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Originally Posted by pdurrant
If someone composes a song and then sings it in public without ever writing it down or recording it in some fixed form, even at the performance, then no, it is not covered by any kind of copyright.
Anyone hearing it can immediately go and write it down and claim copyright in the song, even to the extent of preventing the original performer from using it.
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I believe this might be correct, though I'd need to review the copyright laws. And I still might get it wrong, since I'm not a lawyer.
That said, I don't see from a
practical perspective how you'd exercise your copyright for a song that you can't prove you wrote.