How Can I Keep Adding New Songs To A Collection On Eco?

[Vargas]

I am writing about 1 song per day, trying to get 3 projects off the ground (tired of being a sideman). 

 

I remember a producer once telling me that he would just add new songs to an existing collection (I'm pretty sure he called it "volume") as he completed each demo for spec songs I was working on for him. I want to do that same thing with my own songs now.

 

I.e. I want to copyright my first 3 songs right now. Then, as I complete each song, I want to add it to the same $35 claim, so that I'm not paying a lot of $ per song - I will be the sole composer and lyricist on somewhere between 30-50 songs. Basically I want to know how I can dump all my songs over the next few months into one claim [or a very few claims] and have them protected as soon as I finish them without spending $1750 on copyright registration with no money coming in for these projects.

 

I am concerned about protection because I want to bring in friends to play on the demos and have more experienced producers and artists workshop some songs with me. Obviously anyone who would give me their time is a friend, but then again everyone who has really ripped me off or hurt me in my life was someone close...

 

So - how to do it? How can I keep adding songs to a collection without filing a new claim each time?