Recently, I recorded a good musical group in my own garage and produced their music to fit the standards set by the musical industry. The last step I needed to do was to get it copyrighted. I first thought that copyrighting music was a complicated process, but it really was not. I’d like to share with you a few things I learned throughout.
1. The First Parts You Should Notice
A copyright notice should consist of the following parts, namely the word “copyright”, the year of publication, which should indicate the date the work was first made available to the public in any manner through the Internet or a demo CD, the copyright symbol in your record and the name of the copyright owner, which are the artists or musicians. In artworks such as paintings or Internet graphics, you have a document validating that you own full copyrights to the work you possess.
2. It Lacks One Or Two Parts
If you find that it lacks some parts, maybe even more than two, don’t fret that it is not copyrighted. In reality, the Berne copyright convention, followed by most copyright organizations in the world, ensure that everything created privately has a copyright on its own without any documentation. However, a notice strengthens the protection of your right to your work.
3. Fair Use Copyrights
It is not true that when you do not charge a violator, it is not considered a violation or infringement of your copyrights. It is still a violation if you give away a copy of your work and if you hurt its commercial value. For example, if da Vinci displayed the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, who gains many visitors and income due to visitors, and he decides to one day sell or give away his work, he could be charged a violation for copyrights.
