![]() Please note that we are not lawyers and all of this information is offered informally. Determining who owns and administers a song. ![]() Getting print permissions for books, periodicals, songsheets, etc.Obtaining mechanical licenses for audio recordings(CDs).Here are separate articles on specific kinds of copyright issues: Large music corporations, on the other hand, are often very difficut to license songs from and the fees involved may be prohibitive. You can find websites for most such songwriters online including contact information. If the song is written and owned by a singer songwriter in the folk music community then the chances are good that they will be happy to license your usage for a reasonable fee, perhaps even for free if they support the purpose of your book. If you wish to actually publish a songbook of any kind we strongly urge you to take the time it takes to obtain permission. All rights are reserved by the own copyright holder of each song. Our publishers (Sing Out for Rise Up Singing and Hal Leonard for Rise Again) obtained licenses to reprint all the songs in the book for that publication only. We do not own, control, or administer the rights to any of the songs in these songbooks.
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