Say you've got what you think to be a great track (it's going to be a while before I have one of these... ), do you post it here for critique without worry that someone will copy the whole thing and sell it/get it signed?

nope. With everybody and his mother being a producer I don't worry about somebody needing to resort to my stuff.

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it depends...

say you have a melody/vocal/feature that is just sublime or very original, with potential to make it onto armada/black hole. i would say that it would be an idea to copyright the main theme.. send it to yourself via recorded delivery and dont open it when it arrives. once it gets to you then you can post samples knowing the idea/track can be proved to be yours . thing is youcan never be sure its that much help cos the court fees will probably cost more than the income you will make from a track..

as a rule i make sure i have copyrighted every piece i make before it goes into the public domain.. just incase, but i will probably never need to prove the tracks are mine because i dont see it happening to me.

copyright is more important for tracks that make the charts, if there was no copyright holder for coldplay then they may lose out on millions from copycats etc..

one crazy thing that i never expected is that i found a russian mp3 store/distrubutor selling copies of my svd rmx (320kbps) that they had downloaded from my website!! along with the three winning rmx's from the recent competition... and spinnin records cant really do much because of russian laws apparently..!

all ill say to keep this from happening to tracks you are really against slipping into the wrong hands is to keep full tracks to a 160kbps or lower bitrate.. then they are no use to illegal stores.

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Ive started posting up just samples of my tracks,not the whole thing...and i'll do that all the time from now on..

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Hell no. Who'd want to copy some random amateur?

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Originally posted by richg101 all ill say to keep this from happening to tracks you are really against slipping into the wrong hands is to keep full tracks to a 160kbps or lower bitrate.. then they are no use to illegal stores.

Not really, they'll just re-encode them.

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery Hell no. Who'd want to copy some random amateur?

me.

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery Not really, they'll just re-encode them.

but they will sound shit thru your speakers and look shit thru a sound spectrum

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i writed a song.

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Originally posted by Endre me.

noob :-P


like what adam says, just post a clip... that can be in high bitrate and it's not really stealable. 2-3 min clip of the middle section of the song should do it.

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Originally posted by KilldaDJ but they will sound shit thru your speakers and look shit thru a sound spectrum

You're missing the point. 99.9% of the people who buy it won't notice, and even if they do, it'll only be after they've bought it, in which case it won't really change anything seeing as the shop wasn't legit to begin with. It's like complaining to the cops about getting ripped off on some bad quality crack.

I'm just trying to promote my tracks and get noticed and if someone were to rip off my song and put it on an album, well that would be some great promo... kinda lame if they didn't use my name...

I've never heard of that happening though...

most of the acts I've talked to, actually put up thier tracks up on p2p sites right away for promotion, cuz they make more money gigging than album sales... at least that's the way it is in the psy trance scene, cuz barely anyone buys music...

average sales of an album is below 5000 copies, apart from some of the bigger acts...

here are my tracks...
http://www.organixproductions.com/aya.html
look but don't touch! he he...

aya.