Turn every leak into $30,000 of collectable damages.

Federal copyright registration of your content with the US Copyright Office. We handle the entire filing process on your behalf. You upload the works and provide the metadata, we submit the paperwork, and the USCO issues your certificate. Once registered, every DMCA takedown notice you send about that content gains the ability to claim statutory damages up to $30,000 per infringement (or $150,000 if willful). That completely changes the conversation with leak sites and individual leakers.

You automatically own the copyright to anything you create. That's true. But to sue for STATUTORY damages under 17 U.S.C. § 504(c), the work must be registered with the US Copyright Office BEFORE the infringement occurs (or within 3 months of first publication). Without registration, you can only sue for actual damages, which are extremely hard to prove and often not worth pursuing. With registration, you have automatic access to a $750-$30,000 damages range that a court sets. That's the difference between 'please stop' and 'pay me.' For a deeper walkthrough of exactly how this changes DMCA leverage plus real ROI math, see our full guide: [Copyright Registration for Creators: The $30,000 Legal Weapon Almost No One Uses](/articles/copyright-registration-creators-2026-guide).

USCO offers a special filing type called Group Registration for Published Photographs (GRPPH) that lets you register up to 750 photos in a single filing for one flat USCO fee. All photos must share the same author and calendar year of first publication. This is the killer product for creators with existing photo libraries. A photographer with 500 photos can register the entire library for $299 total. Same statutory damages protection per photo as an individual registration.

No. We file under a pseudonymous registration, which means your stage name appears on the public USCO record and your real name is submitted privately (required for the filing to be legally valid) but never shown to third parties. This is the standard filing path for adult content creators and is fully supported by USCO.

We file with USCO within 5 business days of your upload. USCO's own processing time is 3-9 months before they issue the certificate, and that's outside our control. IMPORTANT: your copyright protection begins the moment we file, not when the certificate arrives. Every DMCA you send between filing and certificate issuance can already invoke statutory damages.

Rare, but it happens (~15% of first-time filings). Usually it's a metadata issue we can fix and refile. If we can't get it registered for any reason on our end, we refund your Privly fee and refile at no extra cost. Genuine USCO-side rejection (e.g., work doesn't qualify for copyright) is refunded.

Yes, and you should. Registration protects you against FUTURE infringement, including future leaks and reuploads of already-leaked content. It also strengthens your position against ongoing distribution. But note: to claim statutory damages against a SPECIFIC prior infringement, the work must have been registered before that infringement occurred. So registration protects against everything that happens from filing day forward.

No. Copyright Registration is a one-off product. Anyone can buy it, including creators who've never heard of Privly before. If you ARE a Privly subscriber, registered works integrate automatically with your DMCA workflow: every takedown notice we send about a registered work carries a statutory damages threat. Not a subscriber? You can still register, and every takedown you file yourself gains the same legal firepower.