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As the owner of your music, copyright gives you the right to make and sell copies, distribute those copies, make new works based on your work, and, with some limitations explained below, publicly perform or display the work.

If anyone else wants to perform your music, they must get your permission. However, to fully protect your music, you should register your copyright with the U.S. government. You should also monitor whether other people perform or use your music without permission and send appropriate legal notices.

Luckily, this is really easy to do! In fact, music is automatically copyrighted the moment you create it in a tangible medium; like on paper or on an audio recording. That's right! All you have to do is write your original song down on paper or record it, and you own the copyright.

A copyright is the only true way to protect your songs. In the case that you need to sue someone who has stolen your work, your copyright makes sure that you have the grounds, license, and exclusive rights to do so.

How do you check if something is copyrighted? We found out earlier that every original creative work is ?copyrighted? as soon as it's written down or saved in some tangible form. If you want to check registrations, though, you need to use the search engine on copyright.gov.

Registration Allows YOU to Protect Your Music We recommend you register your works with the U.S. Copyright Office. If you do, you will have "Prima Facie" evidence that you were the first to create the work. "Prima facie" is a legal term.