Online Copyright

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Anybody here copyright songs? It use to cost $20.00 when I started copyrighting songs at the Libraray of Congress in Washington, D.C. in 1979.

Then the fees kept going up, my fourth volume back in 2006 cost $45.00

That's the bad news. The good news is that now you can do it online for $35.00.

It's pretty painless. You create an account with a User Name and Password and then they email you from ecobeta@loc.gov and ask you to respond with your first name, last name, and user name, not your password.

Then your account is activated. At this point you can register a claim and pay $35.00 by credit card and you have 45 days to upload a zip file with as many songs as you want and you will be protected.

The only limitation is the upload time. 30 minutes.

I've been told that a zipped folder of about 60MBs (roughly 12 songs) takes about 15 minutes.

I'm going to try to upload about 20 in my first shot at it.

I'll let you know how I make out.

Some helpful hints I've picked up lately:

1. You don't need to re-register if you make minor changes to a song previously registered. Even if you add a verse. Only if you substantially change the song.

2. You need to acknowledge a previously registered song that is included in a new work. Example - in 2006 I registered a musical that had 4 previously registered songs. I made mention of that and it's right there on my link in the website for that volume.

https://eco.copyright.gov/eService_enu/

If anyone here has any interest in learning more, I'd be glad to walk you through the process.

PM me for further details
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cool. yes it used to take forever to get the thing submitted and acknowledged too. I would think this online way, its immediately recognized as sent in on that date?

20 songs for $35.....thats not bad.

Pizza Hut has increased more than that. Although McDonalds is holding tight at $1 menu, just make the burgers smaller and of unknown meats and materials.

thanks for posting this....going to check it out.:)
 
This is some great information. It's about time the library of congress cuaght up with the 21st century.
 
bigwillz24 said:
This is some great information. It's about time the library of congress cuaght up with the 21st century.
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I agree, Will, just think of the money maker this is for them. They're doing this experiment, and it is an experiment, because they were backlogged about 600,000 songs.

Man, this electronic filing costs them squat, and think of the revenue.:eek:

I don't care, I'm just trying to protect my heirs. We all no you don't get famous until you croak.:D
 
This sounds good, something simple. You mention mp3's, what about sheet music? Don't you not have to include that also with each song?
 
cnix said:
This sounds good, something simple. You mention mp3's, what about sheet music? Don't you not have to include that also with each song?
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Nope. You can provide lead sheets if you want to, but it's not necessary.

You can send hard copy (actual paper) of the songs, but it isn't necessary.

All you have to do is send an MP3.

You can also send wav files, but the idea is to get as much material as possible to upload in thirty minutes. Wave files are pretty big.

Two or three songs as wave files are about 100MBs. That's about all you can expect to get uploaded in thirty minutes.

As MP3s you can fit about twenty in 100 MBs.

All for $35.00 That's about $1.75 per song. Pretty cheap.:)
 
Pizza Hut has increased more than that. Although McDonalds is holding tight at $1 menu, just make the burgers smaller and of unknown meats and materials.
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Unknown coolcat?...havent u heard mcdonalds burgers are a mix of kangaroo , pigeon meat and toothpaste (crest i think)
 
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