subject: Copyright Your Music To Prevent The Plagiarism [print this page] Many people are left high and dry in frustration when there music is plagiarized. There days or even months of hard work goes down the drain only because they had not been wise enough to take the precautions. The best thing to save yourself from disappointment and frustration is to get your music protected. In order to protect your music you will have to acquire copyright act. The copyright act helps protect music from being plagiarized to give you peace of mind.
Registering you music:
Many musicians or composers compose there music and save it in a CD. They mail the CD to themselves which proves that this composition or music piece belongs to them. This system works but it is not that authentic to lay claims if plagiarized. Copyright act obtained by the US Copyright Office is authentic and legal. It legally bounds any person to misuse the music prevents any false claims. The copyright office charges a certain fee which depends from subject to subject to ensure that the music is not being used by any company or person unless taken prior permission from the owner or creator of this music. In case if the music is used and protected under the copyright act the user will have to pay the penalty and is subject to court.
What do you require?
In order to obtain copyright for your music or song you will be required to provide the CD of your creation with copyrighted form filled and handed over to the department. You would also require submitting an envelope for mailing purposes and the cost on this whole procedure is near about $45.
A few tips on filling the Official Copyright Form
1. If you have a band and your band has composed an album then you will need to copyright both lyrics and the composition. You would require and SR or Sound Recording Form from the copyright authorities.
2. If in case you are the song writer and would only wish to secure the song lyrics from getting being plagiarized then demand for Form PA. Form PA will ensure that your song or lyrics are copyrighted but not the sound recording.
3. Continuation Form is necessary to obtain along with the other forms for sound and recording copyrights Acts. The abbreviation for the Continuation is CON.
Register for your peace of mind:
Fill the Sound Recording and PA forms along with the CON or Continuation Form in the right manner. Fulfill all the requirements mentioned by the copyrights authorities.
This whole procedure needs not to take more than a few days. You only need to acquire the right forms and fill them up. Record your number and push it along with forms into the envelope and send to the following address:
Register music against the fee of $45 and obtain the advantages of copyrights act. Make sure you have included a good copy of the music as this copy will be retained and used for copyrighting. With this little extra effort you may save your future.
