U.s. copyright office phone number

Government body in the United States

For the laws that this administers, see Copyright law of the United States and Law of the United States.

The United States Copyright Office (USCO), a part of the Library of Congress, is a United States government body that registers copyright claims, records information about copyright ownership, provides information to the public, and assists Congress and other parts of the government on a wide range of copyright issues.^[1] It maintains online records of copyright registration and recorded documents within the copyright catalog, which is used by copyright title researchers who are attempting to clear a chain of title for copyrighted works.

The Register of Copyrights heads the Copyright Office. Shira Perlmutter is the 14th and current Register, since October 26, ^[2]

The Copyright Office is located in the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress, at Independence Ave