Learn how to get and protect copyrights for your songs, and understand the critical language, concepts, and business aspects of music copyright.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What is a song copyright?
- What a song copyright is not
- What is a sound recording copyright?
- How do song copyrights earn money?
- Who owns a song?
- Who is a co-writer?
- The co-writer agreement
- Why register?
- What's needed for registration?
- When is a song published?
- Getting started with registration
- Choosing the type of work
- Entering your title or titles
- Publication/completion
- Authors
- Claimants
- Limitation of claim
- Rights and permissions (and beyond)
- Certification and review
- Deposit materials
- Paper forms and PDFs
- After you file
- Formalities
- What's next?
Taught by
Richard Stim
