Music Publishing Podcast

Copyright is the bedrock of every artist's career – it secures rights and offers protections that allow us to build careers on solid ground without undue worry of our works being stolen or exploited without our knowledge or consent. The Founding Fathers of the United Stated thought it so important that they wrote it into Article I of the Constitution. Every artist should have a working knowledge of current copyright law – they should know the basic rights and protections that they're afforded, and how they can remedy any infringement on their rights. It's with this in mind that I invited my friend Marc Ostrow, an entertainment/IP lawyer and songwriter, to be on the show. In our conversation, we talked about: basic tenets of copyright the limits of what is copyrightable the Poor Man's Copyright the benefits of and incentives to registering your copyrights fighting infringements folio registrations* working with living poets vs. dead poets' estates Performing Rights Organizations selecting collecting perform