Those who are new to this pod, please read this!

Hi Everyone,
Alex and I really love having your participation in this pod, but to keep things functioning safely for all those who are wanting to create healing music, we probably need to establish some ground rules to this pod.
If you have music you would like pod members to hear and comment on, please make sure your music is copyrighted. You can do that by contacting the:
Register of Copyrights
Library of Congress
Washington DC 20559
And asking for a Form PA.
(You can send in a bunch of songs as a suite: “ie. Suite A” and that way you can copyright it all for the price of processing the form, which is about $30, instead of paying $30. per song)

If you have lyrics that you want to copyright, you can just say the lyrics onto a tape and do the same, or copyright them in the same way that you would any written work.

Please do not put on the pod lyrics that are not copyrighted.

If you want to put a poem on the pod, and it is just like your words of comment, as an audience, feel free to state that and thereby leaving it open to public domain, that’s fine. Maybe it will inspire some of our artists to use your words in a song.
Otherwise…
Those actually working with creating healing music, I will expect that what comes on the pod is copyrighted by you in every way. If you are entering something here that you want to be heard as healing music, please state that, and have it copyrighted. Even if it is something that sounds like Alex’s uncle’s work (John Cage), and is just an exploration of silence.

Sorry that things have to be so official but we want this space to work well for all those who are putting in their time and energy to make healing music happen in ways that can reach out and heal the world!

If you want us to see your lyrics, please state that these are lyrics that you are putting out for everyone to see! (copyrighted please!)

If you are commenting on something, please indicate what you are commenting on, that way the artist of the piece can know you are talking to them, and the other members of the pod can follow the flow the way is was intended.

Welcome, and blessings on all of your creativity!