Copyright My Songs

[talanna226]

I am trying to find out how to copyright my lyrics I have wrote 300 songs but I want to copyright them before i start singing them every where.

[Tania ATL]

As far as I know, you already owe copyrights to all your songs and everything you create by your own - so you don't have to do something special to obtain these copyrights. If you're concerned with the possibility that someone can say that your text belongs to some other person, you can go some notarial service and try to register printed materials, to get some prior registration day.
I suppose you may find lots of answers here: http://www.copyright.gov - information of US copyright office.

[Luke of Metal]

I don't know if this seems too extreme to you but a lot of unsigned artists have done this in the past:


Basically, when anyone write a demo or an EP (Extended Play record/CD - One with more songs than a single but has less than an LP), they'd all sign it, they'd put the date or writing and recording on there and put it in a safety deposit box in their local bank.
Then if anyone were to play their songs or claim the rights to them, they had evidence.