Would this work?

Ive been in the process of getting all my stuff tight to get ready to start letting people get rights to use my beats but want to be covered.

I was going to put all my beats on a cd and copywrite it as a collection.
The way I would be covered is in the contract I have wrote up is to never give the artist the copywrite to the beat. They may have "exclusive rights" to do what they want with the beat but they will never own the beat.

It seems like this would work.
Im looking for some opinions.

im not sure but if you put all your tracks on a cd and call it a collection, its a copyright for the whole thing meaning you are good but if you was to ever sell the beat then you would have to file another copyright for the individual track, but if its stolen your good because the track is under the collection copyright. check with an attorney tho!

If I remember right, you can fill out an SR Short Form and copyright numerous soungs as a "compilation"....and only pay 1 fee.

But, if there's a song that you KNOW will do well, and I mean WELL it would probably be best for you to have that one copywritten alone.

Like you said, the artist would have exclusive rights to the beat and not own it, unless you sold them the actual copyright to it. Get it?

I would think that would be touch and go....

You have to think from an artists perspective also, most think "exclusive" means they OWN it...So you would have to make that very clear and then to be honest if they dont own it why would they pay top dollar for the beat??? alot of producers "lease" beats, did you plan on doing that? because if you did most artists would rather pay xx.xx to lease a beat then xxxxx.xx for an exclusive they techniccly dont even own....not saying it cant be done, but your ish better be bonkers because it is a flooded market where some producers work for peanuts and beer....

"If your pockets aint intact, rewrite the contract" - HH

As far as the copyrighting goes, if you have a hit on your hands I would just copyright it as "1" single....

but those beats that are so/so ones you would post on the internet or let people download off sites etc. basically your throwaways just copyright them as a collection.....

im no attorney by all means, matter of fact I need one lol, but I have picked up on alot of things and this is the way I handle it....hope it helped...