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Obtaining a copyright for sheet music arrangements?

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:23:37 +0000

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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Wall Street Occupiers showed up by the thousands to mostly cheering crowd at Rose Bowl?

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:24:27 +0000

many held octopus made out of recycle trash bags representing the Wall Street.

The thunder of the retreating marching bands mingled in the air with chants of "Banks got bailed out, we got sold out" as the Occupy the Rose Parade demonstrators retraced about 1.5 miles of the 5.5-mile parade route before veering off for a rally near City Hall.

They carried a 250-foot-long banner that said "We the People" to represent the U.S. Constitution. Some also held a 70-foot-long octopus made from recycle plastic bags that represented the tentacles of perceived corporate greed.

"This is about getting money out of politics," said Greg Stevens, a 38-year-old public health lecturer at the University of Southern California. "I support everything this movement is about."

Did you think we had disappeared?

Nope. The media has just lost interest. These idiots who make fun of the protestors need to get their heads out of their asses. These ignorant fox news parrots are as much a part of what’s wrong with this country as the criminals on wall street and in washington are.

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