unclehando
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what's the process to submit and upload cover songs to sites? i there steps i need to take?
I dont know but I thought 'fair use' only allowed you to use a certain time limit of copywrited material (10 seconds)?? before the owner could take royalties or close it down?Generally speaking, fair use says you can do a cover. You can't SELL a cover. If a party that owns the copy right gives a shit they'll make you take it down. It happens to me one in a hundred times. Tear it up.
I suppose that could be down to if they are popular and watched say on YouTube? If they get lots of views then the owner might see $$$$$. If nobody watches the vids, then its not worth picking up the phone?The key here is "before the owner shuts you down. Unless you're getting lots of traffic (enough to get an owners attention) no one will care. I have hundreds of covers posted on the net. No one cares
That sounds like a updated site...Spotify. (remember the big Napster thing?)Every site that will submit your music to Spotify and the others has song covers in the faqs. Broadly speaking in many territories you can add your version without licences as streaming works differently to downloading. iTunes lets people buy music so you need a licence everywhere people download it. That’s difficult to do. Harry Fox might do the US and PRS will licence
I cant imagine rolling the dice on that, their lawyers werent able to discover this before going to court?I just won a dead cert battle with Sony BMG who claimed rights on one of my releases. I was warned about BIG legal fees and costs but I knew and could prove I wrote it and I recorded it, and I won. How much would Sony’s lawyers have cost me if I had lost?
It was paradise.. Every movie. Every book. Every peice of music..click...click.click(remember the big Napster thing?)
It was dead cert simply because this was not a cover song - I wrote it, I recorded it and I registered the recording and composition with UK PRS and PPL. Sony misidentified it and claimed it, so it was not too hard to hit the button and put the complaint in. I use Shazam - if it misidentifies a recording, mistakes can happen, but this one comes up with my name and my track title - so no idea how Sony attempted to grab it!That sounds like a updated site...Spotify. (remember the big Napster thing?)
I cant imagine rolling the dice on that, their lawyers werent able to discover this before going to court?
Dead cert battle? sounds pretty intense to deal with Sony...wtf?
Copyright owners have right of first refusal prior to publishing, at which point anyone can cover. Typically, royalty rate for cover; (mass) commercial publication by another artist is 75% of full rate, unless they hate your cover (Sinatra probably took full rate when ‘My Way’ was covered by Sid Vicious), then it’s full rate.Generally speaking, fair use says you can do a cover. You can't SELL a cover. If a party that owns the copy right gives a shit they'll make you take it down. It happens to me one in a hundred times. Tear it up.