Originally Posted by Lilly
I was under the impression that as soon as you saved it on something like a computer it is copyrighted to you. I could be wrong though :-)


I believe...that per black letter law....that as soon as you create something in any form, its' copyright belongs to you.
But, as a practical matter, you have to be concerned with protecting it with proof that it is yours...which a registered copyright assists with.

Much intellectual property is easy to steal and very hard and expensive to protect. I have no personal experience in the "music business." Playing in bar bands doesn't count. , but from what I have read, to truly protect a musical composition, you need to be connected and the music needs to go from your head to your publisher to the recording and to public distribution...without anyone else knowing that it exists.

Human nature is what it is and Hunter Thompson was not just being rhetorical.

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