Music Protected by Copyright

Video Transcript

"ANTONIO NEAL: Hey, this is Antonio Neal with Artistic Soul Entertainment on behalf Expert Village. Today, we're going to talk about copyrighting a song and also publishing a song. Now let's talk about what copyrights protect. What does a copyright protect? Literally, a copyright protects anything that--what they say an "intellectual property." What? From a recipe, from a song, from a play, from anything you can think of that you created, whether you've written it down or you created, that's what a copyright protects; it protects you. And most people who mostly sign up for copyrights or who inquire about copyrights are people, I've noticed, people who do literary works, whether you're doing books. Mostly, it's about things that people have written and they want to claim ownership of it, and that was my idea, that was my song, that was my melody, that was my guitar strum, that was the way I created that, and that's what a copyright protects: literary works and intellectual property. What a copyright does not protect: It does not protect facts, it does not protect ideas, it does not protect methods or operation, but it may protect the way that idea, that method or operation is expressed."