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Originally Posted by days  A forum on which songwriters can post MP3 files of their songs, and ask for feedback, sounds like a great idea, but I do see at least two potential problems:
(1) Let's say one of the participants posts a song to the forum. Everyone agrees that it's a great song. Encouraged, the songwriter takes a few weeks to refine it, and eventually applies to the Copyright Office for a copyright of the song. However, in the time that he was refining the song, another one of the participants in the forum had already taken the same song (which of course is not his), kept the melody, changed the lyrics, and sent off his own copyright application. |
Which is why you'll never see a pro upload as much as 3 consecutive notes/words from her/his unpublished songs to any forum...
EDIT: Unless, of course, this upload actually could be regarded as Publishing. Time-stamped, and all. Hm.