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Originally Posted by Draconis
Basically, what I want is for my songs to be available for anyone to download for free but not for other people to be able to play and claim as their own. I would see that as a serious problem and an afront to my music. All I want is something that gives me solice in knowing that if anyone ever plagairizes my work, I will be able to go tooth and nail on them and strip from them whatever profit was made from that song. I wouldn't really care if I saw a cent of it. I just happen to be a very selfish person when it comes to my intellectual property.
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Then you probably don't want to go with the Creative Commons model. Furthermore, if you EVER publish a song and expect to collect royalties then you will definitely want to use the Copyright Office. Creative Commons has that spelled out on their <a href="http://creativecommons.org/policies#license" target=_blank>legal page</a>. They are just there as a method to share and distribute your work so that you can propagate your own name. That's a good thing.
I love the concept of Creative Commons but if you look carefully all of their logos and some of their text is protected by Trademark and copyright. I think that's kind of funny.
You'll also need to become a member of ASCAP or BMI or some other royalty collecting corporate piece of beaurocratic bullsh*t.
I hate them just as much as anybody, but trying to collect royalties without them is painfully difficult.
Doug (ASCAP)