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Summary: Learn how to copyright a sound recording in music copyright law 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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How to Copyright a Sound Recording

Copyrighting a sound recording! A sound recording has rights just as musical composition does. Musical composition was used in form P.A. is a physical means of expression while a sound recording is the audio means of expressions. The difference in Copyrighting the sound recording versus the music, is that you're registering an original work in the form of audio instead of on a piece of paper. This can be done with the form S.R. "Sound Recording". This form sound recording is pretty much the same thing as the form P.A. except it refers to all sound recordings. The form S.R. is used if the form takes any form of recordings made from spoken sounds, musical gestures and anything which is audible and not visual. The form S.R. has just about the same things as the P.A.

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