During the year the Copyright Office received 614,235 new claims to copyright, which covered more than a million works. It registered 661,469 claims. The office received more than 23,000 full electronic claims for textual works and music. The office recorded 14,979 documents covering more than 470,000 titles. The copyright public record, available for searching online, grew with the cataloging of 567,607 registrations and the indexing of thousands of parties and titles of works contained in documents recorded. The office also continued major initiatives to reengineer its core business processes and use information technology to increase the efficiency of operations and the timeliness of public services.
The Americana collections of the Library of Congress have been created largely through the copyright system. The Copyright Office annually transfers to the Library about 1 million deposit copies in all formats. In 2004 the Copyright Office forwarded 1,038,561 copies of works with a net worth of $36,456,888 to the Library of Congress, including 523,743 items that were received from publishers under the mandatory deposit provisions of the copyright law.
