Originally Posted By: edshaw
Put it out on the forum, post it to the net, send yourself a registered copy, but don't count on that as legal protection. Music and art has gotten to be cut throat. The US Copyright office permits collections, I think 10 or 12, for the same price as one. Cost thereby reduced to a few dollars per song. Free Course

No! By oversimplifying the subject, you've gotten it wrong.

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US Copyright office permits collections, I think 10 or 12

You may register up to 10 works on a Form PA or SR/PA — Unpublished only. Published works are one to a PA only — if PA is checked on an SR, only the first is protected. You can register multiple recordings on an SR but the rights to the songs will not be protected.

You do not need to register unpublished works but registering them establishes date of creation and entitles you to other protections.

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Put it out on the forum, post it to the net


Posting is publishing because you've made it available to the public. If you publish, you lose all protections you were entitled to for unpublished works. Since you've lost those rights, no reason to register them on a Form PA Unpublished — nothing to protect.

Published works must have individual Copyright registrations to be properly protected. Your rights to published works begin the date that the Library of Congress uses on the processed certificate and not before (recent Supreme Court ruling cleared up long standing confusion on this point).

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send yourself a registered copy, but don't count on that as legal protection


There is absolutely no reason to do this. Other than the waste of time and postage, that doesn't count for anything at all.

I'm betting you didn't watch the Alison course that you linked. If you did, you have now learned about Trademark & Copyright in India.

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