{"id":95639,"date":"2023-04-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=95639"},"modified":"2023-04-25T17:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T16:22:52","slug":"affordable-song-licensing-explains-licensing-a-cover-song-for-indie-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/affordable-song-licensing-explains-licensing-a-cover-song-for-indie-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re proud to be an invaluable resource\u201d \u2013 Casey Cole from Affordable Song Licensing explains how licensing a cover song works for indie artists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Affordable Song Licensing offer the cheapest licensing service on the market. We spoke to founder Casey Cole to find out more about licensing cover songs. <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At RouteNote we were excited to recently partner with Affordable Song Licensing<\/a>, who make it easy for artists to purchase the mechanical licenses needed to release cover songs online. But understanding a cover song<\/a> mechanical license can be a struggle for unsigned artists \u2013 why do you need one, where do you get one, how much does it cost?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more, we turned to founder Casey Cole<\/strong> to help explain the licensing service, all about the day-to-day running of the company, and why we’re right to recommend Affordable Song Licensing for artists who distribute music through RouteNote<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hi Casey!<\/span> Tell us a little about your background, and how you came to establish Affordable Song Licensing.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My story of falling into cover song licensing is a bit serendipitous. Affordable Song Licensing<\/a> actually started by accident, back in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Cue some inspiring music\u2026)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When my daughter was born in 2013, I started recording lullaby renditions of my favourite punk songs. It wasn\u2019t anything serious. I just wanted to rock her to sleep in the middle of the night while listening to anything other than \u201cTwinkle, Twinkle Little Star.\u201d I posted the renditions online, and they got shared around the punk-parenting community, so I began to record lullaby renditions<\/a> regularly. I knew that in order to release future cover albums legally, I needed some help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, I attempted to use a third-party service to license over 100 of these cover songs. Let\u2019s just say it was not <\/em>an enjoyable experience. It was way more confusing than it needed to be. There were disagreements between the company and myself over pricing, discounts, publishing information, where they were sending royalties<\/a>\u2026 even their business address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those frustrating few weeks led me to learn how to obtain the licenses I needed on my own. While doing so, I discovered that the prices other companies were charging for licensing services were way<\/em> too high. I could easily help artists legally release their cover songs, and charge a fraction of the price these other companies were charging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So an awful customer service experience completely changed my life\u2019s course, and for the last seven years, I\u2019ve been happily helping artists legally release their cover songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Can you break down what Affordable Song Licensing does – and what the service can do for RouteNote artists? For the benefit of those who may not know why mechanical licensing is so important!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cover song licenses are relatively easy to obtain. There are steps set by copyright law that you need to follow, including the delivery of the cover song\u2019s information to the rightsholders of that song. Affordable Song Licensing follows those steps on your behalf for a small fee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RouteNote partners with Affordable Song Licensing to help artists distribute cover songs<\/a><\/blockquote>