If you want it protected, register it with the copyright office.

Even if you can prove the date you wrote the song, if someone else steals it, and it isn't registered, you cannot sue for any money - you can only get them to stop playing/selling it.

I'm not a lawyer either, but I do have some experience with registering copyrights (it's not difficult).

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