Covers on RBN

[kingtonyx]

Just to make things clear, what would be the difference in these 3 scenarios?

A) A Day To Remember charts their cover of Since U Been Gone and submits it to RBN.

B) Wavegroup has a cover of Since U Been Gone sitting around, they submit it to RBN.

C) A local band does a cover of Since U Been Gone and submits it to RBN

just wondering

[SonicRocker15X]

For all three, they most likely need to have some legal confirmation that they were allowed to profit from the cover.

[Luur32]

I'm pretty sure they need the rights to make covers (I could be wrong), so the local one might be out of it.

Honestly, I dont know how covers will work.

[skyttskytt]

I don't think there's a problem until a variation of scenario C is that it's a garage band type situation where they recorded it during their private play between themselves and are looking to profit without having obtained the rights to play it.

[snwns26]

I don't know much about this stuff but I believe A and B are cases where the covering artist got permission to cover it and use the song however in C the small band may not have done that for some reason.

I'm interested in knowing if my band covered "Everytime we touch" as a metal song with no vox if we would be able to record it and put it up there without any trouble.

[ShadowChaosControl]

i wonder if an underground/indie band could, my band plays mostly covers, and i at least want something up there, i'm a horrible songwriter

[fatalvendetta]

You have to own the rights to the masters. It says that in the press release and/or the site.

[kingtonyx]

You have to own the rights to the masters. It says that in the press release and/or the site.

right, but all of those bands would own master recordings of their covers

[skyttskytt]

right, but all of those bands would own master recordings of their covers

I think the question at that point is do they own the rights to produce those masters in the first place? It'll be easy to catch the covers of popular songs, but I think it'll be hard to catch garage band A covering garage band B. Then again, who wants to lose a $100 license, as well as be sued if caught?

[ExcessNeo]

right, but all of those bands would own master recordings of their covers

Yes, but you still need permission from the owners of the original recordings to produce a for profit cover song. Otherwise Wavegroup could cover literally every song that is inaccessible as it's original version so we would have the "huge bands" everyone cares so much about.