A group of published photographs may be registered on a single form with a single fee if all the following conditions are met:

1. All the photographs are by the same photographer. If an employer for hire is named as author, only one photographer’s work may be included.
2. All the photographs are published within the same calendar year
3. All the photographs have the same copyright claimant(s)

To apply for registration, send the following material in the same envelope or package to Library of Congress, Copyright Office, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20559-6000:

1. A correctly completed application Form GR/PPh, which includes Form VA, which also must be completed.

You must normally use this form if the date of publication is not identified on each of the deposited images. However, use of this form is optional if the images you are registering were all published within the 3-month period immediately prior to the date of receipt of your application, or if each of the deposited images published within a calendar year contains a specific date of publication. If you choose to use Form GR⁄PPh⁄CON, you are limited to 50 continuation sheets and 750 photographs on any one application.

3. A nonrefundable filing fee for each VA application. (Current Fees)
4. A nonreturnable deposit of the work to be registered.

You must deposit a copy of all photographs included in the group for which registration is sought. Only the photographs being registered as part of the group should be included. Submit the photos in one of the flexible formats listed on the instructions for Form GR/PPh/CON.

Cautions about group registration: If infringement of a published work begins before the work has been registered, the copyright owner can obtain the ordinary remedies for copyright infringement (including injunctions, actual damages and profits, and impounding and disposition of infringing articles). However, the owner cannot obtain special remedies (statutory damages and attorney’s fees) unless registration was made before the infringement commenced or within 3 months after first publication of the work. To be certain that your application, deposit, and fee are received in the Copyright Office within 3 months of publication of the earliest published photograph within the group, you may wish to register fewer than 3 months of published photographs on a single application.

FL-124, Revised June 2008