From the course: Music Law: Copyrighting a Song

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Choosing the type of work

Choosing the type of work

From the course: Music Law: Copyrighting a Song

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Choosing the type of work

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- In the first section, you must indicate the type of work. Unlike most other fields in the application, this field cannot be changed later. Typically, when you're registering a song or group of songs, you would choose work of the performing arts from the type of work drop down menu. This includes music and/or lyrics. There's one exception. If you are registering a sound recording copyright and song copyright in the same application, you would choose sound recording from the drop down type of work menu. I discussed sound recording copyrights in the previous video, and in brief, a sound recording copyright protects the sounds of the audio production and performances. A song or musical works copyright protects the compositions. You can register song and sound recording copyrights on one application if the copyright claimant, that is, the owners of copyright, are the same for the songs and the recording. For example: you wrote four songs and recorded them by yourself. In that case, you…

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