[Dixielandjazz] Question about copyrighting

[Don Ingle]

Unless you are the composer, you cannotcpyright the  individual songs.
However, you can copyright the arrangements, and you can copyright the
entire album as a collective, singular
volume entity. Original art on covers also may be copyrighted. The composer
is still the only one who can  hold the copyright to the original music
content unless he has licensed it for use or signed off -- a rarity.
Go to your library and check on the books available on copyright law -- make
certain it is a recent edition prior to the Eisner/Disney sweetheart deal
that shoved the copyright date past where some maerial had already gone into
public domain. But let's not get into that brouhaha!
Don Ingle

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kimberly Shaffer" <kimberly_shaffer at pgn.com>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 12:48 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Question about copyrighting


Question,

After recording an album, should one copyright the whole album or each
individual song? Experiences?

thanks!

kimberly


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