Who said anything about “audio recordings?” A song draft, you know, if written on a piece of paper, is on a “medium.”
No formal registration mechanism would stand up legally.
Maybe I misunderstand this, but as written it’s wrong. In fact, US courts won’t even accept a lawsuit without there being an existing, formal registration. And statutory compensation for damages is not provided without said registration and is based on the DATE the registration was accepted (plus 3 months as I read it).
Cubase has a notepad, albeit very basic so that is (C) in both musical and literary works.
I wonder about this. Couldn’t a person make an entry into the Cubase notepad at some point AFTER they’ve heard someone else’s work? I think it’s quite odd you think a notepad entry provides protection (under (C)) but formal registration is useless.
Dates and things like that are irrelevant so what needs to be proven beyond doubt is that from a songs’ inception through to composition and to some extent production; that it can be shown to be the result of ones’ efforts.
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And date is a key factor in that process – it’ only logical