6 Legal Copyrights for all music created

6 Legal Copyrights for all music created

Whenever a song is created there are 6 legal copyrights that are automatically given to the song created and these are given the minute that the song is created. A song is anything that is lyrics or a melody.

These 6 copyrights are:

1.     Distribution

2.     Reproduction

3.     Public Performance

4.     Digital Transmissions

5.     Derivatives

6.     Public Display

There are 2 copyrights in every song. The first one is ℗. This stands for phonogram. This copyright is given to the person or company that publishes the song. This is the copyright that is for the actual recording. The second copyright is ©. This stands for copyright and this is given to the person that creates the song. These two copyrights are needed to be able to give permission for one to use or reproduce the song.

For instance if you film a movie and want to use a song in your movie you must have permission from both the person that owns the copyright of the creation of the song, the song writer. And you must have the permission from the person owns the rights to the recording of the song.

With these 6 copyrights that are given to the creator of the song, this is why you see that bands that have one or two members that wrote the songs that they perform and record will make more money than the other band members. This is one reason that causes bands to break up.

With more music being sold online on such sites at iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody and many more, the way people are getting paid is changing and the song writers look to become the ones making more money in the future. Singer/Song writers can now be their own record label, producer; keeping the money being made in their own pockets.

There is a good series of videos that you should watch if you want more information on copyrights at www.tunecore.com/copyright

Sources:

http://www.tunecore.com/copyright

http://youtu.be/FMvhjwwzcQg