digital timestamp ?

[Zoiberg]

I'm considering using digital timestamp to prove authorship.

What do you use?
Is there any other way to prove that you are the original creator of a song?

[Zoiberg]

I know there's registeredcommons.org, but it doesn't work reliably yet (I'm not able to upload my files).

Am I the only one worried about author rights when using creative commons licences?

[markojux]

I'm considering using digital timestamp to prove authorship.

What do you use?
Is there any other way to prove that you are the original creator of a song?

Yes.. to have the origional produced track on you machine.

[sebastianh]

yes Zoiberg youre nearly the only one. as Markojux said you have the original files on your machine. what people sometimes do too is burning cds, write the track on it and send it the oldschool way as a letter to their own adress. if ever somebody would ask about copyrights youll open the letter then ;-)
and if people are dump enough to sample or copy your stuff they will feel the power of that forum again ;-)

[Zoiberg]

Sending a cd within an envelope is not legally valid because the post stamp is not on the cd.

Ok, consider this: one of the tunes from your netlabel get used commercially (i.e. for ads), then someone else claims authorship and you have to prove that you are the creator.

[sebastianh]

but that could always happen that somebody tries to claim the authorship... its not only a netlabel problem...
of course you could use digital timestamps but there are many ways to prove who the author is...

does anybody knows a good way to do it?

[Zoiberg]

It's mostly a netlabel problem because we use CC licenses and we are not obliged to deposit our songs to collecting societies (like SIAE, GEMA).

[Daniel Logikal]

For Pinksilver Net I always write the artist's name as the copyright owner in the id3 tags.

OK, it can easily be deleted by any user, but it clearly states it on the file.

If anybody finds a reliable way to timestamp please let me know.