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> Ok, could someone tell me what's the difference between the
> following....?
>
> (c) A Big Company
> (p) Another Big Company
> and Published by Yet Another Big Company
This has always been my impression and knowledge gained from books
(many published in the '90s):
(C) copyrights written material, such as lyrics in songs, and musical
compositions in written form. (P) copyrights the actual recorded song
and its sounds...which is good for today's sampling technology.
I believe (C) may protect the audio recording in someway, also...some sort
of standard overall protection of a musical work. I'm not sure...
But, to (P) something, you have to send in the work on an audio-recording
medium (cassette) to the copyright office (Library of Congress here in the US,
I believe).
In the old days, songwriter (lyrics), composer (music), and vocalist &
performer were usually separate. But nowadays, these are usually combined
into one person or band, so they alone are writer, composer and performer
all. But there're some who still do it the traditional way...so in this
case, the lyrics and written musical composition are (C) copyrighted, and
the actual audio output of the performane is (P) copyrighted.
As far as collection agency for types of royalties, I believe Harry Fox
is a big one here in the US... ASCAP and BMI are something also here in the
US, but I have yet to figure out what these are all about... :)
Are (C) + (P) items used in the UK? It's strange that I rarely, if ever,
see these on import records...
-djkc