Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

--- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com, GAmoore@a... wrote:
> 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.



Musical creation ia a gift from the creator and for those of us who 
posess this gift, life is an irony when thinking about how much 
people love to listen to the accomplishments but would take the work 
in a heartbeat and call it their own. In fact, at times I've thought 
close friends would steal my ability and leave me for dead on a 
street curb, if only they could get it. But, they can't have it, it's 
mine!! Have to be very careful with musical works, to have the 
ability to do it is also to take for granted that others could do it 
if they just wanted to. That just isn't so, so all the more reason to 
protect your work.
Gary