Posts Tagged: "musical works"

On Tuesday, February 23, the United States Copyright Office issued a final rule that creates a new “group” registration option for albums of music and works related to that music. The new option, or  Group Registration for Works on an Album of Music (GRAM) allows applicants to register either a group of up to 20 musical works or a group of up to 20 sound recordings and associated literary, pictorial, or graphic works contained on an album of music. An “album” is defined as “a single physical or electronic unit of distribution containing at least two musical works and/or sound recordings embodied in phonorecords…” Artists can take advantage of the copyright rule to protect their original music beyond the basic protections automatically bestowed to them once it is fixed in a format in which others can hear it.