Simple solution!!! Give your songs away for free. Let anyone and every one have them!!! if you have talent and get good you'l soon start making money and be paid for your work. If you get signed the label will worry about copyright or if you're not signed and making lots of paid for beats, your manager will worry about it.
People will rip you off regardless to what you do, just move on! Concentrate on what matters, the music!
it's good to know a bit about the subject but it's a pointless battle.
Derange Is spot on with his words above!
songs aren't worthless instrumentals at this point are
unless you add worth to them by actually networking with artists beyond "yo I got beats 3 for $10"
I sold a exclusive to a artist for $250 last week this is because I have build a solid relationship with him over several months
this is what I teach my clients to do is to make songs if you're a recording artists and do gigs over just trying to sell songs online
I teach my clients who are producers to have alternate sources of income besides selling leases like money from a blog,drumkits,etc..
and mailing list marketing can create a cash cow for you.
True useful information in you email blasts (weekly or bi-weekly) must have a standard schedule bringing those who have already showed interest in your company already to your site with your control the information and have several CTAs(call to action).
And only once a month emailing those on your list your products you're selling besides instrumentals like drumkits,e-books,training material.
Building up your mailing list takes time a patience,it has took me close to 2 years to see steady results and hopefully I'll be blessed to continue to grow my company through this tool.
So get a better sales pitch and get that pitch out there through relationships you make.
Also have instrumentals that aren't available at your beat store so you have exclusive ones never heard beyond the exact artist you're creating a relationship with this takes away a lot of that (my instrumentals can be stolen paranoia).
And everyone is trying to make beats for artists and stay down that dark tunnel than looking for company to license their music to. Branch out soon as I buy my home it's 90% of my music based revenue should come from actually crafting songs for artists.
I understand not everyone is interested in recording artists, mixing songs, and bringing ppl into their home.
I think I have had a hard time selling instrumentals as I only focus on Christian artists and have still saw success while others have a larger market to sell to so sometimes I just see it as lazy and not using the tools around them. I understand when first starting to market your music you have to learn business and about those tools.
I learned so much for mentor on this site who don't ever know they are mentoring me lol.. like Deranged I learned a lot from him. So a lot have to do from being around the right people and can create keys that will open up plenty of doors for your company