Request to Remove or Replace Personally Identifiable Information

During the registration process, the U.S. Copyright Office collects certain types of personally identifiable information (PII), such as names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails. The Copyright Office provides some of this information in its public catalog, including cocatalog.loc.gov and the Copyright Public Records System (CPRS) pilot at publicrecords.copyright.gov. If you have a specific privacy or safety concern about the availability of this information, you can ask the Office to remove or replace some types of PII in the online catalog, according to the limitations and procedures set forth in 37 CFR § 201.2(e). The fee for this service is $100 per registration record.

To submit a PII request, complete the form below and follow the payment instructions provided in the confirmation screen and in the email confirmation you will receive after submitting the form.

Additionally, some applicants provide extraneous information that is not requested by the Office, such as Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and payment account numbers. The Office will remove this information from both the offline and online public records with no fee but will not annotate the records. Submit a request to remove extraneous information using the General Contact Us form.

For more details about the information the Copyright Office collects through registration and the PII removal process, see Privacy: Copyright Office Public Records.

The Office’s privacy policy is available on its website at https://www.copyright.gov/about/privacy-policy.html.

Please note limitations for using this process:

An online public record cannot be removed in its entirety.
An author or claimant name can only be replaced, not removed, in the online record if it is a legal name change and official documentation of the change is provided.
An author or claimant name cannot be changed to a pseudonym or the name of a business or organization.
A claimant address can only be replaced, not removed, and a verifiable replacement address is required.

Are you requesting a reconsideration of a previously denied PII request?*

Yes No

Number of Registrations*

Please note:

Below, you will find several types of requests you can make, each pertaining to certain categories of information. Each request corresponds to a specific part of the registration record, so please carefully read the instructions that appear after you check any of the boxes below.
You may check more than one box below, depending on what information you want replaced or removed.
This form should not be used to correct an error in an existing registration or to amplify the information given in an existing registration. Instead, use the supplementary registration.

Registration(s)

Registration Number*

PII Change Request*
Each request relates to specific information on your registration record – please read carefully and provide additional authorization(s) where requested.

Replace author or claimant name
Replace claimant address
Remove rights and permissions information
Replace rights and permissions information
Remove birth year

Reason for submitting request*

Contact Info

Name*

I am the author or claimant
I am the authorized representative of the author or claimant

Author or Claimant Name*

Contact Address*

City*

State*

Zip Code*

Contact Email*

Phone Number*

* I declare under penalty of perjury that the above information is true and correct.

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