In the country where I live, there's a state department that handles music copyright. In order to submit a track and register it for copyright you also need to include sheet notation for all the instruments in the song. This means a rock track would need the bass, guitar, drums, and vocal melody to be submitted in standard sheet musical notation to be eligible for registering.
Now obviously you can't write in standard notation 40 tracks of distorted automated synths, so how does it work in US for example? What steps do electronic producers such as Skrillex and many others have to go through in order to copyright their song?
Even though signed artists have the labels own the songs, I'm thinking some notation has to be required in case of a lawsuit where exact musical lines have to be discussed, right?
I'd be thankful to anyone that could shed light on this!
Submitted November 20, 2016 at 04:09PM by radu_sound https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/5dzjq3/how_do_electronic_music_producers_submit_their/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Sunday, November 20, 2016