As of this month, the difference in fee for copyright registration on paper versus online has made a big jump.  The rate for online registration remained at $35, while paper registrations have gone up to $65. 

 I guess the Copyright Office is sending a not-so-subtle hint: we don’t want any more paper!  Of course, this means that many people who were willing to pay the $10 more (before Aug. 1) for paper, now will have to fork out $30 more.  My bet is that they will change to electronic.  One has to hope that an already strained system can handle the phone and email inquiries about timing out, file size, and payment…and the bandwidth that they will find themselves needing. 

 More info on this change can be found at www.loc.gov, in the Copyright Office information section.

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