carpedm

That kind of defeats the purpose of trying to excel in a songwriting course. Thanks for the reply, but I'll have to find some other solution. So are you saying that by simply creating a blog and posting the lyrics on there prior to posting them in the class, I will be protected?

I just signed up for the Songwriting Course on Coursera.com as a free course offering from Berklee School of Music. The course obviously requires that we pen lyrics each week, so my concern is about writing and "publishing" lyrics without having time to copyright them. Anyone have any information on how I can protect my work while participating in this group?