Is there a cheap way to copyright your own song lyrics?

If you will, please elaborate.

Is there a cheap way to copyright your own song lyrics?
Wolf is mostly right. Better is to have the postal worker seal the letter up with this special tape they have, and pay the certified rate. He will then immediately have you sign for it, and you walk away with "the poor man's copyright".





Just don't open the envelope until you're actually in court.......
Reply:Actually, anything you originally produce is automatically copyrighted as the Berne Convention Agreement states, "A work does not have to be registered with the Library of Congress to be copyrighted." Although, if you sue a person for copyright infringement and you have not registered your work with the library of congress you can only sue for damages and not for the cost of your legal fees, which if you are battling a media giant, can cost a pretty penny.





To be absolutely safe, go to http://www.copyright.gov/


to register your material. You don't have to pay for each song you produce if you submit it as 1 volume of songs. (i.e. if you submit a whole album, then all the songs on that album are copyrighted and you only pay one fee. )
Reply:Stay away from the companies that offer to do it for you. You don't need them. It's just as easy to do it for yourself, and much cheaper. Directly registering something you have written costs $45. The companies that promise to do it for you will charge you twice as much for something that is easy for you to do yourself.





Visit the government website here: http://www.copyright.gov/





One method that some poets use is to copyright a collection of poems rather than individual poems. The work is still covered, but it costs less. Song lyrics should work the same way, although hopefully the website will clarify that for you. If someone wants to buy an individual song you've written, you can have it copyrighted individually at that time.





Hope this helps!
Reply:A copyright costs $45.00. But for that you can copyright any number of 'works'.


See the Patents and Copyright Office in Washington, D.C.
Reply:date them and mail them to your slef. then save the letter. the postmark will show you had then before anyone else did
Reply:You could publish them as poems at poetry.com, the site automatically copyrights the material to you.