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Summary: Watch an overview of the music copyright act in this free DIY legal music rights video from our band management expert. Make sure you have the songwriter rights to your songs!

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Kiely Griffin Kiely Griffin is a third-year music management and jazz flute student at the Hartt School of Music in West Hartford, CT. She has previously served as vice pre... read more

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Overview of Music Copyright Act

The copyright act grants six specific rights to music. These are the rights which the composers and authors of the copyrights have and can file in a court of law. These rights secure their originality to the tune. One of the first rights is, "The right to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phono records." This means that you have all of the rights to take an original recording or a piece of music and to copy it and distribute it. Another right that the copyright owner has "Is to prepare derivative works based upon the copyright work." A derivative work is a work that uses part of a copyrighted material and puts it in conjunction with a new piece. The author can do this and create as many different types of works with what they have from the original work.

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