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Aaron Green is the Vice President and director of sales and business development at EasySongLicensing.com. Aaron has spent the last 16 years helping artists clear tracks so they can legally distribute cover songs as well as leading a team that handles custom licensing agreements. Easy Song Licensing has helped over 60,000 customers – myself included. In the last 60 days I used them to clear two different covers, my Techno Syndrome cover (from Mortal Kombat) as well a Simon & Garfunkel Scarborough Fair cover. I had a great experience with them both times, so I invited Aaron onto the podcast to talk about covers, remixes, mechanical licensing, derivative works, sampling, public domain and NOIs.
You’ll Learn
- How to license a cover song
- The difference between a remix, cover song, and a derivative work
- Why you should be careful changing lyrics
- How to find out if a song is in the public domain
- How to license audio samples from other tracks
Resources
- EasySongLicensing.com – please mention that House Ninja sent you, they have a referral program and this helps support the podcast! 🙏
- Easy Song Licensing on Facebook
- Easy Song Licensing on Twitter
- PD Info – public domain information project
- Techno Syndrome (House Ninja Rave Remix) – one of my recent cover tracks, mechanical license provided by Easy Song Licensing
- Scarborough Fair (House Ninja Angry Cicada Remix) – my other recent cover track, mechanical license provided by Easy Song Licensing
