Copyrights registered on artistic works in the U.S. 2013

This graph depicts the number of copyrights registered on artistic works at the U.S. copyright office from 1999 to 2013. In 2003, 534,122 registrations were made.

Annual copyrights registered on artistic works in the United States from 1999 to 2013 (in 1,000s)*

Characteristic	Copyrights registered in thousands
2013	496.6
2012	670
2011	509.91
2010	636.54
2009	382.09
2008	232.91
2007	526.38
2006	520.91
2005	531.72
2004	661.47
2003	534.12
2002	521.04
2001	601.66
2000	515.61
1999	594.5

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April 2016

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United States

Survey time period

1999 to 2013

Supplementary notes

* Copyrights registered at the U.S. Copyright Office on artistic work which may include literary, dramatic, artistic and certain other intellectual works.
Figure for 2011 is nto available.
The data have been rounded to provide better understanding of the statistics.
The figures for before 2002 come from a previous National Arts Index edition.

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