...and here's the answer regarding a collection of music (ie; album, cd etc):
Unpublished Collections
Under the following conditions, a work may be registered in unpublished form as a “collection,” with one application form and one fee:
* The elements of the collection are assembled in an orderly form;
* The combined elements bear a single title identifying the collection as a whole;
* The copyright claimant in all the elements and in the collection as a whole is the same; and
* All the elements are by the same author, or, if they are by different authors, at least one of the authors has contributed copyrightable authorship to each element.
So, i guess, you can take your entire collection/archive of songs you wrote and copyright them all at once, paying just the one time fee of $45, not bad...
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