"Irene Jackson" wrote in message
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"Sock Puppet #4" wrote in message
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I only caught the tail-end of this thread, but... does one album
constitute a single copyrightable item, or is it per song necessarily?

Perhaps on a per-CD content basis?

Well, you can copyright a "collection" of songs for the price of one
copyright. There's also copyright for sound recording, which is a little
different.

You can indeed copyright a collection of songs with a single copyright --
call it "Folio #1" or something like that. The advantage is obvious -- it's
cheap. The disadvantage is that the individual song titles won't show up in
the Copyright Office's database, so someone searching for one of your titles
won't find it. Whether that is important to you is, of course, up to you,
depending on what you foresee doing with your songs.

Peace,
Paul