

So now with said mechanical license you can sing and cover your little heart out….but obviously someone dropped the ball on the 9cent license and is why Jacquees’ cover was likely removed from SoundCloud.īUT the music video is where things actually went really wrong. In order to reproduce a cover of the sound recording all you need to do is request what is called a mechanical license which by law MUST be given to you and only costs 9.1 cents. The actual song your ear hears is called the Master recording and is likely owned by the record label.

So how do artists cover other people’s songs all the time and how was THIS different?įirst you need to understand song ownership.
