On June 27, 2013, the US Copyright Office issued an interim final rule amending its regulations to establish a new registration option allowing an individual author to register a single work via the Copyright Office's electronic registration system. For the same price as a standard electronic application, this single application will permit individual authors (or single claimants/owners) to electronically register a single work (such as a single song or photograph) so long as it is not a work made for hire or a work where the author has transferred ownership to the claimant/owner. A third party may also send in a claim on behalf of an author if the third party is listed as the correspondent and the work otherwise meets the single application criteria.

The single application registration will be available on June 28, 2013, and the Copyright Office is accepting public comments on its implementation until August 28, 2013.