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Can I Search The Copyright Office?

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Question: Can I Search The Copyright Office?

Answer: The records of the Copyright Office are open for inspection and searching by the public. Moreover, on request, the Copyright Office will search its records for you at the statutory hourly rate of $65 - fees are subject to change - for each hour or fraction of an hour.

See - How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work and The Copyright Card Catalog and the Online Files of the Copyright Office

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Copyright Office records in machine-readable form cataloged from January 1, 1978, to the present, including registration and renewal information and recorded documents, are now available for searching on the Internet.

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