Visual Arts
Group Registration of Two-Dimensional Artwork (GR2D)
We have a new Group Registration of Two-Dimensional Artwork (GR2D) application for between 2 and 20 published two-dimensional artworks created by the same author. For more information, go to our GR2D information page.
Works of the visual arts include a wide variety of pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works, as well as architectural works. Examples of visual arts works include paintings, sculptures, photographs, and other types of works.
Statutory Definitions
The Copyright Act states that “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works include two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of fine, graphic, and applied art, photographs, prints and art reproductions, maps, globes, charts, diagrams, models, and technical drawings, including architectural plans.” (17 U.S.C. § 101)
The Copyright Act defines “Architectural Works” as “the design of a building as embodied in any tangible medium of expression, including a building, architectural plans, or drawings. The work includes the overall form as well as the arrangement and composition of spaces and elements in the design, but does not include individual standard features.” (17 U.S.C. § 101)
- Advertisements (visual / photograpy)
- Architectural Works
- Artwork (2D, 3D)
- Blueprints
- Board Games (visual aspects)
- Buildings
- Carpeting
- Cartography (maps / globes)
- Cartoons, Comic Strips, Comic Books
- Catalogs (visual aspects)
- Craft Kits
- Drawings
- Fabric Designs
- Flooring Designs
- Geologic Charts
- Graphic Designs
- Greeting Cards
- Illustrations
- Jewelry Designs
- Labels (visual aspects)
- Logos
- Maps
- Masks
- Models
- Paintings
- Photographs (GRUPH/GRPPH)
- Posters
- Prints / Reproductions
- Product Packaging
- Puppets
- Scientific Drawings
- Sculptures
- Stationery
- Stencils
- Technical Drawings
- Textile Designs
- Toys
- Vessel Hulls
- Wallpaper
- Websites
- Wrapping Paper
Resources
Video Tutorials
- Standard Application (Video: 10m 28s)
- Single Application (Video: 9m 58s)
- Submit Your Work to the Copyright Office (Video: 2m 46s)
- Group Registration of Unpublished Works (Video: 11m 50s)
- Group Registration of Unpublished Photographs (Video: 15m 12s)
- Group Registration of Published Photographs (Video: 17m 32s)
- Group Registration of Contributions to Periodicals (Video: 6m 47s)
- Supplementary Registration (Video: 6m 28s)
Other Services
Paper Applications
Group Options
- Photographs (GRUPH/GRPPH)
- Unpublished Works (GRUW)
- Two-Dimensional Artworks (GR2D) - published only
- Photographic Databases
- Contributions to Periodicals (GRCP)