I was wondering if i could get away with copyrighting one long ass continuous track. It will be consecutive beats with track markers included. That way I pay for one copyright. The reason, I've accumulated a lot of instrumentals that I think that will work in commercials, background tracks, jingles etc. I want to market them and send them out in the mail to various places...at the same time, I want to protect them. Will this work?
Copyrighting one long ass track?????
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you can copyright a cumliitive work but it is less safe for the person that owns the rights than to do it track by track for some reason. Copyright law is tricky though the big guys like in any legal battle always win and steal shit from little guys all the time. they have more money to invest into lawsuits and the little guy will end up losing cuz he doesnt have enough cash to defend himself in court
If it's various tracks, you're better off copyrighting all of them separately. Thing about markers is, when you have a CD with the tracks on it, you don't see those markers. You can put each track on a CD and copyright as a cumulative work like Jayda said. It could be as safe, but sometimes it's not because you basically copyright that specific collection.
It would usually hold up in court though because it's a piece of a copyrighted work. Lawyers or not, if the paperwork is there, it's there. The problem with a lot of cats is, they try to do the broke man's copyright, and that shit just doesn't hold up in court.
It would usually hold up in court though because it's a piece of a copyrighted work. Lawyers or not, if the paperwork is there, it's there. The problem with a lot of cats is, they try to do the broke man's copyright, and that shit just doesn't hold up in court.
I don't know who told you that but it's not true. There's absolutely nothing wrong with submitting a cd split into tracks for each beat on the cd and registering the whole thing as My Neato Beats Volume 1 or whatever.
Also, when there's a clear violation of copyright, lawyers line up to take the case without advance payment.
Also, when there's a clear violation of copyright, lawyers line up to take the case without advance payment.
You don't know how many people in the business have told me or my boys to do this. I laugh at 'em and tell 'em "Good luck with your future in music". People should have no problem paying money to protect their work, but too many cats are penny pinchers and looking for the "easy and cheap" way to do shit.
I tell newcomers "If it's important to you, pay the money and get the paperwork".
I tell newcomers "If it's important to you, pay the money and get the paperwork".
Yup. I did it by the album. Protects all lyrics, music and recording.
http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pw...4-zxFLuitVGbj8DqY5vTjP_vf&BROWSE=1&HC=1&SID=2
http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pw...4-zxFLuitVGbj8DqY5vTjP_vf&BROWSE=1&HC=1&SID=2
