From the course: Music Law: Copyrighting a Song
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What is a sound recording copyright?
From the course: Music Law: Copyrighting a Song
What is a sound recording copyright?
- Once you record your song, you automatically get a song copyright. But the act of recording also gets you a second copyright, a sound recording copyright. The song copyright protects the composition. The sound recording copyright protects the recording of the performance of the song. So for example there's one song copyright for "White Christmas," but there are hundreds of sound recording copyrights for the many recorded versions of "White Christmas." By the way, prior to 1972 Federal Copyright Registration was not available for sound recordings. Sound recording copyrights were intended to protect against bootlegging, the unauthorized copying and sale of a recording, and against illegal sampling, the unauthorized use of a portion of a recording. Sampling often infringes both a song copyright and a sound recording copyright. For example, when Puff Daddy sampled "Every Breath You Take" to create "I'll Be Missing You," he had to license two copyrights because he lifted samples of…
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