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Copyright registration of songs music and lyrics: Helps protect and endorse the exclusive rights which are granted by default to the author or creator of an original work. Copyright Registration will help establish and confirm the rightful and legal copyright owner as from the date of registration.

Also known as buyout music or lifetime synchronization music, Royalty Free Music at it's core simple means music that has a single, or one time licensing fee. Once this fee has been paid, the licensor is granted the ability to synchronize that music with their audio and/or video productions an unlimited number of times without additional synchronization fees.

PDF Version Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States 1 January 2012 1 Never Published, Never Registered Works2 What was in the public domain in the U.S. as of 1 January 2012 3 Date of Publication6 Conditions7 Copyright Term3 After 2002 None 70 years after the death of author.

Public Domains are generally a group of artist idea's that have no copyright entitled to it's creation or have hit the age in which law dictates that the work is no longer entitled to but, now entitled to everyone in a cultural level. Just as history itself were at one point secrets, they deemed no longer to be a secret due to its time frame and the age in which it happened.

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Royalty free music and buyout music for production, multimedia projects, film, television, video, advertising, music on hold, and background music applications by Top 10 Billboard Magazine recording artist Gary Lamb

Offering your work under a Creative Commons licence does not mean giving up your copyright. It means allowing more liberal use of your material, but only on certain conditions. Each Creative Commons licence comes with the same baseline user rights and restrictions.

So you've scoured the internets in search of music recordings in the Public Domain and found bupkis... If only someone would have gone out and found all of the decent Public Domain recordings and collected them in one spot! If only.

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A list of public domain one-act plays, with links to the full script

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Some tips for acquiring a license: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Before_Licensing

Music for video game soundtracks from RoyaltyFreeMusic.com can make an excellent, low-cost addition to contemporary video games, which continue to build on a history of intensely unique background music by continuing to find new ways to implement music that compliments the overall style and artistic vision of video games.

U.S. Copyright Office is an office of public record for copyright registration and deposit of copyright material.

Artist managers are girding for battle with their music overlords over when their clients are going to see some of the dough negotiated last year in copyright-infringement settlements with a host of Web sites. Universal Music, Warner Music and EMI - either collectively or individually - settled claims with Napster, Kazaa and Bolt.com.

This page has royalty free plays from several different playwrights