Copyright protection attaches as soon as you fix
the song in a "tangible medium."
Though many folks are still under the
misapprehension that you have to register your work with Copyright Office to
"copyright"
it, that hasn't been true for decades. Generally speaking, if you scribble
something on a sheet of paper and then someone comes around and copies it,
they've violated your copyright in the scribble.
On the other hand, if you're just riffing in
your bedroom and someone comes by, listens in through your window, and then
copies your song, you're probably not going to win on your copyright claim. If
you riffed and then recorded it, wrote down the music notation, etc., then you
would have secured the copyright at that time.
Note, though, that although registration isn't
necessary to protect your work via the Copyright Act, it is a precondition to
suing in federal court. So if you write down a song in 2001, discover that
someone copied it in 2011, you'd have to register the copyright (even in 2011
or 2012) before you could sue on it. Statutory damages would also be limited to
the date you registered onward (i.e., you wouldn't be able to claim statutory
damages from 2001 to present).
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Source: Quora
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