Author Domains
The Guild's proceeding to retrieve the ".com" names of nine authors set legal precedent. Read story.
Midlist Study
The 52-page report commissioned by the Authors Guild Foundation and the Open Society Institute and published in 2000 on the state of the publication, marketing and sales of midlist books: Read report.
Copyright Forms
To register a manuscript, use Form TX. (If you are the only author and copyright holder and the work is new, you may use Short Form TX.)
Freelance journalists may want to register their collected work every 90 days and save registration fees. Use Forms GR/CP and TX to do this.
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You must file within 90 days of publication for maximum statutory protection, but even delayed filings provide valuable protection for your works.
The fee for filing either TX form is $30. There's no additional fee for filing GR/CP with a TX form.
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