Unfortunately, there are no set prices for this kind of thing – we don’t even have a pricing scale available! Sometimes you can get it for free, and other times it’s going to cost you dearly. Typically, in order to acquire a sync license, you just need to ask the publisher. Well… this means you’re getting some attention, and this also means there’s more of a chance that your covers will get some legal attention. To The Moderately-To-Very-Well-Known Artist: What’s your YouTube view count? Maybe 7000 to 10000 views? More? Awesome. But the reality is that – with the constant flow of unsolicited uploads and covers of popular music – yours is likely not going to be caught in the music business fishnet. To The Unknown Artist: I’m not condoning breaking the law. MakeUseOf shared two scenarios for posting cover songs to YouTube: If you want to post a video of your cover to YouTube and you think there’s a chance more than a few people will watch it, you’ll need a synchronization license, which covers the combination of the sound with a visual experience. Loudr currently offers up to 5,000 downloads through their system, but if you need more you can email them directly at īut there is a common case where you might need more than just a mechanical license. If you need more you have to go directly to the publisher. Songfile and Easy Song Licensing will only issue licenses up to 2,500 downloads. Every service will then pass 100% of those royalties along to Oasis’ publisher. So if you think you’ll sell 1,000 downloads of your Oasis cover, you would pay $91 up front + the service fee. Using these services, you estimate how many downloads/CDs you will sell and pay that amount x 9.1 cents (the mechanical royalty rate set by the US government – if the song is under 5 minutes). Loudr and Easy Song Licensing will hunt these licenses down for you. So if you want to cover an obscure German band (with no US representation) or a hot indie act out of Boston who doesn’t have a publisher, you wouldn’t be able to through HFA. HFA represents most publishers (in America), but not all. The biggest difference between Loudr, Easy Song Licensing and Songfile is that Songfile will only issue licenses for songs they represent.
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Ari Herstand reviewed three services who will help acquire that license for around $15: Loudr, Songfile, and Easy Song Licensing. These days, getting a mechanical license to reproduce a song is incredibly simple. release a ‘cover’) as long they secure a mechanical license and pay the owner of the musical work a ‘mechanical royalty’ (currently 9.1 ¢ per copy of the song). Once an artist releases their musical work, anyone can create and distribute their own sound recording of the work (i.e. Hypebot explains how a mechanical license works: It actually dates back to the days of player pianos, when you were literally reproducing the sound of the song mechanically! The article covers the history of the most common kind of license you’ll need to release a cover: the mechanical license. There’s little room for lawyers or lawsuits in this system, because the rules are clear and universally applied.
The statutory rate is set by a board of arbitrators, three “copyright royalty judges” appointed by the Librarian of Congress, and is adjusted from time to time to maintain its relative value. What’s more, the royalty rate is always the same-it’s “statutory,” meaning fixed and not subject to individual negotiation-no matter who covers the song and how many (or few) copies they sell. But if you do cover a song, you must pay a royalty to the song’s creator (that’s the licensing part). Anyone can cover anyone else’s song, and its creator cannot say no (that’s the compulsory part). There are rules about cover versions The system is called compulsory licensing. In an op-ed arguing for new regulation that encourages both musical collaboration and acknowledging ownership, Pitchfork explains just how clear-cut the rules about covering a song are: Unlike the more complicated forms of musical imitation involved in those lawsuits, covering a song is actually quite straightforward.Ī “cover” is a new performance of a previously recorded song by someone other than the original artist with the lyrics and basic melody left intact. Perhaps inspired by the recent rash of high-profile copyright cases, a bunch of our favorite music blogs have lately been providing interesting tips for legally recording and performing covers of other musician’s songs. + Improve your songwriting with Soundfly! Explore our range of courses on emotional chord progressions, basic songwriting technique, songwriting for producers, and many more.
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