Copyrights...

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ashura
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If you are pitching songs to other people, it's also important to register the song with your PRO. B.M.I. provides this service - not sure about ASCAP.
Unless you have one particularly saleable (coverable) song, I'd just do a multiple copyright on them all, and save my money for the damned lawyers! You're going to need it.
 
Re: the "updating" of copyright registrations -

You can't really "update" a copyright - what you do is register it again. On PA copyright forms, there is a place that asks if you have ever registered the song before, and what has changed with the new registration.

So, if you registered a rough version, and then added a verse (or something changed) you re-register the new (final) version. It costs another $30. The original record of your rough version stays the same - that is what I mean by "you can't really update a copyright" - you basically amend or append it.

Once the LOC has processed the new copyright registration, providing you have done everything right, each registration will cross reference the other.
 
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