How to Copyright Your Music | Copyright Tips for Musicians

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00:00 Intro
00:43 Copyright basics
02:00 What is and isn’t protected by copyrights?
02:37 Steps in getting a copyright registration for music
05:38 Publishing copyright vs master copyright
06:00 Forms to use for copyright registration
08:20 copyright process
10:00 Outro

[ancientwatchmanTV]

Very informative! Thank you very much!! 🎉

[ThisDeservesTheMusic]

Thank you for this info! It was very helpful

[octavioguval]

Thank you for all your help. This is a very valuable information that every songwriter will appreciate.
I still have a question and I would like that you or maybe someone else clarify me: I just wrote another "Ave Maria", the fact is that there are many composers that have written one or more than one of them. The most famous and beautiful are F. Shubert's, Bach - Gounod and Vavilov (or Caccini) among others. There are more than 90 registered along the years 1400s to 2000s. Almost all of them or many of them have practically the same lyrics which is virtually the Salve (Hail Mary prayer). My lyric's is the same as the prayer too, but not exactly and it has some differences, basically in the order of the words and also it have extras. My question is: - Do I have to register this composition together with the lyrics o I can not register the lyrics because is very similar to the others. Any way the lyrics of an Ave Maria should be the Hail Mary prayer, like all the others, but I don't know if I have to register with it or not. Thank you Very much one more time. God bless you for helping others blindly.

[ube-s]

I did my own. There are a lot of help on YouTube. They show with actual form what to press the actual application.
But like she says, if you don't have time for all this get your lawyer to do it for you.

[margaritacox]

Thanks! Very informative! After the form is submitted, can you publish right after or do you need to wait until copyrights have been granted?

[rossclark]

Thank You your information was very helpful for a want are be Song writer Ross Clark thanks you put in the effort letting people who are not so well of, can't afford a lawyer. Just saying why you have been so helpful. thanks again.

[anemonaloco]

what about the album art? do i need a different or additional form for that?

[sohailsamson]

Great information. Thank you. I transcript Christian Punjabi/Urdu songs of other composers and lyricists, but I also mention their names on the sheets. I also create preludes and intervals for them. Should I still need to copyright my material? Please advise. Thank you

[octavioguval]

Hi!
I am Octavio again.
I still have the same question that I think it may be important at any time one wants to register a composition.
In short:
I need to know if I have to copyright the lyrics of my work or not.
Specifics for this case:
I am writing an “Ave Maria” and one thing in common to all Ave Marias is that the lyrics is the “salve” (Hail Mary Prayer) with some differences between one to another of those compositions.
My Ave Maria have differences as well but at the end is more or less the same thing.
I don’t know if I have to copyright it or not or even if I can copyright it or not.
I only need a little more of information about this
Thank you very much and God bless you!
Octavio Guval

[studiosofclinton]

Does the uploading to a distribution site, email, or an online repository count as a timestamp record?

[scottfishkind]

I was curious about getting some clarity on when you say published.

If a final recording for release is completed is that considered published even if it was self funded and released both through streaming services and hardcopy CDs?

[RRRSoulEvan]

Hey I have a question I’m copyrighting my music as a group of unpublished works but theirs one thing bugging me. What if I have one song already published part of the unpublished works because out of all of them their is one that’s on Spotify and major platforms but the rest is not do I have to separate that as publish works or it doesn’t matter because it’ll still be protected?

[sJayOfficial]

Hi,

I am a songwriter who composes the music, writes the lyrics, writes & sings the melodies, and arranges all the chords of my songs. I record simple piano and vocal performances of my completed songs to copyright. I am not technically producing my songs, but instead, I am just recording them in their simplest form. Eventually, the songs will be produced properly by either myself or another artist.

My question to you is this:

Since my songs are structurally complete recorded piano & vocal works, would these songs fall under a (SR) sound recording copyright or a (PA) performing arts copyright?

Lastly, would the copyrights need to be renewed or updated once the songs were properly produced to a finished mastered work?


Thank you 🎶 🎵
80sJay

[spatialoptic]

I’m sorry but what is the difference between published and unpublished?

[YinYangDPW]

For "registered" copyrights all this is true. But I've always been under the impression that the mere creation and usage of "copyrightable" material created an automatic level of copyright ownership, rights, and protection whether "registered" or not.

I think it's called common law copyright.

Is this not true ?