9th Cir. Model Jury Instr. (Civil) 17.7

(17 U.S.C. § 410(c))

A copyright owner may obtain a certificate of registration from the Copyright Office.

The evidence in this case includes Exhibit ___, a certificate of copyright registration from the Copyright Office. If you find that this certificate was made [before or] within five years after first publication of the plaintiff [name]’s work, you must presume that there is a valid copyright in [identify the work in question] and presume to be true the facts stated in the certificate including [state specifics of the certificate relevant to the case, e.g., that plaintiff’s work is the original and copyrightable work of the author and that the plaintiff owns the copyright in that work], which I explain in Instructions [insert instruction numbers relevant to elements of plaintiff’s burden]. The defendant [name] has the burden of disproving these facts.

If you find that the evidence presented by [state the name of defendant(s)] disproves either the validity of the copyright or any of the facts stated in the registration certificate, you may find that [state the name of plaintiff(s)] has failed to show ownership of a copyrightable work.