US Copyright Records Search

Search US Copyright Office registration records. Built for IP counsel, brand teams, researchers and AI agents.

📊 Sample Output

title	allTitles	typeOfRecord	registrationNumber	copyrightNumberForDisplay	registrationStatus
Laboratory Manual for First Year Zoology	['Laboratory Manual for First Year Zoology']	registration	aa410463	AA 410463	published
Financial Principles and Policy	['Financial Principles and Policy']	registration	aa357630	AA 357630	published
Elementary Descriptive Geometry	['Elementary Descriptive Geometry']	registration	aa298932	AA 298932	published
Taylor Bath Thermometers Form 99064 2.39	['Taylor Bath Thermometers Form 99064 2.39', 'Taylor Bath Thermometer…	registration	aa291929	AA 291929	published
Fish With a Taylor Barometer Taylor Fishing Guide No.2280-F Fisherman…	["Fish With a Taylor Barometer Taylor Fishing Guide No.2280-F Fisherm…	registration	aa325736	AA 325736	published
Taylor Altitude Barometer (Folder a-22)	['Taylor Altitude Barometer (Folder a-22)']	registration	aa394863	AA 394863	published

Real rows from run E6kHiBLT3Gr4gVPDY on build 0.0.20 (2026-09-25), unedited apart from masked emails/phones and shortened long text; fields the source does not publish are empty.

🔧 Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
query (required)	string	"Taylor Swift"	Free-text search across titles, authors, and claimants.
typeOfWork	array of string		Filter by work type.
typeOfRecord	array of string		registration / recordation / acquisition.
registrationStatus	array of string		Filter by registration status.
maxResults	integer	200	Maximum number of records to return.
useResidentialProxy	boolean	true	Route through Apify residential proxy (required: source blocks datacenter IPs via Cloudflare).
userAgent	string		Optional custom User-Agent header.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run E6kHiBLT3Gr4gVPDY (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "title": "Laboratory Manual for First Year Zoology",
  "allTitles": [
    "Laboratory Manual for First Year Zoology"
  ],
  "typeOfRecord": "registration",
  "typeOfWork": "book",
  "registrationClass": "book",
  "registrationNumber": "aa410463",
  "copyrightNumberForDisplay": "AA 410463",
  "registrationStatus": "published",
  "recordationNumber": null,
  "recordationItemType": null,
  "authors": [
    "G. Wellford Taylor"
  ],
  "claimants": [
    "G. Wellford Taylor"
  ],
  "displayNames": null,
  "applicationDate": "1942-09-24",
  "firstPublishedDate": "1942-09-21",
  "registrationDate": "1942-09-25",
  "recordationDate": null,
  "depositReceivedDate": "1942-09-24",
  "numberOfPages": null,
  "systemOfOrigin": "card_catalog",
  "controlNumber": "CC19381945AA_410100-410899.0364",
  "publicRecordsId": "card_catalog_CC19381945AA_410100-410899.0364",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/copyright/hprcatcard/19/38/19/45/AA/_4/10/10/0-/41/08/99/19381945AA_410100-410899/CC19381945AA_410100-410899.0364a.jpg",
    "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/copyright/hprcatcard/19/38/19/45/AA/_4/10/10/0-/41/08/99/19381945AA_410100-410899/CC19381945AA_410100-410899.0364b.jpg"
  ],
  "recordUrl": "https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/detailed-record/card_catalog_CC19381945AA_410100-410899.0364",
  "relevanceScore": 85.566795
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$5e-05	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
Copyright record (apify-default-dataset-item)	$0.05	Single result in the default dataset.

Pay-per-event: you pay only for what the run delivers. A run that delivers nothing bills no result events (only the actor-start event, when the actor defines one). Example: a run that delivers 100 results costs 100 × $0.05 = $5.00 plus the start fee.

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⏰ Run this as a copyright watch (recommended)

Every IP registry actor is a monitoring subscription, not a one-shot lookup. Schedule a weekly sweep and catch new filings as they land:

{
  "query": "claimant name",
  "limit": 100
}

Weekly cron (0 8 * * 1) turns this into an always-on copyright watch.

📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per record (full output has 6 fields):

• registration_number — Registration number
• title — Title
• claimant — Claimant
• registration_date — Registration date
• type — Type
• copyright_url — Copyright url

Pricing: $0.05 per record (Pay-Per-Event) — about 20 per $1. Actor start fee $5e-05 per run. Live prices are in the Pricing table below.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and run US Copyright Office registration records on demand.

Sample agent prompt:

Search US copyright registrations by claimant and return registration dates.

Agentic payments (x402): Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

🔗 Related IP actors

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IP agent front door: Patents & Trademarks IP MCP

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Data from public intellectual-property registries.