Copyrighting your music

It's typically a good idea to copyright your music. Why? Well if someone decides to steal your music and make money off it, you can ask them to either pay all compensation or you will file a lawsuit. Of course, you don't want someone using your music without giving you credit either. So here's two methods:

1. Assuming you live in the US, you can file copyright either online or by CD for $35 with the US government at http://www.copyright.gov/eco/index.html
2. The free method is recording a CD and sending it to yourself with postal mail. It doesn't need to sound good. Burn it to a CD and head over to the post office and send it to yourself or one of your bandmates. Do not open it! If you do, consider the copyright void.

View the post on recording a cheap CD to learn how to record.