I hope you guys don't have the notion that the person who puts music to a lyric does not have the right to copywrite the music and own a cowrite of the completed song. The composer does have that right.
Only if it is a work for hire does the melody writer give up that right and it needs to be in a written agreement.
IANAL
but that is
IMHO

Last edited by Bill Robinson; 09/26/10 10:56 AM.

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