WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SOUND RECORDING AND A MUSICAL COMPOSITION?

For the purposes of copyrighting your work you should know what it means when someone says musical composition versus sound recording. According to the United States Copyright Office at http://www.copyright.gov/register/pa-sr.html “A Musical Composition consists of music, including any accompanying words, and is normally registered as a work of performing arts. The author of a musical composition is generally the composer and the lyricist, if any. A musical composition may be in the form of a notated copy (for example, sheet music) or in the form of a phonorecord (for example, cassette tape, LP, or CD). A Sound Recording results from the fixation of a series of musical, spoken, or other sounds. The author of a sound recording is the performer(s) whose performance is fixed, or the record producer who processes the sounds and fixes them in the final recording, or both.” Therefore, as stated on the website, the copyright in a sound recording is not the same as, or a substitute for
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