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yes, I mean we had the song on our web site in 2006 but didn't register a copyright for it. You'd go with the 2009 publishing date for sure then?

What do you know about copyrighting the visual(artwork) material when submitting a cd of songs to register. Is the artwork covered as well?

My band needs to copyright some songs but we're wondering about how to fill out the 'date published' question.
One of the songs was published in 2006 but the others are all from this year. SHould we say the album was 'published' in 2006 so that the older song is covered or 2009 when the majority of the songs were published? Also, if something happened down the line and we found ourselves in a court battle for instance, could our copyright registration be made non-valid based on the fact that not all songs from the album were published at our given publishing date?