What are music libraries anyway?
And what are the deals they typically offer and why? Read on. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS When an original song idea is transformed into a “fixed” form (this can be your music and lyric recorded on a small hand-held recorder) a copyright is formed. In essence, as soon as you create a song, you create a copyright. It’s that easy. A copyright grants the author/owner an exclusive bundle of rights: the rights to re-produce, perform, distribute with the intent to sell, and create a “derivative” (i.e., a work based on the original song). If so desired, you could sit around creating copyrights for days only to lock them up in a drawer, never to be used. This would hardly be the most efficient way to spend your time, but it’s your right! When you create a copyright, you not only inherit the rights as the author and owner, but also the rights as the music publisher (that is, until you decide give-up these rights to another music publisher). I bet you didn’t know that. In fact, when you publish your music
