Doing a cover? Bow down to "The Royals"

Interesting, isn't it, that The Great God Google doesn't demand that Cuntwell, Basket Case, and the others have legal agreements authorizing COVER VERSIONS.

Most everyone else DOES. If you want to call attention to yourself by attracting fans of Aerosmith or Bieber or Cohen or Dylan with a cover version they'll need to hear (or even own), you have to waste a huge amount of time filling out forms, OR, pay about $15 PER SONG to have it done for you. 

The royal PUBLISHERS demand ROYALTIES, and guess what, in many cases they take a huge percentage from the songwriter, or even ALL of it. You, the cover artist are screwed and so is the songwriter. The PUBLISHER laughs all the way to the bank, and so do his co-conspirators who collect for him. Here's one "put your song on the Internet" company's gambit:

As the man from "Frenzy" used to say..."LOVELY...LOVELY...."

The publishers, the ones who sit in those fancy offices all day, smoking cigars and gabbing on the phone and having hookers come in for blow jobs, make $$$$ and do NOTHING. 

There's this company, HARRY FOX, and do they crack down on the Zinfarts of the world? Do they pay a Web Sheriff to stop abuses on the songs they own? Nahh. They just cash the checks and supervise the accountants who get big bucks from record, movie and TV companies...AND nickels and dimes from any struggling indie who wants to get noticed by Taylor Swift. As in, "Hey, I covered your song...and paid out more than I'll earn..." 

Notice GOOTUBE isn't mentioned in the above? No, you can download anything on GOOTUBE and you are certainly STREAMING it, but somehow it doesn't count. But take your music anywhere else, and you'll be forced to ACCOUNT FOR YOURSELF, and have your paperwork in order. Only then can you cover George's "Taxman" or Abba's "Money Money Money."