Where Form 5495 Copyright 2017-2023

I'm John Harrington author of the book best business practices for photographers and more best business practices for photographers we're here on Capitol Hill right next to the Library of Congress where we normally go to do our registrations in person this entire video walks you through step by step how to use the electronic Copyright Office in order to do a registration of published images you'll need a spreadsheet and we provided that spreadsheet at a URL below now this example is of a group registration of published images separately we're going to do a video that will show you how to do a series of unpublished images so stay tuned for that we use Adobe Acrobat Photo mechanic and Microsoft Excel in order to do this process now once you've watched the video you may find that there is a solution that actually works better with applications that you're using so that's fine I'd like to thank noted copyright expert Jeff Sedlec and Jeff Suarez for the ideas that provided fodder for this system the system takes less than an hour to do from beginning to end to registering thousands of images so if you're doing it every month it's about an hour a month while we live and work here in Washington DC it's now actually easier for us to use the e c.o to register our images than to do it in person don't worry get your images registered now and moving forward and then as you're more comfortable with your images and the registration process you can go backwards and do them that way now we've shortened the duration of this video so that you can actually have to watch progress bars as we're doing it so but the reality is is it does take...