From the course: Music Law: Copyrighting a Song

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From the course: Music Law: Copyrighting a Song

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Deposit materials

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- Your copyright application is not considered complete until the Copyright Office receives deposit materials, a copy or copies of your music. After paying for your application, you'll be directed to a page to assist with deposits. You will have two choices: electronic deposit upload or send by mail. Here's how it works. Unpublished songs: If your songs are unpublished, you can upload one complete copy, everything covered in the registration. The Copyright Office accepts common sound file formats, but there is a 30 minute per track upload limit. Please note, the system has a 60 minute upload timeout. That means if any one upload session takes longer than 60 minutes to complete, the system will time out and you will have to break up that file into two or more smaller files in order to upload. Alternatively, you can send in a CD or sheet music. The Copyright Office will provide you with a cover sheet to print out when mailing hard copies. Please note, this is referred to as the shipping…

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