Originally Posted By: trapper456
thought you didn't do covers?????


An interpretation of a public domain song (in the US earlier than Jan 1, 1925) gives the artist full ownership of the song, i.e. you own the copyright. SoundCloud, Youtube, other hosting platforms and all the streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, etc.) recognize this. You cannot claim ownership of a song not in the public domain and that you did not create - what in the industry is typically referred to as a cover song. You can license it but you do not own it. After ten years of creating and posting our fully copyrighted versions of public domain songs I feel we would’ve been informed were it not acceptable. Several of our PD songs posted here and created with BiaB have been licensed to large companies who obviously have no issues with our copyright.

Perhaps nothing but nomenclature.

Bud