I'm not all that concerned with theft of my music these days, simply because what I do write is MELODIC and what is selling today is not melodic.

Don't get me wrong, I still register copyrights for certain of my compositions, but it is not very likely that someone is going to steal my entire jazz-based composition these days.

The real problem nowadays is theft of the mechanicals.

Sampling a few bars of your recording and looping it throughout another recording without giving you credit or royaltis is the way copyrights get violated these days.

So it behooves the recordist to make sure that they obtain at least the mechanical copyright on their recorded works. This can be done economically by obtaining a mechanical copyright on the whole album (CD) at once, rather than by the song, which makes your bottom line investment only one $40 fee in the US. There are caveats to not having each separate song copyrighted, though, and the serious songwriter should indeed consult a Music Writing Attorney (NOT JUST ANY ATTORNEY BUT ONE WHO IS IN THE MUSIC WRITING LAW FIELD) concerning the differences.

That said, the odds of any internationally known artist stealing loops from internet published home recordings are low to nonexistant. They're gonna go for Miles, not Mac.


--Mac

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