From Government Computer News:

The U.S. Copyright Office is opening a new online portal intended to help the office move from a paper-based environment to electronic processing.

The office, a part of the Library of Congress, handles about 550,000 copyright claims annually. Beginning July 1, anyone will be able to use the Electronic Copyright Office (eCO) portal to submit basic claims and copyright applications electronically, make online payments and upload works being registered. Those submitting hard copies of the registered material can generate and print shipping labels. 

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About time
written by Kevin Reeverts, July 11, 2008

I remember as a songwriter trying to work around the kinks of copyrighting my lyrics, and everybody telling me the long process, and how it would be easier to just send it to myself... and than lawyers advising me not to send it to myself for it would not hold up in court. This makes everything a lot easier, and my advice to all is, never put all your work on a flash drive before it has been copyrighted... I had it stolen before and hopefully now with the quicker time, I can make sure nobody can use them.