The Copyright Office 03/30/12

        Today, I want to show my viewers about the steps on making some of my songs public. To make sure your music or any kind of intellectual property public and safe under the protection, you have to go through the United States Copyright Office. I do not mean that if you are in the other country and must have to turn an application; it only goes with people in the US, but anyone can feel free to do so. Nonetheless, according to the copyright office, the protection of any kind of intellectual property is usually covered without the submission of the property to the copyright office, and starts when it was created in fixed form; if it has a clear authorship and date it was created.
        There are many kinds of applications for any kind of intellectual property except those that cannot be covered by the copyright law which are: 1. Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression. 2. Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents 3. Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries, or devices, as distinguished from a description, explanation, or illustration. 4. Works consisting entirely of information that is common
property and containing no original authorship. On the other hand, for me, I am trying to publicize my music and it is perfectly fine because it goes under the intellectual properties that are covered by the copyright law.
         For the application of music copyright there are two forms: one is the online registration form, and a registration with paper form. Instead of using the paper form I am going to use the online registration because Online registration through the electronic Copyright Office is the preferred way to register basic claims. Also, Advantages of online filing include "a lower filing fee, fastest processing time, online status tracking, secure payment by credit or debit card, electronic check, or Copyright Office deposit account, and the ability to upload certain categories of deposits directly into electronic Copyright Office as electronic files.
        More of this process will be upload on my next post!