stevec
Yeah, about those royalties...  doesn't that somehow involve money?    If so, has anyone here ever been paid directly from a cover song posted on SoundCloud?    I only have one posted myself, but now I'm curious if I'm missing out on something...

Sound Cloud is making money, so yea... there is a cash flow, just like the radio... and once they get sued.. and people with account re read their user agreement and realize that they agreed to be responsible.... so yes... 

this really is a great question that could be debated all day..
So tell you what.. I will ask ASCAP... Well I already did... just waiting for a reply...
 
 
oh, I will let everyone know what they say... well those who are not contacted by them directly...

i paid royalties (mechanical license) to Harry Fox agency for my 'bad moon rising' cover.
 
that's the way you do it.
 
the laws on selling covers is pretty straight forward.
 
recording them for fun?
who cares?
 

Here's a couple terms you may want to familiarize yourself with...
 
Fair use
 
Monetization
 
Also I think you'll find the royalty agencies have more important things to do with their time than go after what amounts to the internet equivalent of a weekend garage band playing joke covers for fun.
 
All you are doing, if you even get a reply, is hurting the bottom line of other musicians those agencies would otherwise be collecting royalties for (from ACTUAL criminal evaders of copyright law where REAL money is being lost).
 
I'm sure this move will make you tons of new friends around here as well.
 
So again... good luck with that.

batsbrew
i paid royalties (mechanical license) to Harry Fox agency for my 'bad moon rising' cover.
 
that's the way you do it.
 
the laws on selling covers is pretty straight forward.
 
recording them for fun?
who cares?
 

Exactly.

Beepster

Dave000
I really like most here... I was not concerned about anything here really.. and my apagoge is what it is and heart felt..
maybe you Coffee guys need to apologize...
anyway, yesterday went as expected and I got the data I was looking for so its all good...

 

So... what are you saying? You saw a high comment CHC post and decided to troll it to get clicks on your own song?
 
Wow. You almost got 20 whole listens out of the deal. You should be very proud.

So you are calling me a troll again... and NO the song went up way before I heard any of Coffee bands music...
and really? I believe that negativity will be bad for ratings and sales... "Molly" was a test all along and I said so in my "un edited" post with the link to "Molly"... I am testing... Nothing has changed in my plan to release an unrelated song early next year...   and I am mid, re mixing Molly and the help here is great!

Covers are only allowed to be posted in these forums if there is a mechanical license in place already, regardless of whether the person(s) posting the cover are making money on the streaming or not.  this is cakewalk's policy.
 
If you are a band who holds a copyright on a song which has been posted for streaming on this site, please contact cakewalk directly with your complaint including proof of your ownership of the song and proof that one of the forum members has violated the copyright by posting a streaming cover of your song.
 
making a post in the forum complaining in general about covers without proof of mechanical license does not provide any benefit to you or to the rest of the community.
 
If you have any other concerns, feel free to take it up directly with cakewalk.