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In general, the permissions process involves a simple five-step procedure: Determine if permission is needed. Identify the owner. Identify the rights needed. Contact the owner and negotiate whether payment is required. Get your permission agreement in writing.

When you register a claim to copyright in a work with the Copyright Office, you create a public record of your claim. All information you provide on your copyright registration will be available to the public, and most of it will be available online.

The U.S. Copyright Office maintains records of registered works by author and title, some of which may be searched online. More information can be found in the Copyright Office Circular 22 ? How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work, or by calling the Copyright Office at (202) 707-9100.

How do you check if something is copyrighted? We found out earlier that every original creative work is ?copyrighted? as soon as it's written down or saved in some tangible form. If you want to check registrations, though, you need to use the search engine on copyright.gov.

Content may be considered copyright-free if it has entered the public domain or if the rights holder is offering it for free, usually as a form of promotion. If you are using a piece of copyright-free material, proceed with caution.

Can you provide me with copies of my application and my work? Contact the Records Research and Certifications Section of the Copyright Office at 1 (877) 476-0778 (toll-free) or see Circular 6, Obtaining Access to and Copies of Copyright Records and Deposits, for details.