How to Copyright?

Vadim · Post by **Vadim** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:33 am

ow can I oficially Copyright my songs, recordings, music/backing tracks made for singers?

Ultimate Dj · Post by **Ultimate Dj** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:32 am

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing.
I'm guessing its some kind of program that you can purchase that you would burn through and it would put a copyright on it.

Pura Vida
DJ

Diego · Post by **Diego** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:17 am

Hi!

I think it depends on specific law of you country.
Here in Italy we've got an organization called SIAE (Società Italiana Autori Editori = Italian Company for Authors and Publishers) which works about in this way...: you have to subscribe paying 250 euros for the first time, and then 80 euros per year. When you have something you want to protect (writings, lyrics, poems, music, arrangments, or anything else) you compile some modules and from now your work is under SIAE copyright.
Every time your protected work is used by someone else, they must pay SIAE, and you receive a percentage of SIAE earnings.

Maybe it's not that clear because of my bad english...
But that's nearly the way it works.

Regards

Lorenzo · Post by **Lorenzo** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:44 am

Diego wrote:Hi!
I think it depends on specific law of you country.
Here in Italy we've got an organization called SIAE (Società Italiana Autori Editori = Italian Company for Authors and Publishers) which works about in this way...: you have to subscribe paying 250 euros for the first time, and then 80 euros per year. When you have something you want to protect (writings, lyrics, poems, music, arrangments, or anything else) you compile some modules and from now your work is under SIAE copyright.
Every time your protected work is used by someone else, they must pay SIAE, and you receive a percentage of SIAE earnings.

The good thing is that 1 SIAE doesn't protect you... (I have a friend of mine who had problems and he just had from SIAE the date and document of its copyright, but he had to pay his own lawyer... so SIAE documents are only a prove for the court... anything else)
2 I wonder if they even pay you when your recordings are played around Italy or elsewhere in the world...

They just steal money to us...

Diego · Post by **Diego** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:31 am

Totally agree with you Lorenzo...
A friend of mine if the author of the jingle played at the beginning and at the end of MTV News (here in Italy), and he can't survive just with SIAE percentage...
Consider you're paied based on how many people enjoy your protected work, so if you sold 100.000 copies of your disc you receive a good amount of money, if your poem is red during a TV show with 70% of share (4.000.000 listeners) you can start building a new home with that money...but if you can't do big big numbers...guy...they totally steal away your money!

regards

georgeinar · Post by **georgeinar** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:51 pm

In the USA it's very easy, you just go to the copyright.gov (?) website and follow the instructions. There is an online form you get and you fill in your info, in my case I copyright a complete recording/performance/publishing of the cd and the song writing all at once and for the entire cd you can list the name of songs etc. and they send you an acknowledgement that your cd is copyrighted, it isn't expensive either

Diego · Post by **Diego** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:47 am

W copyright.gov!!!

Why Italy doesn't what happen in the rest of the world, and try to learn something?!?!

regards

Voltan · Post by **Voltan** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:26 am

In Poland it's pretty much like in Italy

I was actually surprised how similar it looks

Lorenzo · Post by **Lorenzo** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:15 am

anyway, I think that copyright (and I mean International Copyright) could be given by any kind of authority in the world... so if there isn't an explicit point in the US copyright.gov rules, I think that anyone in the world can decide to use that service...
Regards, Lorenzo

Diego · Post by **Diego** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:34 pm

Lorenzo, you are THE lawyer