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As far as Intellectual Property Rights are concerned, as soon as you publish your work, you are granting permission for people to use your work. Whether you sing a song, write a poem, draw a picture; as soon as you offer it to be experienced in some way by the public, you are granting an explicit right to everyone in the world to use it also.
Now, your ability to be the first to perform it publicly does mildly enhance your ability to prove ownership. Another thing that goes a long way is to actually register it with the appropriate agency, but even this does not assure that you retain ownership. If the work is good enough, it often comes down to who is more known and who has the biggest purse invested in lawyers.
The benefit of "First Public Performance", and indeed a granted copyright, is the fact that you are entitled to be PAID by anyone who has a financial gain from also exhibiting your work in their own arena.
As a song-writer, it would be a blessing to have several large acts do a cover of one of my songs. I could earn royaltiy income and other derivatives from each performance.
If you don't want other people to use your work, don't publish or publicly display it. If you want to share it, copyright it so you can get paid if somebody else uses it. Once you have put it in the air, it is available for everyones use.
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Now, your ability to be the first to perform it publicly does mildly enhance your ability to prove ownership. Another thing that goes a long way is to actually register it with the appropriate agency, but even this does not assure that you retain ownership. If the work is good enough, it often comes down to who is more known and who has the biggest purse invested in lawyers.
The benefit of "First Public Performance", and indeed a granted copyright, is the fact that you are entitled to be PAID by anyone who has a financial gain from also exhibiting your work in their own arena.
As a song-writer, it would be a blessing to have several large acts do a cover of one of my songs. I could earn royaltiy income and other derivatives from each performance.
If you don't want other people to use your work, don't publish or publicly display it. If you want to share it, copyright it so you can get paid if somebody else uses it. Once you have put it in the air, it is available for everyones use.
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