U.S.C. 114 Notice........................ 20(5) Statement of Account Amendment (Cable Television Systems, 95 Satellite Carriers, and Digital Audio Recording Devices or Media, 17 U.S.C. 111, 119, and 1003)........................(6) Photocopy made by staff (b&w) (per page, minimum $6). 0.50(7) Search, per hour......................................... 150(8) Certification of Search Report........................... 150------------------------------------------------------------------------
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[64 FR 29520, June 1, 1999, as amended at 64 FR 36574, July 7, 1999; 65 FR 39819, June 28, 2000; 67 FR 38005, May 31, 2002; 71 FR 31090, June 1, 2006; 71 FR 46402, Aug. 14, 2006]
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