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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 ...

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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Your mechanical copyright is a good idea for 99% of users. It still validates registered dates (even if it seems to take forever).

I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
Make your sound your own!