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Hello. I am a Junior music education and performance major at Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA. My long time hobby (since early 2007) has been arranging marching band and concert ensemble versions of popular "hot 40" and "Top 100" songs. I have began to think about selling my arrangements but to my understanding you need a copyright for that. Im not exactly sure how accurate this is but I want to sell my music LEGALLY. Also, I have heard that you have to obtain special permission from the artist to arrange a song, for example if I want to arrange "TGIF" I have to get in contact with Katy Perry or whoever owns the rights to the song. I’ve also been told that I could get a copyright from BMI or something like that. Can anyone please help me do things the RIGHT way. Do I need to get a different copyright for each song? Do I copyright my name or create a "pen name" and affix that to the arrangement? I have so many questions. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

If you are manufacturing and distributing copies of a song which you did not write, and you have not already reached an agreement with the song’s publisher, you need to obtain a mechanical license. This is required under U.S. Copyright Law, regardless of whether or not you are selling the copies that you made.

Mechanical licenses are available via, for example, the Harry Fox Agency linked below.

http://www.harryfox.com/public/MechanicalLicenseslic.jsp

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