Originally Posted by: Ebonius
Question: When music is copyrighted and published, don't "they" create a piece of sheet music to establish their copyright claim? Can musicians find the original copyrighted piece of music by looking it up somewhere? Is there a sure-fire resource for finding all sheet music that has been published?

It doesn't need to be written down to be considered copyrighted. All they have to do is record it.

Most stuff isn't written out, so you won't find sheet music for it. Tabs are your best bet, but that is all done by other people. So you have to hope they tabed it right.