There enjoy been a collection of problems lately with community stealing and posting matters on the Internet. The (incorrect) assumption is that anything on the Net is usual realm. Creators of all types are learning to protect themselves by moulding it sunny that their occupation is copyrighted: A copyright protects an artist, publisher or writer from unauthorized copying of his or her employment - including song lyrics.
Instructions
1. Create your lyric and assign it in a tangible cast - on paper, event air, personal computer disk or audiotape. You can't copyright an clue that is all the more in your tendency.
2. Place that anything written after Apr 1, 1989, is automatically protected (in the USA) by an assumed copyright. If you don't transfer the copyright to someone else, it will last 70 years past your date of death.
Copyright Office's PA form to register a song. Use its SR form to register published and unpublished sound recordings.5. This also provides public notice.
4. Use the U.S.3. Register with the U.S. Copyright Office so that you can more easily collect damages if your work is copied.
Expect to pay a nonrefundable fee for registration. The basic registration fee is $45, which took effect July 1, 2006.
6. Include a copyright notice at the end of your work. The proper format is: Copyright or ©, year of first publication of the work, author's name: © 2000 John Doe or Copyright 2000 John Doe.
