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Copyrighting / Distributing your music!
Posted on: 06.09.2011 by Carlee Pickard
Hey Guys,

I have a few questions to ask! My friend and I have been producing together, and he created a label, and we want to put up a few tracks on like either my blog or sound cloud. However i'm scared about putting it up and having my ideas and music stolen, I was wondering do you know how I should go about copyrighting my tracks? And is there anything else I have to worry about with a new label and distributing music?

I did go and look in the thread section "Music Industry / Legal / Marketing", but those are just quick write up's, I am looking for real insight and real experiences that you guys have gone through.

Thanks.
Alyse Plantenga
14.09.2011
Originally Posted by ohmydaze
lols that anyone in dance music can be that worried about their copyright believeing they MIGHT end up in front of a judge!

If you want to make it you need to get yourself out there, people will copy it. Whether intentionally or not, other producers will life ideas from many different places. But really unless David Guetta is raping your latest riff I wouldnt worry too much about the copyright side of things.
Lol'd at the DG reference.
Celine Surico
13.09.2011
Originally Posted by Onimode
Interested.
Maybe I should not teach that :-). Anyway, if I was a judge I would not trust email timestamps whatsoever. A soundclound account timestamp maybe just a tiny bit. If more evidence of the track up on other sites with similar timestamps then even more.
Kayce Mesia
13.09.2011
Originally Posted by ksandvik
It's pretty easy to forge email timestamps, if interested I could show you.
Interested.
Celine Surico
13.09.2011
Originally Posted by Kevening sOfTheRound
Emailing the track to yourself essentially does the same thing as mailing it to yourself, which is little more than a timestamp to show when you had posession of it.
It's pretty easy to forge email timestamps, if interested I could show you.
Carlee Pickard
06.09.2011
Originally Posted by ksandvik
Actually me believes placing the song on SoundCloud is a good idea as it has a time stamp and the name of the originator. And that might be a better legal tool in case someone ever gets involved with a very costly legal case.
That's what I was believeing too! I'm just double checking my doubts and what not.

Thank you so much for your response!
Carlee Pickard
06.09.2011		Hey Guys,

I have a few questions to ask! My friend and I have been producing together, and he created a label, and we want to put up a few tracks on like either my blog or sound cloud. However i'm scared about putting it up and having my ideas and music stolen, I was wondering do you know how I should go about copyrighting my tracks? And is there anything else I have to worry about with a new label and distributing music?

I did go and look in the thread section "Music Industry / Legal / Marketing", but those are just quick write up's, I am looking for real insight and real experiences that you guys have gone through.

Thanks.
Alyse Plantenga
14.09.2011
Originally Posted by ohmydaze
lols that anyone in dance music can be that worried about their copyright believeing they MIGHT end up in front of a judge!

If you want to make it you need to get yourself out there, people will copy it. Whether intentionally or not, other producers will life ideas from many different places. But really unless David Guetta is raping your latest riff I wouldnt worry too much about the copyright side of things.
Lol'd at the DG reference.
Wm Steinruck
14.09.2011		lols that anyone in dance music can be that worried about their copyright believeing they MIGHT end up in front of a judge!

If you want to make it you need to get yourself out there, people will copy it. Whether intentionally or not, other producers will life ideas from many different places. But really unless David Guetta is raping your latest riff I wouldnt worry too much about the copyright side of things.
Celine Surico
13.09.2011
Originally Posted by Onimode
Interested.
Maybe I should not teach that :-). Anyway, if I was a judge I would not trust email timestamps whatsoever. A soundclound account timestamp maybe just a tiny bit. If more evidence of the track up on other sites with similar timestamps then even more.
Kayce Mesia
13.09.2011
Originally Posted by ksandvik
It's pretty easy to forge email timestamps, if interested I could show you.
Interested.
Celine Surico
13.09.2011
Originally Posted by Kevening sOfTheRound
Emailing the track to yourself essentially does the same thing as mailing it to yourself, which is little more than a timestamp to show when you had posession of it.
It's pretty easy to forge email timestamps, if interested I could show you.
Aracely Mcalvey
13.09.2011		Emailing the track to yourself essentially does the same thing as mailing it to yourself, which is little more than a timestamp to show when you had posession of it.
Carlee Pickard
06.09.2011
Originally Posted by ksandvik
Actually me believes placing the song on SoundCloud is a good idea as it has a time stamp and the name of the originator. And that might be a better legal tool in case someone ever gets involved with a very costly legal case.
That's what I was believeing too! I'm just double checking my doubts and what not.

Thank you so much for your response!
Celine Surico
06.09.2011		By the act of making something unique you have the copyright to this creation. You could legally protect this by various means of which one is to use the US Library of Congress service.

In real life few underground producers use such copyright services. It's not worth it. Stealing ideas and melodies is not that common, if it happens it's by mistake. If someone like a big-short producer is doing it, it won't take long until he or she is blacklisted on Internet.

And please don't recommend the 'mail an envelope to yourself' system. It's marginally better than no copyright but not at all that useful in a legal situation. Actually me believes placing the song on SoundCloud is a good idea as it has a time stamp and the name of the originator. And that might be a better legal tool in case someone ever gets involved with a very costly legal case.

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