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    Copyright 101...before you ask, or POST, please take a look!

    in Inside the Music Business

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    until after August 1, 2009, when the fees go up to $65.00.
    Not sure where this came from, but the fee for the standard copyright registration is still $35.00 if done online.

     

    Do not pay anyone for forms, or to copyright your music for you. The forms are free, and can be downloaded online from the Copyright Offices website. They also have extensive instructions and FAQs to help you, along with many other resources.

    Wise words there. Why people would want to pay some company extra to do what they can do easily themselves I've no idea.

     

    A copyright will not protect your song from being stolen, unless you have a lot of money to wage a decades long lawsuit. If a big publisher want's your song, they are going to get it. They have more money than you.
    This would not surprise me in the least, but I have to wonder if that really is the norm. If you have it copyrighted, it should be an open and shut case. You have the copyright; they don't.

     

    I have had several stolen over the years, but I don't mind. I got lots of others. The copyright is just proof that you registered it on a certain date, if and when you ever get in front of a judge. In my cases, it was just easier to settle with them for a fee and be done with it. No lawyers, or court briefs. They got the song, and I got SOME money, as opposed to getting nothing by pursuing a lawsuit. For them, it was chump change just to make it go away. For me, it was paying off my mortgage, or car. I was OK with it.
    Wow sorry to hear that, but glad you got something.

     

    copyrights are assignable, and can be passed down to your children, grandchildren, etc...
    Yes but even then I think it has limits i.e. it cannot be passed down forever.

     

    I consider the entire royalty collection and distribution system crooked. It's nothing more than legalized, organized crime.
    I can't say but wouldn't be surprised.

    Accordion ever gonna make a comeback?

    in Folk, World, and Bluegrass

    Posted · Edited by bill5

    lol exactly - I give up, what is this instrument "coming back" from? It was never exactly mainstream. (Not a criticism, to the hissy fit types...I like the instrument just fine)

     

    I once saw Bruce Hornsby playing one with the Grateful Dead at Madison Square Garden. It was impressive. I think h p[lays them at his concerts regularly

    Well, Hornsby is impressive. The guy is one of a kind, very eclectic and just plain talented as hell. I saw him do a charity show once In Richmond, just him on piano, absolutely blew the keys right off of that piano. Wow.

     

    Is your recording / mix any good? Find out here!

    in Phil O'Keefe: In The Studio Trenches

    Posted · Edited by bill5

    Do you have any that are just one song? To be honest it's hard for me to get a fix on something with small snippets bouncing from one to another...

     

    Anyway, it appears this thread is basically history anyway, so if you have interest (and hope it's OK to post this?), Gearslutz has very active similar threads here:

    https://www.gearslutz.com/board/song...demos-158.html

    https://www.gearslutz.com/board/song...-here-183.html

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