Duck River Music Group

Songs Wanted

Duck River Music are looking for the following:Duck River Music are looking for the following:

Positive Country
Heartbreak songs as long as there is something positive that comes out of the song.
Christian Country
Contemporary Christian - all genres
All other music, please ask

Songs should present a positive message; the message should build up the listener.

DRM does not accept songs that equate love with/to sex. Nor do we accept songs with hate lyrics.

Music publishing happens when someone records and distributes the song commercially. The song must be recorded and then made available for sale. Until this happens, the song is unpublished. A Publishing company’s (such as Duck River Music) job is to find users (artists, singers etc.), issue licenses, collect money and pay the writer. When a publisher makes a standard deal with a writer, it takes on the obligation to do these things on behalf of the writer. (The Writer can be the Publisher if the writer wants to do these things for himself.)

Copyrights: You have a copyright as soon as you make a tangible copy of a song – tangible meaning something that you can touch. This could be a CD or a tape or the written lyrics and with the notes of the melody on a sheet of paper. This includes all the rewrites that lead to the finished song. The term of the copyright is for the rest of your life plus 70 years. Then it will enter into public domain. The copyright will always belong to the writer. Others may use the song, but the copyright always belongs to you, the writer.

Song Safety – Song Protection: What DRM recommends is that after every significant change made to the song, you take and get it notarized. Continue doing this until you finish the song, put in a safe place and you will have a paper trail that proves the song was in your possession from the very beginning. You can also accomplish this by mailing the developing song at each stage to yourself via registered mail.