Or do you just copyright the album including the songs as just one piece of copyright.
No you only need to do one or the other, but the best way to do is each individual song. If the album has less than 14 tracks on it, you can copyright the whole album for the same flat fee a song costs (about $35), but its just safer to do every song, and reference each song with titles. A whole album copyrighted as a whole would usually stand up in court, but celebrities who have tons of money do it for each individual song just to be more technical about it since titles can also be stolen and its easier to reference them in court when its just 1 track copyrighted at a time.
January 31st, 2010 at 4:03 am
No, you can do it all at once, but it is prudent to do both. You really ought to hire an attorney if you are serious about this. If you screw up, you could really hurt yourself badly.
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January 31st, 2010 at 4:41 am
Each song is copyrighted and the album copyright is for the art work.
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January 31st, 2010 at 4:47 am
No you only need to do one or the other, but the best way to do is each individual song. If the album has less than 14 tracks on it, you can copyright the whole album for the same flat fee a song costs (about $35), but its just safer to do every song, and reference each song with titles. A whole album copyrighted as a whole would usually stand up in court, but celebrities who have tons of money do it for each individual song just to be more technical about it since titles can also be stolen and its easier to reference them in court when its just 1 track copyrighted at a time.
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http://www.copyright.gov/forms/