Re: Licensing a Song to Cover for an Album
An irrelevant story:
Back in the 70s, some friends of mine were recording an LP to sell at their gigs. This was back when it cost a small fortune to record, and another to press a few hundred copies of vinyl.
They wanted to do a Hoyt Axton song. They called the number for licensing. A little boy answered the phone, then called his father to the phone.
Hoyt listened to their request, asked a couple of questions, said he was likely to earn maybe ten bucks from it, so go ahead and don’t worry about the licensing.
I can’t imagine that happening today. A few years ago, some other friends recorded “Southern Cross” and made a video, and paid $600 licensing so they could put it on YouTube.
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