How To Copyright
Music and Songs
When copyrighting a piece of music or song, you should be aware
that there could be more than one copyright owner. For example,
the music alone could be original, the lyrics and the sound
recording itself may all have separate copyrights.
Before protecting this, you should be sure that you have
permission to use any lyrics, tunes and sound recordings that
are not your original work, or that it is licensed as free to
use. In order to gain permission you should contact the publisher
of the work, who will be able to help you further.
If more than one person has worked on a piece of music or song
it should be agreed before any public release of the music who
owns what rights. This should be written in an agreement and
signed by all involved parties.
Once you are sure the work is either original or have
the permissions needed, Protect My Work can play an important
roll in the protection of it. When music or songs fall into
the public domain it is possible that others will attempt to
use it without your permission, perhaps on television,
websites, radio or other medias.
Should anyone use your music or song without permission you would
need to prove that you are the original author of the work in
order to claim any damages or stop the work being used without
your consent.
By submitting it to Protect My Work, your musical work will
be registered and held in our database, along with the time and
date it was received. It is possible to submit any digital
file such as mp3 and wav, either by email or by logging into
your account and uploading it.
For extra proof of the originality , you are able to upload
different versions of the work, demonstrating the different stages
the music or song went through in reaching the final version.
This can be invaluable evidence should you need it.
Cost of Copyrighting Music
and Songs
Protect My Work keep costs simple and very good value for money.
Our copyright registration charges are simply:
A
fixed fee of
£ 25 per year, for account setup and maintenance (this fee does not increase
with the number of files you register with us)
A
£1 token is required for each piece of work registered. You can register up to 5
individual files with one token. This is a one-off cost NOT an annual charge.
Register today
and receive 5 free tokens, that's up to 25
files protected for FREE!
Protect My Work allows it's members to upload up to 20MB in one
go, either by email or upload. Members may upload up to five separate files
in one go as long as the combined total of all five files is less than 20MB.
Members have the option to simply attach up to 5 attachments
(totalling less that 20MB) to an email and send it to protect@protectmywork.com.
This is without doubt the easiest, fastest and simplest way to
register your work. After sending the email, you will receive
one email in reply asking you confirm. Once confirmed, you will
receive a final email with details of the recently registered
work, a unique username and password. This unique username and
password can optionally, be given to anyone that you may need
to prove the work is registered. The username and password can
be entered by them in our Search
Protected Work page and the work will be displayed
for download as final proof .
This in itself is an effective deterrent of anyone using your
music or song without permission.
