This is more than a bureaucratic ledger. It is a snapshot of American visual culture at a pivotal moment, capturing which artworks, illustrations, photographs, and prints creators and companies chose to protect under copyright law during a twelve-year span that saw the rise of pop art, the expansion of mass media, and the maturation of modern art markets. The entries here, organized by claimant name and organized chronologically, read like an unofficial census of the era's most contested creative properties. You will find major studios like Disney, scientific publishers, printing houses, and individual artists all navigating the same legal question: what is worth protecting, and for how long? The inclusion of both famous names and lesser-known claimants paints a full picture of who owned what in the American art world of the 1960s and 70s. For art historians, copyright researchers, and anyone fascinated by the intersection of law and creativity, these pages offer something rare: primary evidence of how artists, studios, and publishers valued their work and protected their interests.
