How To Register Sr Form Copyright Office Album With Multiple Titles

Let's merely start by saying the Us copyright role needs to hire better web developers.

I just went through the painstaking process of their electronic filing arrangement. Although it has been updated over the years, the website looks and functions like it was congenital in 2003. It is non intuitive any and riddled with errors and disruptive indicators and language.

Why do you want to copyright your songs? Well, remember when Marvin Gaye's kids sued Pharrell and Robin Thicke because "Got To Give It Up" had a similar groove to "Blurred Lines?" Utterly laughable. Until they won $vii million. The only style you tin bring a suit confronting someone you think plagiarized your work is if you officially register the copyright with the US Copyright office. So do information technology for your kids' retirement!

As of March 2019, you can no longer annals ALL of your unpublished works for $55 like you once could.

Now they limit you to xx (unpublished) songs at a fourth dimension for $85. Then this tin can save some money. BUT, and this is a big Kardashian merely, this but works if the same people wrote every vocal and own the masters. You CANNOT select this option if you lot've already released the songs. More on this in a sec.

Yes, the Copyright office says it must be ten unpublished works, merely there is an exception for "sound recordings." So if y'all ain the sound recording and the limerick (like you wrote the vocal and are releasing it yourself – not on a label) you can annals up to twenty songs for $85.

Don't believe me? Watch this video the Copyright role put together.

I'chiliad going to stride you lot through exactly how to practice this. Fifty-fifty though I've done this many times in the past, I STILL had to write in to back up because I received errors on a couple uploaded files. Just don't worry, they'll become right dorsum to you – in 5 f'in business days. Yay government.

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What I'm going to step you through is how to register songs that the aforementioned people wrote and these same people ain the recordings. Like a band. Or like just you, yourself.

Meaning, if you lot co-wrote some of the songs and non others, those have to be registered separately. And if y'all are releasing these on a characterization or with a band, those have to be registered separately.

This price-saving process (20 songs for $85) just works if all songs are written by the same person (or people).

These songs can Not accept been released yet. You have to do this Earlier you release this anthology.

If this is the case, onward march!

Commencement, go to copyright.gov

Click Register a Copyright

Click Log in to the Electronic Copyright Part (eCO) Registration System. If you don't have an account, you'll need to annals one.

On the left hand side click Register a Group of Unpublished Works under Other Registration Options

On the adjacent page select Sound Recording for Type of Work

***Annotation: If you only wrote the song and are NOT releasing this yourself (another artist or characterization is), yous would select Work of the Performing Arts. But since you wrote the vocal AND own the master recording, yous can select Sound Recording – which covers both copyrights. 2 in 1!

On the next page select New.

For Title of this work, this volition be the title of the first song you're registering.

Go along repeating this process until you stop all of your unpublished songs (upwards to 20).

Put the year of completion. If you wrote these songs over a few years, simply the yr you completed the most recent song – most likely this twelvemonth.

Put your name if you wrote it. You're going to select "Unpublished Sound Recordings and Musical Works" since you own both the sound recording and the composition. Retrieve, all songs in this "group" need to have the same authors who own BOTH the sound recording and the composition ("musical work").

If this isn't the case, you lot need to register a divide application, per song, as a "Standard Application"

Repeat this for all the people you desire to annals here. Call back, every person must take written the song and own the principal ("audio recording").

The next screen will ask if there are whatsoever songs that have been previously registered (on this album). If so, you can put that info here. Or but skip it.

Add together in your contact info so they copyright role can arrive bear upon with you if needed.

Then add your address so they can mail you the certificate.

You lot can skip this next folio unless you need an expedited review of your registration – information technology costs $800 though.

The next page is legal language that is basically maxim that you lot're not registering a Kanye W song or something.

This is a good time to remind you that yous can only register a song that you wrote 100% and that all elements in the recording you created 100% yourself (or with a producer who created information technology from scratch). If you used whatsoever samples, you don't ain this 100% and you must register it equally a derivative work and get permission from the artist or label to use the samples. If you bought beats for your song, it's a lilliputian risky because you have no guarantee that the producer didn't sell the aforementioned beat out to a bunch of people. So y'all should get something in writing from the producer that everything they created for you is 100% original and only made for you – no one else.

The next page is where y'all review everything is correct. Click Add to Cart.

And then hit Checkout.

I selected Pay – Credit Card / ACH

Click OK

If you want to pay by credit or debit carte skip the first section and but put your info on the bottom. If yous want to pay from your bank account you put that info at the top and skip the credit card section.

Put your electronic mail in at that place, check the box and click Submit Payment. (See that tiny button at the lesser?? – Yes I missed it besides).

Even though you lot just paid YOU'RE NOT DONE However!

Click Continue.

Then FINALLY, you get to the upload screen where you can upload your 20 songs. They have mp3s, m4as, etc. Make sure the files are small-scale plenty. Don't upload huge wavs or AIFFs. I'd like to tell you what the file size limitations are, but, alas, that link is cleaved on their website. Of course it is!

Oh, once yous upload the songs you can't remove or edit them. Then make sure you're uploading the right ones. I got a few mistake messages – not certain why – I wrote in to ask. Only yous can click the green button on the right side to submit them.

So you're done!

This took way too long to do and is way also complicated for what it is. The US government should really enlist a tech company to rebuild and redesign this site. But until then, hope this helps!

Y'all're now protected more than than the 22 yr sometime sealed letter with the cassette record in it locked in your basement vault containing your high schoolhouse ring's first demo.

How To Register Sr Form Copyright Office Album With Multiple Titles,

Source: https://aristake.com/copyright/

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