Authors Alliance submitted a comment to the US Copyright Office in response to its proposed fee schedule (Docket No. 2026–2). We focus our comment on two things: (1) commending the Office for imposing heavier fee increases on corporate users—such as those registering large photographic and non-photographic databases, and (2) urging the Office to stay true to its stated policy goals of incentivizing creativity by not hiking up the price of recording termination notice.   Copyright termination of transfer is a statutory right under Section 203 and Section 304 of the 1976 Copyright Act. It allows authors to reclaim ownership of works…