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How does copyright apply to music?

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Music is one of the types of work protected by copyright, which means only the creator has the right to copy, alter, distributed, or perform the music, or authorize others to do so.
Sound recordings are also protected, so any given recording can have many copyrightable elements: the tune and lyrics (together or separately), the arrangement or orchestration, and the particular performance.

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