ALT Blue background with yellow, red, blue, and white graphic of record player, clouds, and musical notes. Text: Find Your Voice: Copyright Essentials for Musicians, Recording Now Available.

ALT Laptop screen displays Copyright Public Records search webpage. To the left of the laptop is a stack of three books and a plant. Text reads, "LEVEL UP Your Copyright Public Records Search."

ALT Black and white photograph of Thomas Edison with an early prototype of the phonograph, dated February 19, 1878. Edison is standing next to the device, placed on a table. Photo: Library of Congress.

ALT Black and white image of a P.C. Goldmark phonograph record (vinyl LP) dated August 23, 1960.

ALT Robert Moog posing with his synthesizer, a complex electronic musical instrument with numerous knobs and cables, in 1964. Courtesy of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

ALT A black and white illustration of a man playing an electric guitar on stage, with enthusiastic fans' hands visible in the foreground. The drawing includes labels pointing to various parts of the guitar and its support straps. The drawing was submitted as part of Edward L. Van Halen's patent.