Copyright is the exclusive right granted to the author of an original work, including the right to authorize or ban the publication, adaptation and distribution of that work. Copyright lasts for a certain time period after which the work is said to enter the public domain. Copyright applies to any expressible form of an idea or information that is discrete, substantive and fixed in a medium. Copyright is described under the umbrella term intellectual property along with trademarks and patents.
Copyright Registration is a form of protection provided to the authors of "original works" which includes, songs, lyrics, music, literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, both published and unpublished.
The copyright owner has the right to reproduce the copyrighted song or lyric, to create derivatives or variations of that song or lyric and to distribute it, to perform and display it publicly, However it is strongly advised that copyright registration is applied for and secured before a song or lyric is aired or released into the public domain.
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