BOOKS, SONGS COPYRIGHT

What is Books, Songs Copyright?

Copyright for Books-Copyrighting a book is imperative today. With book stores mushrooming all over the place and online stores taking over the market, copyright over a book prevents the stores, both online and physical, from buying a copy and publishing it copies. For different books there are different copyright guidelines, for a book solely based on facts, copyright follows a narrow spectrum whereas for something like a novel, it extends to a wider frame and covers almost everything that is there in the book.
Copyright prevents copying but it does not guarantee any law using which you can stop simultaneous creation of the work done by you. So to avoid this predicament, an author should always strive for registering his work as soon as he incepts the idea and sets his foot on it. Once the book is registered it is basically a prior intimation to the world that this is your work and one will require your consent to republish it in parts or wholly. On the other hand, having failed to register a book, an author might have to struggle later to prove that the plagiarised book has been his creation and the person who has plagiarised his work accessed it before it could be published.

Copyright for Songs- Sound recording copyright is slightly different from music notations copyright. A sound recording is a material object that either reproduces or mechanically plays music. It is imperative to mention here that motion pictures and audio-visual works do not fall in the category of sound recordings. Sound recording copyrights are held by record labels while the right over composition property is that of the publishing company. The publisher holds the right of the composition as he uses them in promotions and other platforms and generates revenues from that.
Once a recording of the original music performance is made on a tape recorder or any other digital medium, it is further edited and the copies are known as master copy. Therefore an individual or a company can buy the rights of the master copy.

Note: Once the copyright holder of the music sheet has sold the rights to a company or a producer, any other individual or company is entitled to have the compulsory license to make recordings of the composition. The move is aimed at preventing sheet owners from authorizing one company the full right over the music and thus reducing the chances of monopoly over the music industry.