question about copyrights!!!

[mesobran]

Okay, so this might be a stupid question seeing as I've said before "you have to have the all access pass to be able to use the song because then you have the right to use it", but does that mean that you own the copyrights?  I feel like I must have answered somebody else's question saying "Yes", so I feel stupid now, but I'm totally confused.
Don't you have to pay to have something officially copyrighted?  Or not?  Because a little "c" cannot be all there is to it, right? And if you do have to pay or whatever, do you have to copyright through some specific program or do you just save information... what is there you have to do?  And also, since the all-access-pass says you own the music, does that include the copyrights? 

Sorry if this makes no sense... I feel stupid with all these questions but I honestly have no idea and want to know
Thanks!

[Ant]

Having an all access pass means you own the songs you make and the copyrights to the songs. If you do not have an all access pass Jamstudio owns all rights to all songs and music.

[mesobran]

so if I put the little "C" thingy-ma-bobber, I can say I have all the copyrights and nobody can steal my music?  Is there anything else I should do?  Somewhere somebody said keep track in a document somewhere of the day I copyright stuff... is that true?  Anything else?

Thanks Ant!

[Ant]

  You need to store a time stamp on all your works.That means you need to copy the date,all music,words to a safe place for safe keeping.  you need to find out about copyright laws where you live.This can help you also.

http://creativecommons.org/about/

[mesobran]

thanks ant!  I'm too busy to figure it all out now, but I'll be sure to look into it later so I really appreciate your help!