Cash flow of music performance royalties

[mazz]

A short cruise around the Copyright Office website FAQs turned up this:

http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-w ... l#received

Specifically refer to the Note about 2/3 of the way down the page. Since you get an e-mail confirming your registration, coupled with the text in the note, I'd say the minute you get that e-mail you have proof of registration with the copyright office. I'm no attorney, this is just my personal opinion.

Also, this page, particularly the answer to the questions "when is my work copyrighted" and "why should I register....." is pretty educational on the basics of the premise of copyright in the first place.

http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-g ... tml#mywork

If I were fortunate enough to get accepted for an advertising placement and if I was also the publisher, I'd immediately register the piece by itself with the copyright office, even if it was previously registered within a collection, and I'd immediately register it with ASCAP as writer and publisher (I have both set up at ASCAP). I might also just ask if the production company was planning on filing a cue sheet, in which case I "might" wait to register it with the PRO, but that's a point I'm not ultra clear on, maybe matto can speak to that. My gut feeling says that in this case it would be safer for me to register it and give the production company that information in the contract or schedule A or whatever documentation they need.

Google is my friend.

Mazz

[peeyo]

Thanks Mazz!