Thinking about the afri-Inleo Initiative 42 which is tagged musical theft, you will have to think about what that really means and why the topic was chosen. But I am not going towards that direction today, but I will be sticking to the musical theft aspect. To start which, I will be defining music theft to my own best of understanding but saying, the act of taking someone else's music and using it for your own. It can be the lyrics of a song or the way the music was structured and so on. It can also be tagged as stealing someone musical work to show as your own without giving the credits to the original owner.
You know, music is not something so easy to do because composing music is not really easier. Getting lyrics together and doing arrangements and then making it look so melodious to be ear and other takes a lot of things, then imagine you are doing all of these and someone came from nowhere to steal them from you. It will be my great pleasure to sue that person because such person is stealing from what I have labored for. Well, not that you can't make use of people music when it has been created, but there are ways to do that.
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First, to make use of music and avoid musical theft, you first need to seek the Indulgence of the original composer of the song and then make them aware that you love their work, and you would like to make use of that they have done. But if it's not possible for you to contact such person, you need to create a tag or make a reference to show that you made use of their work. To avoid theft, you can also just make use of a line of the work they have done and then create your own work over it in this way, it won't look like you stole their work because music is creativity. What they have done might have motivated you to doing your own, just use what has motivated you and not steal all what they have done.
To avoid musical theft you can register with the copy right affairs, in this process you will be able to be rest assured that your documents are safe and are in the right hands. A lot of people have done this and this has saved them from future issues that might want to arise against them. For instance, I composed a music, and then I didn't check well to be sure no one has done this music before. Copyright ©️ will help you to be safe and be rest assured that you have every right to your music whenever so long you are registered with them.
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If we don't have the authority over our music, and then it leads to theft, it can devalue our business in the sense that people will see you as a thief, and then they will feel you lack creativity of creating your own music. It can even lead to loss of income because when you can't promote your music and people and even scared of downloading it, then you won't be able to make money from it. So to be safe and be rest assured that nothing will go wrong, we must have a copyright approval in doing music to avoid music theft from anywhere.