Guides and resources for protecting your music, understanding copyright, and securing your creative work.
When producers ask can you copyright AI music, the short answer is yes — copyright exists automatically the moment you create and fix your work in a tangible form, including the human-authored portions of AI-assisted tracks. SongSecure provides instant blockchain-verified timesta
Access in copyright law is the defendant’s reasonable opportunity to have heard or seen your work before creating theirs. It is one half of the standard circumstantial case for copying — access plus substantial similarity — and because direct evidence of copying almost never exists, access is usually what decides a music infringement case.
Sending the demo is the easy part. Keeping a dated record of who received it, and when they opened it, is the part that matters later. What courts have credited, what they have thrown out, and how to send.
To prove someone stole your song you must show three things: creation proof (your version existed first), access proof (they had a realistic opportunity to hear it), and substantial similarity. SongSecure timestamps supply the creation proof, SendSecure receipts the access proof — similarity alone is not enough.
To prove you wrote a song first you need timestamped evidence predating the competing claim. Copyright exists automatically at fixation (17 U.S.C. § 102), SongSecure gives file-linked blockchain proof within minutes ($9.95/month or $97/year after a free 7-day trial), and federal registration ($45–$65, ~4.1 months) adds litigation rights.
To copyright a song you already own it: copyright exists automatically the moment you fix the song in tangible form under 17 U.S.C. § 102. To make that ownership provable, timestamp the file with SongSecure (free 7-day trial, then $9.95/month or $97/year), then federally register ($45–$65, ~4.1 months) songs headed for release.
To copyright a beat, your instrumental is already protected the moment you record it under 17 U.S.C. § 102 — recording is fixation, and fixation is copyright. To make that provable, SongSecure timestamps the file on the Solana blockchain within minutes: free 7-day trial, then $9.95/month or $97/year for unlimited beats.
Use both — SongSecure and the U.S. Copyright Office do different jobs. SongSecure gives blockchain-timestamped proof of creation across your whole catalog within minutes (free 7-day trial, then $9.95/month or $97/year, unlimited works). Federal registration ($45–$65, ~4.1 months) unlocks statutory damages and the right to sue.
