How To Copyright Your Music To Protect Your Future
Royalties

Many musicians confuse copyrighting music with
registering music; these are two different things.
According to the law in the United
States, once you have written or recorded your music
in a permanent form, it is automatically copyrighted.

Of course, it might help to first understand what it
means to copyright music. A copyright is a certain
legal protection that is offered to
those who compose creative works, whether those works
are art, music, or the written word. The U. S.
Constitution states there are
limits one can place on the amount of time the work is
exclusively protected.

If you copyright music, this means you (and you alone)
have the right to use your work or allow others to use
your work. You also have

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