I might be overly paranoid about this, but I’m hesitant to send some original songs to people via e-mail out of fear that they might get into the wrong hands after being forwarded for the 3rd, 4th, 5th times and be stolen… My name is “encoded” into the songs, but from an intellectual property/copyright standpoint, am I making myself vulnerable by sending songs via e-mail (and which unlike being posted on a website, do not have a written “copyright”)? Is it wiser to simply post the songs to sites like MySpace or Soundclick?

Topics: internet, music, copyright, intellectual property, musicians, songwriters