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thorgal wrote:what are you afraid of ? that someone makes money out of stealing your work ?
What is the purpose of your publishing your music ?
Which "post your song" service are you referring to? And what kind of paperwork?Chipfryer wrote:Here's the story. Where I am they have this wonderful post your song and its copyrighted regime. However someone just told us that they don't give you the actual paperwork for now what appears to be TWO YEARS!
You mean licensing and publishing my music? I release everything under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.Chipfryer wrote:I know a lot of you on here are from all over the world so how do you do it?
Trust what? Worried about what? I was worried about all the songs of our band that had a non CC license, luckily the Dutch copyright organisation (BUMA) with which we registred all our songs started a CC pilot so I transfered all our songs to a CC license.Chipfryer wrote:Do you trust it? Are you even worried about it? I'm not so certain that I am frankly after all said and done with this. You would need an army of lawyers in any and who has the money for that anyway unless you are established?
You mean when you will receive your "certificats"?Chipfryer wrote:This one Auto:
http://www.copyright.gov/
I did just one song with them many months ago and have never heard a thing from them. Yesterday a friend told me that they were TWO YEARS behind.
Chipfryer wrote:I'd not seen that link before. Is that a worldwide license please?
It's not a copyright, it's a license. Actually, in some cases it's even the contrary of copyright and sometimes referred to as copyleft.CC Licenses work alongside copyright
Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright, so you can modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs. We’ve collaborated with intellectual property experts all around the world to ensure that our licenses work globally.
AutoStatic wrote:You mean when you will receive your "certificats"?
it's even the contrary of copyright and sometimes referred to as copyleft.
This is an important point here: services like mailing your song to yourself or to a copyright organization is always optional. This is stipulated by the Berne convention. From that page:Shadow_7 wrote:You don't have to register to have a copyright, it just makes it easier and quicker if you have to sue someone for violating your copyright.
wikipedia wrote:Copyright under the Berne Convention must be automatic; it is prohibited to require formal registration (note however that when the United States joined the Convention in 1988, they continued to make statutory damages and attorney's fees only available for registered works).
CC actually depends on copyright to work. Copyright gives you the power to say "i created this, so you cannot copy it, unless ...". CC provides standardized ways to formulate your 'unless'Of course copyright means that you have commercial intent, otherwise release it in public domain sort of way. Creative Commons and other routes to ensure that you have some retention of rights.
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how about emailing it to yourself?raboof wrote:Shadow_7 wrote: This is an important point here: services like mailing your song to yourself or to a copyright organization is always optional.
AFAIK that's not really good for anything.Capoeira wrote:how about emailing it to yourself?
How about it? The work is already copyrighted to you (because that's automatic). Myspace might have additional terms and conditions which you might have agreed to by creating your account and/or uploading your song, but I'm not familiar with those.and how about the upload to myspace?
