Protect Your Music!
You've put your time and effort into
your music,
make sure you protect yourself.
A copyright is the only way to ensure
that you are legally recognized as the author and owner of your music.
Learn more about copyrighting
your music.
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Protect Your Band!
You've put your time and effort into your band,
make sure you protect yourself.
You can protect your band name and/or logo with a
trademark (a service mark is a type of trademark). A trademark provides significant protection and costs more
than a copyright. A copyright will protect the artistic aspects of
your music, while a trademark will protect your band name as a musical
artist. This provides you with great protections in the US and
significant protections in most countries. Learn more about trademarks.
The government is very strict about how it issues trademarks. They
limit trademarks by putting things into different classifications of
goods and services. A trademark covers only a very limited set of
goods or services. Live performances and musical CDs are in different
classes. One government fee only covers one of the categories, if you
wish to cover both, you will need to pay two fees.
Many bands have many trademarks to cover all of their types of goods
and services (for example, Metallica has 42 trademarks) but most only
have one, two, or three. Many bands choose only to have their live
musical performances covered if they only cover one and add music CDs
as their second (You must have at least two CDs in order to trademark
for CDs). We can cover the other later as well as any additional
categories (many bands choose to cover clothing as the third category
to cover). Learn more about trademarks.
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Make sure you can use your band name!
Search Trademark and Copyright Records Now!
Can you legally use that name?
Can you register that name as a trademark?
Make sure that you are not infringing on someone
else's trademark - have Register My Copyright conduct a Trademark and
Copyright Search!
Register My Copyright no longer registers trademarks. For trademark
help, please visit Augustyn
Law Office.
Please note that Register My Copyright and Augustyn Law Office
share an owner/principal and that this reference to Augustyn Law
Office is not a recommendation or referral.
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