Legal Advocate and hobbyist song writer Clyde Brownej explains:

“I assume you’re familiar with the publishing laws, no more than 49 copies of a document without a publishing license.  Well, for legal purposes a musical composition is a document, which means it’s subject to scrutiny by a licensed publisher, who is subject to Cultural Bureau regulation, or go through the Cultural Bureau itself as publisher or for publication pre-approval.

“So, as songs are considered fictional works by default, they’re subject to the Cultural Bureau’s Realism in Fiction regulations for approved content.

“It’s possible to navigate the regulations and get a Naturalist, that’s any non-Realist work, approved, but it’s a lot of effort and I’ve only ever bothered doing it for clients, not for myself.”