Yeah, don't put your best songs up on the board uncopyrighted. You can copyright US Copyright Office http://www.copyright.gov/ or send an example song which is not your best stuff. By the way, I have used the trick of copyingrighting 20 songs for one fee by submitting it as a collection. I have not checked recently, but as long as all the songs are by the same author, it seems to be legal. For example, you copyright "Songs of Logic Cafe 2004" which includes four songs "Talkin' Bout Love", "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love", "Talkin 'bout Politics", "Ain't talkin' bout Politics". Maybe someone else knows something about this, but it seems like that gives you legal protection and then if you are going to release a commercial CD then at that point re-copyright them with any changes individually. I used to be very trusting, but I had one songwriting partner, who turned out a bit sneaky. She couldn't play but took my recordings and hired a guy to figure out the piece by ear and copyright it in her name.
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2004-12-30 by GAmoore@aol.com