What are the steps that you make to copyright your own music?
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Record your music on a CD. Also write down on paper all the music. If you dont know how to write get someone to write it. Go to the copyright registration office and get an application form. Fill it and submit your documents along with some fees. Your work will be copyrighted within 3 months and then you are free to broadcast your work. My personal experience in this field taught me that copyrights dont help much unless they are done by a record label. An individual is too weak to sue a big company.
826216
You can't. \nDownloading free music is almost always illegal. Get a job and buy the music you want. People don't make and record the music for fun, they do it for the money. Stop stealing, get some morals, and become a person who contributes to society, instead of leeching off of it.
968392
Do not listen to those other people in what they responded. They have no clue. First of all, if it is a product (not like music etc..) you may want to seek PATENT protection, not copyright protection. Go get a couple hundred bucks and go speak to a PATENT ATTORNEY. You are going to have to pay for a professional opinion, one way or another.
1005344
Do it the illegal way, use Limewire.\n\nhahahaha.
889449
with folk songs, the words are likely to have been passed down the generations orally, so there won't be an actual author to hold the copyright.\n\nI suppose you could try entering a phrase from each song into a search engine and see if it comes up with an author, but it'll be very time consuming.\n\nContact a folk club in your area and see if they have any ideas!
832691
Type in U. S. Copyright Office.\nGet a kit from them.
467860
You don't need an attorney to grant permission to use your song.  Just write a letter granting non-exclusive permission for the organization in question to use the song, and specify the nature of how it will be used.\n\nYou should specify in the letter that the material should be credited to you, no changes should be made without your specific permission, and that the use is limited to the specific grant.
808421
Although you can copyright via the net (or get the forms through sites like: http://www.copyright.gov/forms I believe it would be in your best interest to call the copyright office at: (202) 707-3000 and have Form “PA” (performing arts), sent directly to you. For years, some people have even believed that “mailing the song to yourself” is protection of some kind. This is NOT the case (nor has it ever been). You have stated the possibility that: “I believe that the act of just post your song here is proof of authership, but does it establish ownership and what of copyright.” This is not the case either. Who is to say that one didn’t steal the song and then “post” it before the original writer? \n\nYour best bet is to simply copyright the song in a legal fashion…therefore avoiding problems down the road. \n\nA “song” is an “asset” (just like a home or a vehicle), but it is referred to as an “intellectual asset”. Just as a “deed” is to a home or a “title” is to a car…the “copyright” establishes ownership to your “intellectual asset” (that being a song). There are no tricks nor ways around it. \n\nFurther, a “copyright” does not get you “money”, but merely establishes ownership. If and when your song is “published” and “sells”, you will receive money from the publisher (whether the publisher is you or some outside entity). \n\nIn the US, if you publish material that's not registered, you can be assessed a $500 (or is it $250) fine. I assume this would only come up if you tried to sue someone. \n\nIn the US, if you sue, you have to register to sue. If you don't register until after the violation, you aren't entitled to "statutory damages and attorneys' fees", only "actual damages".\n\nAll of the information you need can be found in ONE book (which is considered to be the “bible” of the recording industry. It is called: “This Business of Music” by Krasilovsky & Shemel and published by “Billboard Books”. You can find it here at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index%3Dstripbooks%26field-keywords%3Dthis%20business%20of%20music%26results-process%3Ddefault%26dispatch%3Dsearch/ref%3Dpd%5Fsl%5Faw%5Ftops-1%5Fstripbooks%5F4345336%5F2/102-1151058-1207346 or at any major bookstore. \n\nThis book includes “all” possible information regarding the record industry (contracts and all) in great detail. This book is not a: “how to” but rather a: “what is”. I seriously recommend this specific book. It may be a bit difficult to understand at first, but it DOES encompass “all”. \n\nI hope that answers some of your questions.
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you don't, that's illegal if you are not the owner of the music. If you are, the law allows you to make copies for personal use. Try searching the internet, there are tons of software programs out there that you can download for free or you can buy that will do it.
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music.myspace.com\n\nGo there and find your song. Then follow the simple instructions to upload it.
69854
Using someone's written work product as your own.
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To *register* a copyright (technically, its copywritten when you write it), you send a copy of the work (strips, book, whatever) along with a form and $45 to the U.S. Copyright Office.\n\nTrademarks are a bit more complicated (not to mention expensive).  You generally have to show that you've used whatever you're trademarking in commerce, and send samples in.\n\nThe websites of the Copyright and Patent & Trademark Offices are below - both have good FAQ's on when you do and don't have to register your work.
147143
Interesting question.\n\nFirst. If the music is copyrighted, and 99.9% of music is, you can't. I should say you shouldn't unless you want to be shut down.\n\nOther than that try Geocities.
968180
This is a topic you may get many different answers on.\nYou can copyright the work yourself, but it's generally unnecessary. As soon as you write it, it becomes your intellectual property, meaning you already have a copyright on it.\n\nLook in to the different copyright laws, and if you're not comfortable assuming it's already your property, then go ahead and have it registered.
1037664
IF you own the rights to the images, ie you took them and they are yours. You will then need to find music from an unsigned artist, and get their permission to use their music ..
609864
Either they buy the rights (usually from the record label) or the song is public domain.  There's no other legal way.
384751
You can by a used DAT player (or any other recording device) relatively cheap on the Internet or at a music store. From there post your music on the Internet. Create accounts on pages like MySpace.com or other web communities. Talk about your music and tell them that they can download your music for free. IF you get a good buzz going a record producer will eventually contact you.