Question for UK members re - copyright

[Ghostdriver]

hi folks,
where does everyone get their copyrights done for their material. Only i signed up to the UK Copyright Service in London and they want £25 initially, then everytime you submit or update after that its £15 a go. So you have to ideally wait until you have a batch of songs which doesnt fit how i work really.
This is inconvenient especially if a Taxi listing appears and you create something right off the bat to submit, how can i pay £15 every time just to be covered.

Just wondered how you folks get around this, is there a company that you pay one fee per year and you can add songs as and when with no charge ??? HELP !!!

[ottlukk]

I'm not from the UK, but if you have a song worth protecting (and you won't know that for awhile), you should copyright it. At least in the USA, you get a really nice certificate to put in your file of dreams.
Ott

[Kolstad]

Yes, there is.

If you subscribe for a membership to the Songwriters Guild, you can copyright any song you want for free, as long as you hold membership. Lots of other cool services too, so that'll be my best bet. It's 50£ a year as far as I remember..

http://www.songwriters-guild.co.uk/serv ... #copyright

[rlcmusic]

Hi Ghostdriver,

I'm based in the U.K and use the U.S Copyright Office's online service. This is also a service which works out cheaper if you upload several at once etc...

Best regards,

Rachel

[tinozigzag]

Hi,
I also use the songwriter guild UK.
http://www.songwriters-guild.co.uk/serv ... #copyright

[glender]

There's a thing called a "poor man's copyright" where you simply take your material seal it in an envelope and mail it to yourself. After that just leave it sealed and store it away. In the event you needed to prove authenticity you then present the sealed envelope (hopefully with a legible date on it) in court as proof that you created the piece. Tossing in the rough drafts that lead up to the final work couldn't hurt either. After you compile 20-30 songs you can copyright them for one fee as a catalog.