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- Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies (AARC) - distribution of royalties from home taping and rentals
- American Songwriter Magazine
- ASCAP vs. BMI (also SESAC) - which one to join?
- ASCAP:
- Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA) - Wikipedia article, includes royalty breakdown
- BlankSheetMusic.net - choose your clef, time signature, standard or TAB, etc., and print it out
- BMI:
- Copyrights in Bankruptcy: When Seven Is Not Your Lucky Number
- Durango Songwriter's Expo
- EMI Music Publishing
- Harry Fox Agency (HFA) - for distribution of mechanical royalties
- kissthisguy.com - The Archive of Misheard Lyrics
- Kohn On Music Licensing - answers questions about copyright law, with info about licensing music for Websites, the MP3/Rio controversy, includes lots of relevant links
- Kurzweil CyberArt Technologies - Ray Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet, a computer program that helps you write song lyrics
- Li'l Hank's Guide For Songwriters In L.A. [Hal Cohen]
- Louie, Louie - story of the song, including the original lyrics
- Lyric Rat: Naming that tune in 140 characters or less -
type in the lyrics you remember and this page tells you the name of the song
- Move to Electronic System Means Long Waits at U.S. Copyright Office - 2009 Washington Post article
- MPL Music Publishing
- The Muse's Muse - Songwriting Tips & Tools
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860 [Library of Congress]
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 [Library of Congress]
- Music Publishers' Association:
- National Music Publishers Association
- OpenMikes.org - open mike nights in US and Canada, searchable by ZIP code
- Peer Music
- Doc Pomus [writer of "Little Sister" & other Elvis hits]
- RhymeZone Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus
- SESAC:
- Sheet Music Direct - buy and print out sheet music online
- Sheet Music Plus
- Songwriters Guild of America
- SoundExchange - sign up to get royalties for digital sound performances
- U.S. Copyright Office:
- Warner/Chappell Music
- When U.S. Works Pass Into the Public Domain - chart lists the term of copyright, depending on when the work was created or published
- Worldwide Internet Music Resources: Song Indexes
- Worldwide Internet Music Resources: Song Lyrics; Libretti
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