US Copyright Office Records Scraper

Search the U.S. Copyright Office public catalog — more than 8 million copyright registrations and recordations — by owner, author, work title, or record number, and get back clean, structured data. Registrations tell you who owns the copyright in a song, film, book, photograph, software program or sound recording. Recordations expose the chain of title: assignments, transfers, security interests and mergers, with the parties on each side of the deal.

No account, no API key. Filter by record type, registration class, type of work, name and year, then export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

A real registration result

Here is one real record, with every field the actor returns:

{
  "recordType": "registration",
  "copyrightNumber": "PA0001208965",
  "registrationNumber": "PA0001208965",
  "title": "Beyonce interlude ; Daddy.",
  "primaryTitles": ["Beyonce interlude ; Daddy."],
  "otherTitles": ["Daddy"],
  "registrationClass": "PA",
  "registrationClassLabel": "Performing arts work",
  "typeOfWork": "music",
  "typeOfWorkLabel": "Music",
  "registrationStatus": "published",
  "authors": ["Knowles, Beyonce", "Beyonce"],
  "authorStatement": ["words & music: Beyonce Knowles."],
  "claimants": ["Hitco Music Publishing, LLC (d.b.a. Hitco South), Beyonce Publishing"],
  "publishers": [],
  "representativeDate": "2003-09-05",
  "registrationDate": "2003-09-05",
  "publicationDate": "2003-06-24",
  "creationDate": "2003",
  "largerWork": ["Dangerously in love. — Columbia CK 86386, c2003."],
  "notes": ["2nd song is hidden track.", "Performed by Beyonce."],
  "controlNumber": "11996667",
  "systemOfOrigin": "voyager",
  "detailUrl": "https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/detailed-record/voyager_11996667",
  "source": "U.S. Copyright Office public records (CPRS)"
}

A real recordation result (chain of title)

Recordations show recorded transfers. This one is a recorded assignment of the film project The Cure to Netflix:

{
  "recordType": "recordation",
  "copyrightNumber": "V15047D500",
  "recordationNumber": "V15047D500",
  "title": "The Cure ;Project.",
  "recordationItemType": "Assignment",
  "firstParty": ["Guacamole Airlines LLC", "Ministry of Arts and Interrogation, LLC"],
  "secondParty": ["Netflix Entertainment, LLC"],
  "numberOfTitles": 1,
  "numberOfPages": "1",
  "executionDate": "04Aug26",
  "recordationDate": "2026-08-11",
  "representativeDate": "2026-08-11",
  "notes": ["Short Form Assignment."],
  "serviceRequestNumber": "58045",
  "detailUrl": "https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/detailed-record/rmm_voyager_V01504750000000",
  "source": "U.S. Copyright Office public records (CPRS)"
}

What you can search

• Owner / author / party name — a copyright claimant (owner), author, publisher, or a party to a recorded transfer. Each name runs as its own phrase search, e.g. Netflix, Sony Music, Taylor Swift.
• Work title — e.g. Stranger Things, The Great Gatsby.
• Copyright / registration / recordation number — exact lookups such as PA0001208965 or V15046D767.
• Advanced search terms — quoted phrases, boolean AND / OR, - exclusion and * wildcards, e.g. "walt disney" AND pixar.

Leave every search box empty to browse the newest records, filtered only by the options below.

Filters

• Record type — all records, registrations only, or recordations only (assignments and transfers).
• Registration class — TX (literary / software), PA (performing arts: music, film, drama), VA (visual arts), SR (sound recordings), SE (serials), PR (preregistration), RE (renewals).
• Type of work — music, sound_recording, motion_picture, computer_file, text, visual_material, serial, and more.
• Name contains — tighten a broad title search to a specific owner.
• Year from / to — filter by the record's date.
• Sort by — relevance, newest first, oldest first, or title A–Z.

Fields returned

Titles (primary and alternate), copyright / registration / recordation number, registration class and type of work, status, authors, claimants (owners), publishers, and for recordations the document type and first / second parties (assignor and assignee), number of titles and pages, and execution date. Plus registration, publication, creation and recordation dates, larger-work context, catalog notes, service request and control numbers, and a direct link to the official public record.

Example uses

• Rights clearance & licensing — find who owns the copyright in a work before you license, sample or adapt it, and reach the right claimant.
• IP due diligence & M&A — trace chain of title through recorded assignments, mergers and security interests when a catalog changes hands.
• Music, film & publishing intelligence — monitor newly registered works and recorded deals by studio, label or publisher.
• Brand & anti-piracy — build an evidence trail of registrations for enforcement.
• Lead generation — surface active claimants, publishers and production companies as sales targets.

Billing

Pay per result. You are charged only for records the actor delivers; failed runs and records filtered out by your options are never charged. Free Apify plans return up to 10 records per run.

Notes

• Data is the public record of the U.S. Copyright Office (registrations from 1978 onward plus earlier recorded documents and card-catalog entries).
• Very broad searches are capped at the first 20,000 matches; narrow with a name, title or the filters above for complete coverage of a slice.