From the course: Music Law: Copyrighting a Song

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Claimants

Claimants

From the course: Music Law: Copyrighting a Song

Start my 1-month free trial

Claimants

“

- In the next section, you list the person or persons, or entity, that owns the copyright, known as the copyright claimant. That would be the songwriter, unless the songwriter has sold or transferred copyright ownership, for example the rights were sold to a music publisher. In that case, the person or entity that acquired the copyright will be listed as the claimant. Choose "New" to enter the first claimant. You can also use the "Add Me" button to enter your name and contact information directly. If you are registering a group of published or unpublished songs, the claimant or claimants must be the same for all of the compositions being registered. That would not be the case in our example if Bruce owned two of the songs and Bruce and Rich jointly owned the other three. If you are also registering the sound recording copyright as well as the song copyright in one application, the same claimants must own both copyrights. Keep in mind that the claimant's mailing address will be made…

Contents