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| From | "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@mindspring.com> |
| Subject | Re: Copyright |
| Date | Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:18:31 -0400 |
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Great discussion, this one.
For what it's worth, you can also copyright songs en masse by sending the
Library of Congress' copyright office a cassette with all your songs on it,
labelling it, "Collected Works," and then enumerating each song on the
copyright application.
That way you can avoid the $30 x 8 or $30 x 10 on an LP that it might cost
to copyright each song individually, and still retain rights to each tune.
While the "sending a letter to yourself" method is probably just as
effective, I prefer having the imprimatur of a federal agency to justify my
claim to copyright on my songs.
John Micek.
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John L. Micek
State Government Reporter
The Morning Call
Harrisburg, Pa.
----- Original Message -----
From: <ArthurBang2@aol.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: Copyright
> In a message dated 9/8/2003 10:53:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> JIMMYPRELL@aol.com writes:
> It's about having the earliest dated sample of the song. The band that
> actually creates the song would have earlier proof, if they bothered to
take similar
> precautions. But more to the point, if it's YOUR SONG, then nobody is
going
> to have an earlier date, so you'd be protected.
> Thanks for the info everybody.. Obviously I've heard about the "put the
> CD in an envelope and mail it to yourself" version for years. Everything
> on the internet says that every song you write should be registered with
> the Library Of Congress, to be SAFE. It costs something like $30 per
song
> and they say that's what most people do. At least most people on
> Google it seems :) ..
>
> The only thing I'd be worried about is hearing something I'd written turn
> up in a movie or on TV and then trying to convince everyone that I was the
> one who wrote it.
>
> Arthur
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