Copyright Registration is a form of protection provided to the authors of “original works of authorship” including songs, music, lyrics, literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, both published and unpublished.
The copyright owner, (songwriter, composer or author) has the right to reproduce the copyrighted song or lyric, to create derivatives or variations of that song or lyric and to distribute it, to perform and display it publicly, However it is strongly advised that copyright registration is applied for and secured before a song or lyric is aired or released into the public domain.
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