Copyright is the means by which a person or a business makes a living from creativity. People that create, produce or invest in creative work should be the ones to decide how that work should be reproduced and made available to the public.
Copyright is provided automatically to the author of any original work covered by the law as soon as the work is created. The author does not have to formally register the work, although registration makes the copyright more visible. (www.whatis.com)
Music, if used to generate income for you and your business, should in turn generate income for its source – the songwriter, the copyright holder of the song.
Copyright protects the true value behind the sale of any musical recording – creativity. The proportion of the album price and its manufacturing and production cost is minimal compared to the right and creativity that produced all that great music in the first place.
While it is true that the music industry in general benefits in the successful implementation of the Intellectual Property Rights regime that penalizes anybody that violates the copyright law , the most vulnerable party is, ironically, the songwriter himself. Unlike multinational companies, the independent songwriter does not have the clout of an organization to protect his interest.
This is where M2K comes in.
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