Copyright - Guitar Noise Songwriting Club

Re: Copyright

hueseph — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 03:13:58 +0000

Here's another link that goes into "detail", or at least as much detail as can be approached on a single web page, about Copyright and Copyright Laws. Although much of this applies in the US mainly, they can generally be applied in Canada as well. I don't know about European law. A good read regardless of whether you're making money with music or not.

http://www.sundancemediagroup.com/articles/copyright.htm#Fair

Re: Copyright

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 00:44:23 +0000

Greetings all,

I just read through these posts with some interest, and wondered if anyone here or over on the SSG or SCG boards have heard of the Creative Commons License. If you're absolutely certain that you want money for your songs, then traditional copyright methods are probably best. But suppose you're no too worried about the money side of things, but you would like your music / songs to be distributed or shared, because you're more concerned about exposure right now. They have a number of distribution licenses that allow you to release your work with varying degrees of protection. You determine what level seems right for you. As far as I know, it's free. It might be worth looking into for some of the folks who frequent these parts. You can read more about it at their website:

http://creativecommons.org

my $0.02

scratchmonkey

Re: Copyright

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:41:01 +0000

The Poor-Man's copyright - in all it's glory :o http://www.copyrightauthority.com/poorman.htm All you'd ever want to know about why you should NOT trust this method. ;D

Re: Copyright

A-J Charron — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 01:31:23 +0000

Well, it has worked in some cases already. Anyway, this is better than no protection at all: I've explained it dozens of times, others have done the same: PLEASE STOP ARGUING ABOUT THIS. Attorney or not: you do not make the law. The law is not the same everywhere. Judges may have different view points.

By the way: this method is endorsed in Canada by SOCAN, which is the Canadian equivalent of BMI. Give it a rest everyone: please.

Re: Copyright

blutic1 — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:30:15 +0000

Mailing yourself an envelop with your song in it will not work. I read an article written by a patent attorney where he described how he mailed himself an open envelope. He holds up the open envelope and says "if I put this song in there and seal it, does that prove I wrote it before the post mark?" I can believe that no judge would accept a sealed envelope as evidence, being an attorney myself.

Re: Copyright

Nick Torres — Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:37:20 +0000

to add it to the end of a post hold down

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Re: Copyright

P_Allen — Tue, 20 May 2003 05:13:33 +0000

My understanding of copyright is that you have to be able to prove that you wrote the song at a date which precedes any of the dates used by whoever stole it. So any way of proving that date would do, in theory. Poor mans copyright works but copyrighting with a third party is best.

And always make sure you put that copyright sign on your work 'cos although here in the UK it isn't needed, for international copyright it is a requirement, or so I'm told anyway.

Pete. :)

Re: Copyright

Nick Torres — Mon, 19 May 2003 21:44:22 +0000

Until I have my mini collection together to send off, I take the lyrics to the office Notary and have them notarize them with a date.

Then I stick them in an envelope and send them back to me registered mail.

I have no idea whether any of that works, because I haven't written one good enough to steal yet.

Re: Copyright

Anonymous — Mon, 19 May 2003 20:38:28 +0000

I was just wondering, when you send it to yourself, does it have to be in an envelope and stamped?

Re: Copyright

Reef — Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:05:25 +0000

Hey Miserywulf,

Thanks a lot for the information you posted up. It was beneficial for me just reading it through and I'm sure it will help many of us who are often lost with detailed copyright laws.

Thanks again,

Reef