i have a gift for writing songs right off the top of my  head, how do I get my work exposed , without piracy?
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you can still post the songs on sites like myspace, but make sure you copywrite them... poor man's way is to mail a copy of the song to yourself and don't open the envelope. having an unopened envelope is a binding form and when opened in front of a court in a case, then you have legal grounds.
97139
Stop stealing music. Pay for them.
45875
get yourself an agent, make a demo record, write letters to producers, record companies, etc. if you can get a demo tape and give it out and tell people, they will listen. its all about p.r.!
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There are quiet a few ways to get music off the Internet. I won't go into the legalities of all of them. Obviously, if you are getting someones copyrighted material without paying, then that's probably not legal. \n\nThere are services that you can use to get music that WILL pay the artists who created the songs. The most popular are probably...\n\nApple iTunes -> http://www.itunes.com\nNapster -> http://www.napster.com\nand even WalMart -> http://www.walmart.com/swap/SwapEntry.do?dslURL=/swap/LoadMain.do%3FmainCategoryId%3D2500\n\nAll of these services will sell you songs between .85 and $1.00 per song or so.\n\nThere are quite a few services advertised on Clickbank that make the promise that for a one time membership fee, you can download an unlimited number of songs. Here are those services. I cannot attest to how well they work, so research them by visiting them...\n\nUnlimited Download Center -> http://watersaffl.udc01.hop.clickbank.net?tid=YAHOOANS\nMovie Downloads.com -> http://watersaffl.movies01.hop.clickbank.net?tid=YAHOOANS\nUnlimited MP3 Music -> http://watersaffl.gamecity.hop.clickbank.net?tid=YAHOOANS\nHot MP3 Downloads -> http://watersaffl.mp3hot.hop.clickbank.net?tid=YAHOOANS\n\nI have had good luck finding music on BitTorrent sites. BitTorrent is an Internet protocol for moving very large files. It's not the same as P2P (limewire and such), but it relies on other users in the BitTorrent community leaving their music files available. I have often been frustrated by downloading a song or album only to find that after it downloads 95%, it stops because not enough BitTorrent seeders have kept the files available. The upside to BitTorrents are that they download extremely fast! \n\nYou'll need a BitTorrent client to download torrents. I use Azureus. It's a free and very nice client application that you can get here...\nhttp://azureus.sourceforge.net/\n\n\nYou'll also need a few BitTorrent tracker sites. Here are a few to get you started...\nTorrentSpy -> http://www.torrentspy.com/\nThe Pirates Bay -> http://thepiratebay.org/\nISO Hunt -> http://isohunt.com/\nMiniNova -> http://www.mininova.org\n\nFinally, I have had great luck finding unknown artists by using an NNTP News Server. NNTP is an old Bulletin Board type of protocol. NNTP means Network News Transport Protocol. But the NNTP community has evolved into about 50,000 different 'channels' that cover every imaginable subject and there is a way to 'encode' binary files to place them on these NNTP groups. For music, music is grouped into different 'genres'. For example, I download Jazz and Reggae from two different channels. It is not easy to find any particular song or artist, so I just download everything in a group and often find songs and artists that I've never heard of before.\n\nTo download music from NNTP groups, you'll need a News Reader. There are some free ones out there. I use this one...\nhttp://www.newsbinpro.com/\n\nWell, that ought to keep you busy for a while! Good luck!
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If you don't have a record label to do these things for you, a good bet would be to get a creative commons licence for works you would like to distribute to the public domain. More information on this can be found at creativecommons.org.\n\nCreative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. They have built upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach.
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use limewire or any type of shareware tech.  mainly take a file of a song.  make sure it is a .mp3 and send it in a email attachment.
116502
as far as i know downloading anything which you are not paying for without the authors permission is stilling... itunes and napster are the most know legal sites.
397002
Go to iTunes. It costs you but the selection is growing and it is completetly legal. You can also search around on the web (very difficult) and possibly buy them via eBay or some web site like that. I know what you mean, I had this problem too. \n\nPS. You can write iTunes a little note and they will try to get the music you request. Cool, huh?
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Well you don't sell them (royalties are how you make money).\n\nYou can send them to her manager (that info is available on-line) or you can send a demo of the song to her label (info available on-line).\n\nOr you can perform a song in public then apply to join ASCAP and meet all kinds of important people.\n\nBe creative.
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Well since you have your own band you can try this.\nthere is a site called IUMA. it is for unsigned bands and artists wishing to distribute their music freely with public, put your mp3 or video on there and maybe it can answer some of these questions for you.
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you can not.  It is piracy and is against the law of your country.\n\nLet me steal your work and wages and see how you like it.
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you need to produce a demo disc of no more than 3 songs,then along with a CV,a photo and a covering letter send it out to every company you can.Also send out the same package to local and national radio-stations.If you don't hear back don't worry send out another, then another and another etc.............................................\nCOPYRIGHT:Once you have put pen to paper the work you produce is covered by copyright but make sure that everything you do is signed,dated and accompanied by the c in a circle.Also keep a diary of when you completed work and dates you send work out and who too.
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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.
993509
Start by not asking how to illegally copy music from the provider on the provider's Answers page.\n\nJust a start.
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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.
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There is really no such thing anymore \nwhat you want to do is go to bearwear.com, These are programs that share the music between users, its not illegal on the basis that everyone is a friend. Limewire seems to do fine for me but some people have problems with it.
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Using someone's written work product as your own.