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Old 08-04-2019, 08:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Mr Bojangles View Post
I plan to record some original songs at a recording studio. How does this affect my rights to the material if the studio were to keep a copy of the recording? What if it were played on a local radio station? My songs are registered with the copyright office in Washington. So far, I'm the only one who has a recording. It was done at my home studio, and is not of professional quality.
No legitimate recording studio will do anything with a client's material without express permission.

In the days of analog, my clients would walk out with all of their tapes.
With digital, I'll transfer everything from my system to the client's drive and then purge the material from mine.
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