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Songwriting Roles

Understand the different ways to contribute to songwriting

Each role may bring something original into the musical work.


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Under National laws that protect creators' and other rights holders' moral and economic rights in musical works, performances, and sound recordings., all songwriting roles may qualify as A person who makes an original contribution to a work protected under copyright law., and each author may be entitled to a share of the The controls creators or rights holders have over what they have created or produced and over their identity and image. in the musical work unless agreed otherwise.

What determines whether you qualify as an author in the applicable National laws that protect creators' and other rights holders' moral and economic rights in musical works, performances, and sound recordings., is whether your contribution is part of what makes the musical work A creative contribution to a musical work that is sufficiently distinct from any pre-existing musical work, and what was agreed between the songwriters, thus the authors and A company that represents songwriters, supporting their career development, monetizing musical works, and protecting copyrights. ​​​.

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