Copyrighting Music in Canada

[13b]

I've seen everyone talking about registering their beats via US Library of Congress, but I was wondering if anyone here has experience with registering their beats in Canada and how the process works.

 

[bandcoach]

3 takes from probably the three most relevant organisations: government, PRO and Composers league

A Guide to Copyright - Canadian Intellectual Property Office

About Copyright | SOCAN

Copyright in Canada for Canadian Composers

note that all 3 confirm the fact that copyright in Canada is automatic but that registration confirms your copyright for others

 

[13b]

Thanks for the links, that cleared up quite a bit. In your opinion, would you be worried about officially registering copyrighted work? Or would the © Your Name Year format for establishing copyright online be sufficient. Also, would you recommend signing up for SOCAN?

 

[bandcoach]

in this interconnected ,social media driven, age, it is important that you guard your intellectual property carefully.

In most cases this takes the form of registering publishing rights at minimum via a PRO (SOCAN) and possible registering with any government office of copyright as well

do not under any circumstances register via a non-government entity as in most cases they are simply fronts to scam money from you to do a process (fill in and lodge the forms) that you can easily do for yourself.

paying an attorney to do bulk amounts of registrations is a reasonable thing to do as long as the fees required represent less than the value of your time to do the same task