IAAL: In the US, Copyright can be registered under a pseudonym, and you do not have to give your real name, ever. On the forms they have, there is a space you

IAAL: In the US, Copyright can be registered under a pseudonym, and you do not have to give your real name, ever. On the forms they have, there is a space you can fill out for claimant name, and one for author name. There is also a pseudonym checkbox. They will happily let you register it only in the name of the pseudonym. See: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl101.pdf http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl101.pdf For more interesting fun, read the last sentence of that PDF, where it goes on to explain that you get different years of protection for distributing under a pseudonym vs if your identity is revealed.