Music Copyright Forms

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ANTONIO NEAL: Hey, this is Antonio Neal with Artistic Soul Entertainment on behalf of Expert Village. Today, we're going to talk about copyrighting a song and also publishing a song. All right, let's talk about the copyright forms that you need to protect your songs. There are two types we're going to talk about today. This first one is called Form PA. And Form PA is specifically for your songs and your lyrics. This is not for anything but your songs and the lyrics to tell you this is the person that wrote that song. And also, say if you were a person and you own your own your record label. This is called a Form SR, because the person who actually owns the CD disc, the making of that, who paid for that is a different thing between the person who wrote the song. Let me give you an example. I have a product of a young lady named Miss Da'Quela Payne that I worked and I have songs because I own my publishing company and we wrote songs on this project, But the actual project, if you go down here, it actually talks about--it says EMI Gospel. So actually, although I own the copyright to Miss Da'Quela Payne's or the songs that she is singing on the air, the PA form, EMI owns the right to all of these. They pay for the copyright--the pictures. They pay for the casing. They pay for the production. And so I own the entity of the songs and they own this product here. And that's the difference. The PA is the--your songs, your lyrics and also the SR is the sound recording.

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