US Copyright Records Search — Registration Data API

US Copyright Records Search

US Copyright Records Search is a NexGenData tool on Apify that returns registrations with title, author, claimant, work type and dates from the US Copyright Office.

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

Search: a multi-word query is searched as an exact phrase by default (exactPhrase), so "Taylor Swift" returns records naming Taylor Swift rather than any record containing "Taylor" or "Swift". Turn exactPhrase off for any-word matching.

Proxy: this actor uses Apify residential proxy because the US Copyright Office public records site requires it. Residential proxy costs more: Apify bills residential traffic to you per GB.

📊 Sample Output

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

🧾 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

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 25 fields):

• allTitles — All Titles
• applicationDate — Application Date
• authors — Authors
• claimants — Claimants
• controlNumber — Control Number
• copyrightNumberForDisplay — Copyright Number For Display
• depositReceivedDate — Deposit Received Date
• displayNames — Display Names
• firstPublishedDate — First Published Date
• imageUrls — Image Urls
• numberOfPages — Number Of Pages
• publicRecordsId — Public Records Id
• recordUrl — Record Url
• recordationDate — Recordation Date
• recordationItemType — Recordation Item Type
• recordationNumber — Recordation Number
• registrationClass — Registration Class
• registrationDate — Registration Date
• registrationNumber — Registration Number
• registrationStatus — Registration Status
• relevanceScore — Relevance Score
• systemOfOrigin — System Of Origin
• title — Title
• typeOfRecord — Type Of Record
• typeOfWork — Type Of Work

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.

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Data from public intellectual-property registries.