Copyrights of Songs, Music and Lyrics registered and recorded. Copyright Certificates and Authors Contracts Issued
How to Register Your Copyrights
Overview
Your songs, music or lyrics can be registered with The Songrite Copyright Office directly online or by regular post.
You register a copyright by completing the appropriate registration form and sending it or uploading it to the Songrite Copyright Office, along with a copy of the work to be registered. For postal applicants, a form and detailed instructions for completing it as well as the current fee schedule can be found by clicking here Registration Forms.
We register copyright ownership of work in the belief and understanding that the person or persons named as the author/s is or are the original creator/s or owners of the submitted work.
Registering your work online is a simple process, however you must become a member to use this facility, membership is free and takes a few moments to complete. Once you are logged into our secure page you simply upload your work following the instructions carefully.
- Once we receive your uploaded work, we process it and check to confirm it has uploaded correctly and in its entirety.
- We will contact you by Email at the earliest opportunity to confirm receipt of your application.
- If all the required elements are in order we will then bill you.
- Once the fee has been paid we will issue you with a Copyright Certificate and an Authors Safe Keeping Contract which is mailed to you via Royal Mail.
To register your work online click here Log on / Create Account
Registering your work by mail is just as simple, first of all fill out the appropriate registration form on the registrations page and click send. then package your work securely and mail it to Songrite remembering to include all the components required. Further information can be found on our Submissions page
To complete the registration by mail and receive your English Copyright Certificate you will need to submit a hard copy of the work you wish to register, details of how to submit can be found on the Submissions page
Important
An application either online or by regular mail must contain the following information
- The name and a complete address of the owner of the copyright: some authors prefer to use pen names, rather than their real names, on their published works. You may include your pen name on your application for registration, but you must also give your full legal name. This is necessary because, without your legal name, it would be difficult to determine the full duration of the copyright, i.e., your lifetime plus 50 years.
- The title/name of the work
- A list of the tracks to be registered
- Number of tracks (Only applicable if registering an album)
- A declaration that the applicant is one of the following: the author of the work; the owner of the copyright in the work; an assignee of the copyright; or a person to whom an interest in the copyright has been granted by licence.
Some authors prefer to use noms de plume, or pen names, rather than their real names, on their published works. Pen names may be included on the application for registration, but the author’s full legal name is required. The latter is required in order to assist in the calculation of the duration of the rights which are based on the lifetime of the author
To ensure the registration details are recorded accurately - you must include all the information and components requested. see Submissions page
What the registration covers
Normally, each song, book, recording, etc., is considered a separate work and requires a separate application and fee. However, if you are registering an album of up to a fourteen tracks, you may register the album as one work.
Copyright registration becomes effective on the date this Copyright Office receives all the required components in an acceptable form as outlined, regardless of how long it then takes to process the application and mail the certificate of registration. The time our Copyright Office requires to process an application varies, depending on the amount of material the copyright department is receiving
We register the copyrights of songs,music lyrics and poetry only.
We reserve the right to refuse to accept any work/compositions we consider to be in direct breach of any known or existing copyright.
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