Originally Posted by JohnJohnJohn
Originally Posted by Warren P
Nobody is going to steal your songs.

Nobody is even going to listen to them.

They will be ignored as will the 3,000,000 other independant albums and EPs works published this year. You can put it on spotify and apple music, and pay someone to do that posting thing for you, and you might get between 100 and 1000 listens, who knows. You could spend some money on trying to get on playlists. You might be able to afford to buy 5000 listens. But your problems do not include any likelihood that Taylor Swift or someone big like her will steal your song and get a grammy with it.
Exactly right! Unless you are a pro in the music business actively building a career, paying to copyright your songs doesn't make much sense. But if you have the money and feel it is worth it then by all means go for it!

Since there are so many ways to make money in the music business without having hits, that nonsense is Exactly wrong!

Unfortunately, hits are how you might make the big $$$$$$, Copyright registrations are important in the fights against takedown notices, Brazilian and Russian copyright trolls and their bots, others monetizing your YouTube and other channels, licensing synchronization, dramatic and many other revenue streams. When a work is released, you have no rights to be paid without that Form PA Published. If you file that form after someone has stolen from you or placed an ad on your YouTube channel, they get to keep all monies paid before the registration date on that certificate — SCOTUS ruled on that nearly 5 years ago.

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