Giving Out Beat Cd's

Should you voice tag your beats? Copywrite? I have no clue...and if i use samples i cant copywite can I? What do i do? Any help is appreciated.

It's a professional, effective way to prevent bootlegers from jacking you sh*t. But maybe you want bootlegers to jack it. If this is the case, then you still need to make sure everyone knows who produced the track. Now theese dudes is really wack...but think about Jazzy Fizzle and Lil Jon. They always put thier voice on thier tracks. If your stuff gets popular on the street, give everyone a way to find you.

Just pull a mike jones and give out your number or say your name a few times.. That should help.

but like if u say sent an demo to a label or anywehre like professional, but use samples should u voice tag or would they not want to hear that?

Copyrighting your beats is a tricky thing because once the Artist records his or her voice it become a new copyright. So the only way to avoid that is to lease your beats and add a hook so you can copyright it as a song. Don't give away beat CDs unless you know the person and you can document it. Give them away to producers, and record label execs and A&Rz. Keep making trax and make sure every submission counts.

thanks but my main question remains unanswered, should you tag beats you send to A&R's, producers, labels, or not? or does that not sound professional?

man dont worry bout that shit. if your good, just keep handing em out and they will hit the right ears. **** vocal tags casue it makes most peoples shit i think sound amatuer. I just whipped out a batch of beat tapes today. im gonna just hand em to my friends and the djs in the area. and maybe throw it up on my blog.

you can copyright your sample based sh*t but you just can't display it to a public audience or some sh*t like that. muddy water if you ask me but let em sue me i' don't give a fuk. what are they gonna take?

Tru4LifeRecords wrote:Copyrighting your beats is a tricky thing because once the Artist records his or her voice it become a new copyright. So the only way to avoid that is to lease your beats and add a hook so you can copyright it as a song. Don't give away beat CDs unless you know the person and you can document it. Give them away to producers, and record label execs and A&Rz. Keep making trax and make sure every submission counts.

Yeah, but if you obtain copyrights to your beats prior to the vocal recording process, don't you have leverage for legal action?? I know somebody that successfully took legal action when one of his copyrighted beats was used w/o permission. I do know however, what you are sayin though, once your instras end up in too many hands good luck stoppin that bullsh*t. Just reminded me of some chick I know that was trying to rap but just didn't have it together. She was tryin to record over 2-tracks she got from her boyfriend (a skilled MC). Dude had got the beats from a pretty serious producer. That's what you gotta watch out for cats handin out your beats to other jokers like its all fun and games and sh*t....

big ups to everyone for help. what would i do without ya mpc-forums.com???