Q: What can I do someone took my words and put them into YouTube videos but they are my words
There has been music playing on YouTube and it has my words in them.what can I do to get the money that was made . Also merkules he wrote and slandered my name in his music videos.. also there was a man named Cody in his stompdown video that I worked with at McDonald's in Lewisburg wv .
A:
It depends and you need to invest in an attorney to figure out your options and rights.
How many words? how unique are those words? is it a whole song?
did you copyright it?
all these things have a weight on the property of the creation.
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