Visual Art Works
Follow these steps to register your pictorial, graphic, sculptural, or architectural work:
Step 1
Make sure your work is a visual arts work. Visual arts are pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works,
including 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional works of fine, graphic, and applied art. Here are
examples of visual arts. "Useful articles"
may have both copyrightable and noncopyrightable features (read
details). Some architectural works also qualify as visual arts works. (read details).
Step 2
Put into one envelope or package:
- a completed application Form VA
- a $30 payment to "Register of Copyrights."
- nonreturnable copy(ies) of the material to be registered. Read details on deposit requirements.
Step 3
Send the package to:
Library of Congress
Copyright Office
101 Independence Avenue, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20559-6000
Please read this important notice about mail delivery disruption.
Your registration becomes effective on the day that the Copyright Office receives your application, payment,
and copy(ies) in acceptable form. If your submission is in order, you will receive a certificate of registration
in 4 to 5 months.
For more details, please see Circular 40, Copyright Registration for Works of the
Visual Arts; Circular 40a, Deposit Requirements in Visual Arts Material;
Circular 41, Copyright Claims in Architectural Works; Circular 44,
Cartoons and Comic Strips and other informational circulars.
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