When you write some music, you should always get a copyright on it when you finish it so that way if someone tries to steal your work you will have proof that it is yours. When you make a copyright on your work, all of your stuff is secured under copyright for as long as the longest living survivor plus 70 years. If you have copyrights on your work it means that someone can't steal your work while you are still alive or just after you die. The next current year for public domain music won't be until January 1, 2019. Public domain is someplace where you can find unproved un-copyrighted songs while the proof of the public domain is songs that actually have been proved to expire from their copyright. A few rules for copyright would be don't reproduce music if the copyright hasn't expired, and don't play un-copyrighted music in public even if yoru own the CD.
http://www.pdinfo.com/copyrt.php
One famous case of song theft would be when this guy was in the bathroom singing his new song, and his roomate was outside and can hear him, and writes his song down and claims it as his song. Althought the roomate didn't get a copyright, and the songwriter was able to go to the copyright office and get it copyrighted, so the roomate didn't get very far with the song in his hands.
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