Ahhhh that's better

[solarbird]

So I've been out of town a little while (at Disneyland! It was great) and I'm back now. I've missed my instruments, particularly Kohaku. ^_^

Last week I came up with big chunks of three songs and today I started a fourth on the way back, on the airplane. This is pretty high output for me and sure all these need a lot - I mean a lot - of work before they'll see daylight but! there they are.

Does anybody know if there's reason not to post lyrics in public? And regardless, is anybody interested in that?

BTW, I have some Dreamwidth invite codes if anybody wants them.

Comments

[unexpected_finn]

Posting lyrics is probably okay as long as you mark them with your name, the date posted, and a copyright notice.

Ultimately, it all depends on what you want to accomplish by posting them. Comments? Other people singing them? Suggested tweaks?

Myself, I wouldn't post anything that I didn't want to hear being played or sung by someone else, but I'm cautious that way.

Good fortune to you,

Maria-Katriina

[waysofseeing.livejournal.com]

Haven't decided what (if anything) to do with Dreamwidth, but I'll take an invite code if you're distributing them. It'd be nice to at least plant a flag and claim a space in the name of me. Or something.

[kodi]

If someone infringes your copyright in your lyrics, and you have not yet registered the copyright of the lyrics, you may have a much more difficult time suing them for that infringement. That's the only thing that springs to mind.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Nope, real simple. All you have to do is stick a copyright notice on the posted lyrics; LJ will date and timestamp it. Boom. Instant proof.

IANAL, YMMV, EIEIO, but that's how *I* understand the Berne Convention...

[kodi]

I do not know what issues you might encounter getting an LJ timestamp admitted into evidence. I do know that 17 USC 412 makes registration a prerequisite for collecting certain types of damages.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

(reads the actual law) There's a loophole, of sorts. If you stick it up on the web, and somebody rips it off within the first three months (VERY likely if it's gonna happen, in these days of the IntarWebs), you've essentially got one calendar month to register it, and then you can sue the snot out of the bastards. After three months, you have to have registered it period.

There's a theory out there that says you could put it up on an https: server and then sue anybody who violates - regardless of registration - under the DMCA (because you had to use a cipher to get at the material), but I think it's evil and not recommended. IMNASHO. :)

[solarbird]

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