Claims to copyright in either published or unpublished photographs may be registered in the Copyright Office.

Two or more unpublished photographs may be registered as a collection if:

1. The photographs are assembled in an orderly form;
2. The combined photographs bear a single title identifying the collection as a whole;
3. The copyright claimant in all the photographs and in the collection as a whole is the same; and
4. All the photographs are by the same author, or, if they are by different authors, at least one of the authors has contributed copyrightable authorship to each photograph.

Published collections of photographs and all the copyrightable elements of a unit of publication may be registered on a single form with a single fee if all the photographs are owned by the same copyright claimant.

You can register collections of photographs published over a period of either 3 months or 1 calendar year, using Form VA and Form GR/PPh. The number of photographs that may be identified on continuation sheets (Form GR/PPh/CON) are limited to 750, submitted with a single application form and a single filing fee (70 FR 15587). The regulation continues to place no limit on the number of photographs that may be included in a single group registration when the applicant elects not to use continuation sheets and instead identifies the date of publication for each photograph on the deposited image, and the applicant meets the other regulatory requirements for group registration of published photographs. The date of publication for each photograph may be identified in a text file on the CD-ROM or DVD that contains the photographic images or on a list that accompanies the deposit and provides the publication date for each image. For further information , see Federal Register notice 66 FR 37142, call (202) 707-9100 and order Package 124, or call the Copyright Office at (202) 707-3000.

Registration of a collection of photographs extends to each copyrightable element in the collection. See Circular 40a, Deposit Requirements for Registration of Claims to Copyright in Visual Arts Material, for further details.

For further information on registration, see SL-35. For further information on copyright, deposit requirements, and registration procedures, see Circular 1, Copyright Basics.

*NOTE: Copyright Office fees are subject to change. For current fees, please check the Copyright Office website, write the Copyright Office, or call (202) 707-3000.

FL-107, Revised June 2008

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