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Copyright

i read in a post (named the same as this one) that you are intiteled to all the rights on a piece of music made on noteworthy as long as it was a registered copy.the bulk of the music i have written i wrote on the evaluation program but i now own the registered version, does this mean i still have all the rights?

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Reply #1
Having the rights to a piece of music does not depend on whether you have registered the software you created (or arranged) it on, it depends on whether you composed it originally or someone else composed it originally and you are making an arrangement of it.  If someone else composed it and it is not in the public domain, then you have no rights to it unless you buy those rights from the copyright holder.  You might look on the web sites of ASCAP and BMI for how to contact copyright holders and ask permission to use arrangements of their pieces.  If you composed them, fire at will!

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Reply #2
thanks much

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Reply #3
When moving from the evaluation to full version of NWC, it is a good idea to open your existing work and save it with the registered version. This will ensure that the files are marked as fully licensed, and will work with our other utilities and future versions of NWC.