: Re: Are music lyrics copyrighted? I tried to find copyright information about music lyrics, but it is too confusing, because it is related to the usage. There are lots of websites providing lyrics,

@Megan928

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Music lyrics are "poems," and are therefore copyrightable independent of music.

That makes it invalid to say that "the main part of a song is its music rather than lyrics." There's little or no truth to that argument, and even if there was, it would not prevent lyrics from being copyrighted.

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