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Big Jim
If you have a studio do a DEMO it is my understanding it is exactly that. A DEMO, short for Demonstration. It can be used for pitch purposes to publishers, etc. It CANNOT be released as a song, a single, or on a album.
You cannot put it on a CD and sell it, You cannot release it for radio play, you cannot put it up for paid downloads.

Now if you go into a studio and record your own songs that is a different matter. You are paying for studio time. If you pay for mixing and mastering that is also different. When you leave you own the song. If you have their musicians add parts that is a work for hire but I believe you should have releases from them for their work. Otherwise you will owe them royalties.

If you send a rough work tape to a demo studio and they create all the tracks and have a demo singer do the vocals that is a DEMO.
Now if you put that song on Ourstage and it wins who has won? You or the Demo studio, the musicians, and the singer?
My way of thinking it was NOT YOU. You just won a contest with someone else's music.