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Hi all, I'm planning to release a digital download of a cover song via CD baby. I've done some research and found that a company called limelight ( http://www.songclearance.com/)can register your song for clearance. You pay the loyalty fees in advance. Works out about $100 for 1000 download licences. Prices vary for more/less. Sounds reasonable to me. Anyone else released a cover song? I'd be keen to hear your experiences. Cheers James
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Hi James! I've heard of Limelight before and I almost used it to release my own cover of a Kate Bush b-side last year. I however didn't want to pay the fees because I wasn't sure if I would even sell enough copies of the song to even cover the cost, so I didn't release it. About a year and a half before I heard of Limelight, I simply registered my cover (for a different song; a French song actually!) with the Harry Fox Agency here in the US. You can visit their Songfile page at http://www.harryfox.com/public/songfile.jsp . I think I paid about $40 for 500 copies of the song, if I remember correctly. It's been a while. 
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James,
Here is one thing you can do that I did. A few years back I did a version of "Sixteen Tons" an old Tennessee Ernie Ford hit from the 50's. It was written by a guitar legend named Merle Travis. Merle has a son named Thom Bresh, who is also a guitar legend, was Jerry Reed and Chet Atkin's favorite guitar player, and performs worldwide.
Thom is actually a friend of mine and recorded one of MY songs, called "The Grand Opening." Since it was going to be $75 for him to liscence my song from me and me to liscence his song from him, we just both waved the fees. And since he probably sold more copies than I did, it was a complete wash.
So maybe you can do that. Get whatever artist you want to cover to do one of your songs and then you can do your version of their song. Of course, if they are dead, you might have a tougher time. LOL!
Stranger things have happened.
MAB
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Ann thank you for the suggestion. I will look into it before I go ahead with limelight. Cheers. Marc. It sounds like a great idea but on this occasion i don't think that will happen Good to remember though. Cheers James
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