Music copyrights are the key to allowing you to sell your music commercially, as well as prevent plagiarism, unlicensed sampling and other infringement on your right as the creator of the work.
"Her hook is the same hook as mine," said R&B singer Jesse Graham about the Taylor Swift song. "If I didn't write the song 'Haters Gone Hate,' there wouldn't be a song called 'Shake It Off.'"
"Monkeys don't own copyrights," said Wikimedia Foundation's CCO Katherine Maher. "What we found is that U.S. copyright law says that works that originate from a non-human source can't claim copyright."
