revdave Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Hi all, Questions for content creators. (I figured Logic Pro Help was a perfect place to ask this.) http://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-match/ It seems that when you use iTunes Match, if it doesn't know about a song, such as your own writing collaborations/creations, finished masters and incomplete song demos etc., it will upload them to iCloud and be available on your other devices. - Is there any official word from Apple as to what happens concerning your personal music creations and iTunes Match? - Do these personal song creations ever show up beyond your own iCloud Account? Is there a possibility of them showing up in public? - I imagine that we would still have full ownership of them - wouldn't we? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeRobinson Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 (edited) You (almost) always have ownership of whatever you create, but nevertheless I never allow a sound-file to go anywhere outside of my computer but that there is a copyright-notice in the metadata. (Ordinarily, a music player will display that information while the song plays.) And, yes, I assemble a collection and spend my $35.00 to register them all with the US Copyright Office. (Incidentally; this notion of a "collection" is simply for administrative practicality ... to make the Office's workload more manageable. For $35.00 you can register (almost) as many works at the same time as you wish. The registration applies, jointly and severally, to all of them. There is no legal concept of a "collection.") See: http://www.copyright.gov.) iTunes Match, as I read it, is not "publishing" anything, because no one other than the subscriber is able to retrieve from their account. Nevertheless, when any file of mine wings its way beyond the boundaries of my home, it's got a © around its neck. Edited November 30, 2016 by MikeRobinson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revdave Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 Thanks much for the info Mike - very helpful indeed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Monkey Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 I always register everything with the Library of Congress as well. It is the best practice for anyone creating intellectual property for public view/broadcast/consumption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Monkey Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 I never allow a sound-file to go anywhere outside of my computer but that there is a copyright-notice in the metadata. Mike, how do you access the metadata to place the copyright notice in the sound file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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