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$10,000 per infringement??? HOLY PAYDAY BATMAN--that's almost enough to make me wish someone would try to steal one of my songs. LOL. That's definitely more money than I've made from any songs to date. Though going through court proceedings is never pleasant.

I think the cost for the Library of Congress is $45--I registered some songs back in January and I think that was the cost. According to their website, you are covered as soon as they receive your package--though you have to wait 4 to 6 months before they send you the certificate (still haven't received mine from January). As I mentioned earlier, the way to do it is register them as a collection--then you don't have to pay $45 PER song. I'm pretty sure that you can pull an individual song from the collection at a later date if you need to and copyright it individually. I guess you'd want to do that if the song became a hit.

Eric