For studios and creators who pursue piracy claims

The pirate copied it on release day. Was it registered?

Repertoire lists every title with its first-publication date and the three-month registration deadline for statutory damages, batches unpublished titles ten at a time into group filings — and will not let a title be released until it is in a filed application.

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The problem

Unregistered, the damages are whatever you can prove.

US copyright law gives no statutory damages and no attorney’s fees for infringement of an unpublished work begun before it was registered, or of a published work begun before registration — unless it was registered within three months of first publication. A studio that registers nothing is left chasing pirates for actual damages it can rarely show.

3 months

A published work keeps statutory damages from its first day only if it is registered within three months of first publication.

17 U.S.C. 412 →

$85

registers a group of up to ten unpublished works. One work on its own is $65 on the standard application.

U.S. Copyright Office fees →

Before

For an unpublished work, infringement begun before registration gets no statutory damages at all.

17 U.S.C. 412 →

Will not release a title that is not filed.

Not a reminder. Released today refuses while the title is in no filed application. A group filing is refused unless it is one to ten titles, all unpublished, all one type, one author and one claimant. There is no override.

How it works

Shoot, file, release

Add each title as it is made

Title, type of work, author and claimant, and the day it is due out.

File ten at a time

Tick up to ten unpublished titles of one type and file them as one group. Repertoire checks the batch against the group rules before you pay.

Release, covered

A filed title can go out, covered from its filing date. Older titles already out get their three-month deadline and a warning before it passes.

What it will never do

It keeps the dates. The Copyright Office keeps the works.

Repertoire holds titles and references — nothing anybody could pirate from it.

No copies of works.The deposit goes to the Copyright Office, one file per work. Nothing is uploaded here.

No performers’ details.Author and claimant as the application names them. Nothing more.

It does not file.You file in the Office’s own system and type the service request number here.

It never touches a payment.The fee for Repertoire is flat and it is for software.

Pricing

Priced per studio, flat

However many titles you make.

Studio

$15/month

One studio or creator.

Title catalogue with deadlines
Group filing builder
Release gate, no override

Most studios

Studio plus

$25/month

A busy release schedule.

Everything in Studio
Back-catalogue deadline view
Export for your lawyer

Network

$59/month

Several studios or claimants under one owner.

Everything in Studio plus
One copy for each claimant
Priority support

Flat fee, billed monthly. Never per title. Your bank statement says Repertoire Software. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.

Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor — nobody we had to apply to and nobody who can close the account. The button takes you straight to it. Give your email address there — that is where your key is sent.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

Why can’t I release a title before filing it?

Because the cheapest and safest moment is before release: as part of an unpublished group, at $85 for ten, every infringement from the first day qualifies. Once it is out, the group route is gone.

What about titles already published?

File them on their own. Repertoire shows each one’s three-month deadline; past it, registration still helps from then on.

Can scenes and photo sets go in one group?

No. A group is one type of work. Repertoire refuses the mix before you pay for it.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is a tracker that argues with you.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

Open the demo on release week

Last month’s eight scenes went in one $85 filing, and four are already out, covered from the first day. Six new scenes and a photo set are not filed, and the first scene is due out in eleven days. One older feature has twenty days left of its three months; another ran out in September.

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