diff --git a/js/components/ascribe_buttons/form_submit_button.js b/js/components/ascribe_buttons/form_submit_button.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..087061d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/js/components/ascribe_buttons/form_submit_button.js
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+'use strict';
+
+import React from 'react/addons';
+
+const { string, object } = React.PropTypes;
+
+/**
+ * Originally, this button was introduced for `RegisterPieceForm`.
+ * The underlying problem that lead to the implementation was that multiple `InputFineuploader`s
+ * where displayed in one form.
+ * For the form's submit button always to represent an applicable state we had to save
+ * the ready states of the multiple uploaders in `RegisterPieceForm`.
+ * However, on each invocation of `this.setState`, we were re-rendering the form again,
+ * which caused (if the user had the file-selector open) a detachment between user input and
+ * displayed page.
+ *
+ * This button helps to outsource the state of the form's readiness to another component,
+ * to solve the problem.
+ */
+const FormSubmitButton = React.createClass({
+    propTypes: {
+        defaultReadyStates: object.isRequired,
+        label: string.isRequired
+    },
+
+    getInitialState() {
+        return {
+            readyStates: this.props.defaultReadyStates
+        };
+    },
+
+    setReadyStateForKey(key, state) {
+        const readyStates = React.addons.update(this.state.readyStates, { [key]: { $set: state } });
+        this.setState({ readyStates });
+    },
+
+    render() {
+        const { label } = this.props;
+        const { readyStates } = this.state;
+
+        // Reduce all readyStates to a single boolean
+        const ready = Object.keys(readyStates)
+                            .reduce((defaultState, stateKey) => {
+                                return defaultState && readyStates[stateKey];
+                            }, true);
+
+        return (
+            <button
+                type="submit"
+                className="btn btn-default btn-wide"
+                disabled={!ready}>
+                {label}
+            </button>
+        );
+    }
+});
+
+export default FormSubmitButton;
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diff --git a/js/components/ascribe_forms/form_register_piece.js b/js/components/ascribe_forms/form_register_piece.js
index 39dd925d..76bbd68e 100644
--- a/js/components/ascribe_forms/form_register_piece.js
+++ b/js/components/ascribe_forms/form_register_piece.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import Form from './form';
 import Property from './property';
 import InputFineUploader from './input_fineuploader';
 import UploadButton from '../ascribe_uploader/ascribe_upload_button/upload_button';
+import FormSubmitButton from '../ascribe_buttons/form_submit_button';
 
 import ApiUrls from '../../constants/api_urls';
 import AppConstants from '../../constants/application_constants';
@@ -77,9 +78,9 @@ let RegisterPieceForm = React.createClass({
      */
     setIsUploadReady(uploaderKey) {
         return (isUploadReady) => {
-            this.setState({
-                [uploaderKey]: isUploadReady
-            });
+            // See documentation of `FormSubmitButton` for more detailed information
+            // on this.
+            this.refs.submitButton.setReadyStateForKey(uploaderKey, isUploadReady);
         };
     },
 
@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ let RegisterPieceForm = React.createClass({
         if(validFiles.length > 0) {
             const { type: mimeType } = validFiles[0];
             const mimeSubType = mimeType && mimeType.split('/').length ? mimeType.split('/')[1]
-                                                                         : 'unknown';
+                                                                       : 'unknown';
             const thumbnailKeyDialogExpanded = AppConstants.supportedThumbnailFileFormats.indexOf(mimeSubType) === -1;
             this.setState({ thumbnailKeyDialogExpanded });
         } else {
@@ -122,8 +123,6 @@ let RegisterPieceForm = React.createClass({
                 children,
                 enableLocalHashing } = this.props;
         const { currentUser,
-                digitalWorkKeyReady,
-                thumbnailKeyReady,
                 thumbnailKeyDialogExpanded } = this.state;
 
         const profileHashLocally = currentUser && currentUser.profile ? currentUser.profile.hash_locally : false;
@@ -137,12 +136,13 @@ let RegisterPieceForm = React.createClass({
                 url={ApiUrls.pieces_list}
                 handleSuccess={handleSuccess}
                 buttons={
-                    <button
-                        type="submit"
-                        className="btn btn-default btn-wide"
-                        disabled={!(digitalWorkKeyReady && thumbnailKeyReady)}>
-                        {submitMessage}
-                    </button>
+                    <FormSubmitButton
+                        ref="submitButton"
+                        defaultReadyStates={{
+                            digitalWorkKeyReady: false,
+                            thumbnailKeyReady: true
+                        }}
+                        label={submitMessage}/>
                 }
                 spinner={
                     <span className="btn btn-default btn-wide btn-spinner">