Copyright

Should you decide to copyright your thesis or dissertation, you must include a separate copyright page. By adding a copyright notice that will be included in all copies you distribute, you have copyrighted your thesis or dissertation. See the Sample Copyright Page.

1. If you are a doctoral student, you may have the copyright registered for you by ProQuest/UMI. Along with the ProQuest/UMI agreement form, you will need to submit a certified U.S. Postal money order in the amount of $45 (copy, payable to ProQuest/UMI to cover the copyright fee and the cost of two positive microfilm copies which will be filed with the Copyright Office.
2. You may register the copyright yourself by submitting to the Registrar of Copyrights the appropriate application form, a filing fee and one or two copies of the work. In order to have full protection against infringement, this should be done as soon as possible. Information and forms can be obtained from the: Registrar of Copyrights, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20559.

Last Updated: October 9, 2009