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Originally Posted by vanblah
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.
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Just to be clear - you don't need to join ASCAP or BMI (or Harry Fox or any other organization) to get a copyright on your songs. You only need them if you want to collect royalties (which, with all due respect, is probably not worth the effort unless you become much better known).
You technically don't need them to collect royalties for you, either, but they will do a better job than you can of tracking who is doing what with your song
Doug, do you work for ASCAP (noticed the "(ASCAP)" next to your name)?