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Is it necessary to copyright your beats? I'm a small time producer and I just wanted to know what happened if I sold beats without copyrighting them.
Is it necessary to copyright your beats? I'm a small time producer and I just wanted to know what happened if I sold beats without copyrighting them.
I don't copyright my beats.(I mean, how can average producer who just started out pay for all the copyrighting stuff and do the paperwork ?)
What I do is, if I decide to put the beat online on YouTube for example, I put my voice tag on the beat.
That way no one can steal it.
I don't copyright my beats.(I mean, how can average producer who just started out pay for all the copyrighting stuff and do the paperwork ?)
What I do is, if I decide to put the beat online on YouTube for example, I put my voice tag on the beat.
That way no one can steal it.
you confuse the fact that you have automatic copyright in your creative work with the lodging of claims to that copyright with the US library of congress (if you are a US citizen or other legal entity under US law)
As an Australian I do not need to take any further action than simply asserting my right to be recognised as the author/creator of the work on the first physical copy I make: this is true for many other legal jurisdictions as well
I don't copyright my beats.(I mean, how can average producer who just started out pay for all the copyrighting stuff and do the paperwork ?)
What I do is, if I decide to put the beat online on YouTube for example, I put my voice tag on the beat.
That way no one can steal it.
the above may be true in the United States of America but is definitely not true in other legal jurisdictions
even in the USA it makes it more difficult to bring a case but does not prohibit one from being brought .... there may be lawyers who would disagree with this but in the end from the moment you create the work you hold a copyright in it under the Berne Convention on Copyright, the international agreement on copyright laws