Originally Posted By: MarioD
I have sent many BiaB generated songs for copyright and I have never had this problem. You have to be very careful of what you check in the application. You are the sole writer of the song and as been previously stated you are copyrighting the lyrics and melody NOT the performance.

When I copyright songs for myself and the guys I record with, B&H Guitars and Pumping Station Road, I put 6-10 songs on each copyright application. The plus side of this is that you can save a lot of money. The minus side is that if someone wants rights to one song they also get the rights to all of the other songs listed with it.

Mario, I had not heard about this before. I see how that could cause a problem. But couldn't you just do another app to separate a song out onto its own copyright if you needed to? Or is it set in stone that they all go together?

And anyway, you don't usually transfer your copyright, right? You set up a license. Even when MJ bought the Beatles catalog didn't the copyright stay with the Beatles?

Last edited by JohnJohnJohn; 09/06/14 11:07 AM.