US Copyright Office
The US Copyright Office is a government agency responsible for administering and enforcing copyright laws in the United States. The office is responsible for registering and documenting copyright claims, maintaining the public catalog of copyright records, providing bulk data downloads of registration records, and administering licensing programs. The Copyright Office provides open bulk datasets of approximately 22 million registration records and is modernizing its systems through the Enterprise Copyright System (ECS) program.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles US Copyright Office the way a machine reads it — 32 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — US Copyright Office scores 44.2/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile US Copyright Office
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for US Copyright Office. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 4
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Copyright Public Records System
The Copyright Public Records System (CPRS) provides access to U.S. copyright registration and recordation data with advanced search capabilities and improved interfaces. Replace...
Copyright Bulk Datasets
Bulk download of approximately 22 million U.S. copyright registration records from January 1, 1978 to June 27, 2025. Available in raw unparsed MARC, parsed CSV, and tabular CSV ...
Licensing Documents Search
Searchable directory of licensing documents including compulsory license statements of account, royalty payments, and statutory license records maintained by the Copyright Office.
DMCA Designated Agent Directory
Searchable directory of Online Service Providers (OSPs) that have registered DMCA designated agents with the U.S. Copyright Office per Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copy...
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Us Copyright Office Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 6
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Copyright Registration Bulk Data
Approximately 22 million copyright registration records from 1978 to present available for bulk download in MARC, parsed CSV, and tabular CSV formats across all copyright work c...
Copyright Public Records System (CPRS)
Advanced search system for copyright registration and recordation data, replacing the Online Public Catalog in June 2025.
Online Registration (eCO)
Electronic Copyright Office registration system for submitting new copyright registration applications online.
Licensing Documents Search
Searchable database of compulsory license statements of account and royalty payments filed with the Copyright Office.
DMCA Designated Agent Directory
Directory of online service providers that have registered DMCA designated agents per Section 512 of the DMCA.
Enterprise Copyright System Modernization
Ongoing modernization of all Copyright Office IT systems into a unified, interconnected digital infrastructure.
Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Us Copyright Office Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
US Copyright Office API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 3
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
JSON Structure 3
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Us Copyright Office Dmca Agent Structure
JSON STRUCTUREUs Copyright Office Recordation Structure
JSON STRUCTUREUs Copyright Office Registration Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 3
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Use Cases 5
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Copyright Research and Due Diligence
Searching copyright records to determine ownership, registration status, and rights information for works before licensing or use.
Bulk Data Analysis and Research
Downloading bulk copyright registration datasets for academic research, legal analysis, or statistical studies of copyright registration trends.
DMCA Compliance
Looking up DMCA designated agents for online service providers to send takedown notices per Section 512 requirements.
Licensing Compliance Verification
Searching licensing documents to verify statutory license compliance and royalty payment records.
Orphan Works Identification
Using copyright records to research ownership of works when rights holders cannot be identified or located.
Integrations 2
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Library of Congress
Copyright Office is a department of the Library of Congress; data integrates with LC catalog systems and MARC format records.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Collaborates with USPTO on intellectual property policy, including joint AI and copyright/patent studies.
Resources
Every other property we hold for US Copyright Office — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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