Re: help me solve the songwriters' dilemma

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Roger Cloud <rcloud[_at_]surfnetusa.com> wrote:
>
> Just to restate in brief: "What if my particular contribution is
> purely as a songwriter, and I'm certainly not already tied to a
> successful juggernaut musical group, and, thus, performance, and
> sales of CD's of performances or studio recordings of that group
> is not yet available to me?" I can think of arguments, but I'd
> appreciate anyone else's, which I hope will be better.

Have you registered copyrights on the songs? If so, performance thereof without your permission is copyright infringement and you can sue for statutory damages. Doesn't matter WHO the infringers are but if they're using your lyrics, they're infringing your copyright.

If not, register them and then sue.

Am I missing something?

Carol Cricow
(who got into IP law by suing the Grateful Dead for Wrongful Seizure btw)

Carol Busby Cricow
Attorney at Law
Post Office Box 22438
Eugene, Oregon 97402
541-484-6860; fax: 541-484-3099
e-mail: carol[_at_]yujean.com Received on Sat Feb 05 2000 - 22:16:33 GMT