Copyright Notice With Multiple Years/writers?

writeandwrong · January 21, 2013

Hi. In 1985 I co-wrote a song with a guy. In 2013, my current co-writer rewrote the music and I rewrote half of the original lyrics.

Copyright law says that 1/2 of the full song is still shared with the first cowriter...so now there are 3 of us.

When I write up a lyric sheet or we post the song as a whole, how to we notate the copyright message?

Here is an example of how I currently have it:

Is this wrong? Can I have it all on one line as in:

Now that there is the new co-writer, that does not change the original copyright, correct?

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!

Jena

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