Copyrighting Music

It is coming up to the time where we really have to concentrate on our music. Since we cannot copy any recent music due to copyright laws I decided to do a little research for myself to understand it.


What copyright exists in music?

There are usually 2 types of copyright to consider when we talk about music copyright.

• The traditional ©, ‘C in a circle’ copyright, applies to the composition, musical score, lyrics, as well as any artwork or cover designs, as all of these are individually subject to copyright in their own rights, (though when you register, you can include them all in a single registration provided they have the same copyright owner(s)).
• The second type of copyright applies to the sound recording itself, and is signified by the ‘P in a circle’ .

I print screened some information about copyrighting from wikipedia to show in good detail what copyrighting surrounds.