Ive got some new original stuff ive been working on that im excited about and wanted some opinions on it...
I wanted to copyright my music, but it seems to cost $59 dollars to copyright it..and takes up to 6 weeks to hear back from them
Where does everyone get their stuff copyrighted and how much do you pay?
also is there any place that does it faster than 6 weeks and $59 dollars is too much if you ask me
Do you really need to copyright it?
I mean how many people are going to listen to this?
no... but it never hurts to be safe
i see other people on here that have their stuff copyrighted
Good news:
You already own the copyright to your material. If there ever should be a situation where you need to prove you were first, then you can send a letter to yourself with the cd. Do that right away and don't open the letter, the post stamp will make this your piece of evidence.
The old fashioned way of doing it in other words!
PS I hope you will rock the world with this material.
You can copyright stuff easily. I tabbed out all of my songs as sheet music and put them in a big envelope that I had date stamped at the post office and I keep them with the owner of intellectual property at Loughborough University so if anybody copies my work I have proof of when I wrote the song. I have all the lyrics written on them also so that is copyright. Paying those places is conning you in a way as you don't need to do that. The fact you have recorded a song gives you ownership of that song as long as it isn't copied of course. Copyrights are only needed for big corporations with copyrighting names etc.
How does one deal with the issue of music becoming so global that at least someone has some form of "your" music? Remember the Satch incident (it was him right?) who sued Coldplay for the viva la vida song because it was the same chord progression/timing? I mean, I get that one can have the idea "first" and such, but the idea of protecting that first (unless people are using the same lyrics and everything) seems a little shaky...
I guess music is only really protected if it's a "hit"?
Thoughts?
Never thought about that really, but I'll have to copyright the songs on my forthcoming album
We have a local copyrights agency and its free to protect the songs..When I say protect it means that you label artist credits for it and deposit the song so after when song gets played on radio/tv you get royalties for it! Better to be safe then sorry..
Interesting info in this thread. I wonder if the law is the same in every country regarding copyrights though.
I wonder if music is posted in these forums since it is dated at the time of posting it would stand up in court...
I enjoyed reading this thread , lots of useful info in it !
I have a friend in my town who works in organization Bogdan mentioned in Serbia. From time to time I give him my recordings and he copyrights all the things. All you need to do is feel a form where you would describe style of your music and duration. You can go more into it and describe instrumentation, number of bars and whole bunch of other things if you want to as well.
Somebody told me when I was in USA of website that you can use that copyrights your material. You upload things online they give you contract to keep for your personal use if you ever need it. I think it was payed website - I will ask around see what info I can get on it
just found out about this place.... free copyrights
http://myfreecopyright.com/
this free site seems cool..... and free
I was wondering might be a daft question this but here goes.
What if you posted a track on this site for example. Would this prove your copyright or is this not valid? Because dates and entries can be tampered on computers?
Can someone put me straight.
You could always use one of the timestamping servers... they can do a special timestamp on a file... I won't go deep inside this, it was my master thesis
Hello boys! I believe that it is very important to register every realized song!
This post is very interesting!
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