From the course: Music Law: Copyrighting a Song

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- Next, you enter your song title or titles. The Copyright Office allows you to register a group of songs on one application, but you must meet a few requirements. First, you'll need to determine whether your songs were published. I talked about what it means to publish a song in the video on publication. As a general rule, a song is published if physical or digital copies change hands. That is they are distributed and/or sold to the public. If your songs weren't published, you can register an unlimited group of them on one application provided the collection bears a single identifying title and that the person or persons claiming copyright is the same for all of the songs. That is all of the songs are owned by the same person, group of people or business entity. In addition, there's one more qualification. If the songs were written by more than one writer, one of the writers must have written or co-written all of the songs. For example, consider an album with 10 unpublished songs…

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