Hey all, help me out... I'm in a band where the other guitarist and myself write all the songs. Well I want to make sure credit is given where it is due. My idea is for us to copyright all of our songs with Matt and I as the respected song writers. Although our drummer and bass player plays the songs along with us at practice, they had no part in the actual song writing progress. So its kind of like a Lennon/McCartney or Simmons/Stanley thing. Can I still copyright the songs like this but make sure everyone gets credit when we put our cd out? How does it really work. The other reason for copyrighting the songs is, we are very protective and don't want to post the demos on any internet site until they are copyrighted or atleast the copyright has been applied for, since it takes about 3 months. When we finally get a vocalist, they can copyright their lyrics. So it would kind of be like this:

Lyrics by: Mr. Doe
Song by: Matt and Rob
Performed by: us (we don't have a name yet!)

let me know if any of you have dealt with this. I don't want to piss my bass player or drummer off but they just go along with what we play.

Thanks