If you have a few songs to register, submit up to 4 at the same time for just $29.95 TOTAL. One fee, simple forms, fast online service, and the best customer support available anywhere. + REGISTER 1 to 500 SONGS If you have a lot of songs to register, or may in the future, ...
François Villon’s 15th century French songs and John Gay’s 18th century English “Beggar’s Opera” are among the sources Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill used to create Die Dreigroschenoper, a musical play that premiered in Berlin in 1928. It won fame …Continue reading→ ...
That said, I’ve written another post to give you some basic guidelines about usingother people’s work, such as songs or short excerpts. Libel That brings me to my final point about copyright. Writing something original doesn’t automatically give you the right to publish it. While most wr...
For the DIY band that has released its own album, they can simply send in a copy of their finished album to the LOC and register both the songs and the master recordings to receive full protection. Then, if a filmmaker wishing to use their song were to contact the band, they would be...
A user wishing to access any of the songs contained in these files was first required either to demonstrate to defendant that it owned a CD containing the song in question (by inserting the CD into its computer), or to purchase the CD from a designated online vendor. Once the user ...
thing. But it also ensures that those rights last for a “limited time,” so that when they expire, works go into the public domain, where future authors can legally build on the past—reimagining the books, making them into films, adapting the songs and movies. That’s a good thing ...
Ideas cannot be copyrighted, nor can titles of books or songs. Works produced by the U.S. government are also in the public domain. Copyright law provides that where a work was made for hire, the copyright belongs to the employer rather than to the creator. This is the single major ...
Meanwhile, Butler licensed songs from the Music Specialist catalog to Warner Chappell Music, without Nealy’s knowledge. Warner Chappell, in turn, licensed them to popular recording artists and television shows. In 2018, Nealy sued Warner Chappell for copyright infringement. He sought damages and pro...
This brings up a screen with a few questions. First, it asks if you are registering one work (like one song). By clicking “no“, you’re able to register a copyright for an entire record. You can actually register all of your songs as a collection under one copyright registration. Th...
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Suskin, Steven. Show tunes : the songs, shows, and careers of Broadway’s major composers / Steven Suskin ; with a foreword by Michael Feinstein. — Rev. and expanded 4th ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 978...