The copyright registration service
Immediate worldwide protection for your work.
Online copyright registration is quick and easy, providing instant worldwide protection for your work.
Unlike postal applications, or alternative services, there is no limit on the amount you can upload within a single registration.
Do you need to register?
The free self assessment will help you decide if you need to register.
Top quality protection
The UK Copyright Service follow strict policies and procedures over the storage and security of your work. This coupled with our experience mean that you can be certain that your work is in safe hands.
Copyright registration with the UK Copyright Service is the fast, effective and low cost way to protect your work from infringement and misuse, and ensures you always have the best evidence to protect your work and your rights.
Whether you are a song writer, designer, artist, author, company or individual, if you produce original work, it is important to protect your intellectual property. Our registration centre provides the very best secured back up and archive management for your work, meaning we can ensure that you always have evidence to support you in any future disputes.
We hold registered copies of thousands of works including:
- Music and lyrics
- Commercial documents and advertising
- Web sites
- Software
- Designs and logos
- Artwork, illustrations and paintings
- Photographs
- Written documents, scripts, books, manuscripts and poems
- Film footage, plays and TV programmes
- Magazines and periodicals
Register online
With the easy to use online copyright registration system your work can be protected within minutes and there is no limit on the amount of data you can upload for protection.
Register by post
Traditional applications by post are also accepted via our postal application form. This is ideal for larger works that may be slow to upload or if you have a slow Internet connection.
We accept most major credit/debit cards, and all personal details are 100% secure.
