Does anyone know if I can use a cover song in a festival submission? Not the original song (You've Got a Friend by Carol King) but an up and coming artist performing it. Thanks
Distribution : Festival rights to a cover song by Tracee Beebe
Festival rights to a cover song
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Copyright law is a minefield and I'm not convinced that anyone knows all about it as there are many variants. Personally I would use it
I've bprrowed music without permission from everywhere over the last 35 years and managed to to get away with it to date.Full credit was given to the music authors within the credits.i'M NOT SAYING IT'S THE CORRECT THING TO DO HOWEVER IT HAS WORKED FOR ME.
There are master recording rights and master publishing rights. You need to find out who holds the master publishing rights first in your case. Then try to go through the artist who rerecorded the music and work under there master recording rights