Music Law: Copyrighting a Song – Richard Stim

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Summary

• Registering a copyright to a song is not the easiest process, but it's helpful for songwriters.

• It preserves your legal claims to songs and your ability to monetize them.

• In this course, Rich Stim provides essential guidance to navigate the process and understand the main language, concepts, and business aspects of music copyright.

• Rich starts by defining what a song copyright and a sound recording copyright are—and how they're different.

• He defines who owns a song, and how to sort out contributions from multiple writers of the same song.