Sort of; registration allows for groups of works in the same category.
Registration is not required for protection, though; your songs are protected as soon as they are fixed (notated or recorded).
With a license from the copyright holders, yes.
Perhaps you are trying to download songs that you have not purchased and therefore have the copyright permission to use. Please remember downloading copyright material without paying for it is stealing.
Certain things on the Internet are copyright. This is because it is someone work/ creation and is therefore illegal to use this persons work with out acknowledgement of the creator. Anything which says copyright ( such as artists songs) are copyright.
Not unless you have permission from the copyright holder to do so.
Assuming you have a license from the copyright holder to print the song in your book, you would hold the rights for the book as a compilation.
They're not the same. Copyright is the ability of the owner of the rights in a work to prohibit certain uses of a work. Fair use is the ability of someone to legally use a copyrighted work for certain limited purposes without permission of the copyright owner.
To ensure that we all know how to sing the same songs, we can provide clear and consistent instructions, practice together regularly, and use resources like sheet music or recordings to help us learn and remember the songs accurately.
Some people use Itunes or other ways of buying songs for it.
You must first find out how the band and the songs are being licensed by contacting them. If you do use names and songs there is a potential for legal recourse if the owners feel as though they have been defamed, libeled, or cheated out of copyright royalties and such.
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See the PRS for Music site linked below.
It depends on the translation you're using. In the US, pre-1923 translations are in the public domain, and 1923 and later translations are likely to be protected by copyright.