Music copyright

The world of music copyright is evolving. Monopolies of collecting societies are under pressure. Composers complain about a lack of benefit, users about non-transparent and high tariffs. How do you manage your rights? Are you a member of a collecting society, do you use Creative Commons licenses or do you use VillaMusicRights licenses?

I'm strongly partial to the Creative Commons idea, but I guess I'm not 100% committed to the idea yet. I honestly like the "remix culture" that has developed on the internet, where fans make their own variations and projects out of other people's work; my main concern is when attribution is not properly supplied; my secondary concern, of course, is whether I can make a living while signing away a lot of rights for a piece.

Neither. I mail a copy of the piece to myself with the title, my name and the date composed written over the seal with clear tape cleanly over that. Then when it gets back to me I file away the postmarked envelope containing my piece. Then I can send the piece wherever/to whoever I want with out worry of it getting stolen, because I can very easily prove when I wrote the piece should the situation arise (Forging the postmark would be a federal offense, I believe)...And all for less than $2 :D

^ But to circumvent that you don't need to forge a postmark. Simply send yourself an empty envelope without closing it, then you'll receive a postmarked envelope into which you could put a composition at -any- time and seal it. That's one reason why this method of "copyright protection" generally doesn't count much in court. The more reliable "cheap method" is simply showing it to people you know, thus creating living witnesses.

But anyways, I don't think that's what the OP was getting at. The question here is the management of copy (and probably performance) rights, not necessarily their protection.

Well, ACTUALLY, I think what the OP was getting at was spam/advertisement, judging from past posts of a similar nature. But as it stands now I don't think there's sufficient reason for deletion.

Oh, heck, you're right. I should have noticed that. I won't be offended if the thread is deleted :P

This is brilliant spam. I had no idea, and here i was googling villamusic licenses. I'll beon the lookout from now. *laughs*

Music are protected under copyright, that means the person who pays for the music can use it. Music publishers are concerned with administering copyrights, licensing songs to record companies and others, and collecting royalties on behalf of the songwriter.

This is the most brilliant spam I've seen.

I joined ASCAP....today. So we'll see how that goes. :)