There is only a danger in not recognizing you have both legal and moral rights to your creations. Legal rights are usually designed for remuneration, whereas moral rights ensure integrity of intent. This means your song praising the Prime Minister cannot be used in a hate campaign against the Prime Minister unless you authorize it. You may not care if people copy your work without payment or credit, but you should be concerned about your work resulting in negative association towards you.

I didn’t want to get into a heavy legal discussion when my post was a random thought about my peers using an inconsistent copyright statement, but it is definitely an important issue to address. Thanks for bringing it up.

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